Super Mario Bros

Super Mario Bros was a video game created by Nintendo in the 1980s. The Eighth Doctor once played Super Mario Bros in a pub in Bradford during the 1980s. (PROSE: Halflife)

In 2011, Rani Chandra described shutting down a nuclear reactor as "James Bond meets Mario." Clyde Langer responded by saying that he was excellent at Mario. (TV: Sky)

The virtual Twelfth Doctor likened the inhabitants of the Shadow World finding out they were a simulation and committing suicide as a result to a hypothetical scenario in which "Super Mario realises he's inside a video game". (TV: Extremis)

The real Twelfth Doctor later cited Mario Cart as an example of something to think about in order to "think like a child". (COMIC: Harvest of the Daleks)