It's Super Mario's birthday! He's 25 whole years old. Let's face it, he looks oldဣer. But while he's considering botox or a 3DS facelift, Nintendo's gone a bit sentimental and put up his first four﷽ games in their All-Stars incarnationfor re-release in Japan as Super Mario Collection on October 21. Here (thanks to Official Nintendo Magazine), are the box and its wonderful contents.
Above: The 'special pack' as theJapanese text says does indeed look rather special. Sadly it's Japan only
Above: Sorry, Mario, but your dimensionally-proportional press shots are in another castle
Above:A screenshot from the game select screen. Makes us all feel old... except for Meiks
Above: Just look at that Famicom - like someone pitched the SNES as a pre-school toy. In the seventies...
13 Sep, 2010
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Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazi🉐ne, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Champions🙈hip and Treasure Island Dizzy.
