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Super Mario Bros
You may wish to consult Mario for other, similarly-named pages.

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 [+]Mark Michalowski, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).)

Maxie liked to play Super Mario Brothers 3. (PROSE: The Door We Forgot [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

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 [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 5 (CBBC, 2011).)

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 [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017).)

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 [+]Richard Dinnick, The Many Lives of Doctor Who (Titan Publishing Group, 2018).)

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Mario Kart is a spin-off racing game series in the Super Mario Bros franchise. It's misspelled as "Mario Cart" in Harvest of the Daleks.

Dan Castellaneta narrated the notoriously ill-received 1993 live-action film adaptation.

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