PARIS, April 3 — Hollywood is having its second bash at sprinkling some movie magic on the Super Mario Bros video game franchise, three decades after the last attempt. The...
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“He is a pop culture icon known to everyone, young and old,” Morihiro Shigihara, a writer and former arcade manager, told AFP. “The only other video game character with a claim to be more famous is Pikachu,” he said, referencing the hero from the Pokemon franchise.So he surprised the world by rocking up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio — the official handover ceremony for Tokyo 2020 — dressed as Mario.
“I wanted to show Japan’s soft power to the world with the help of Japanese characters,” he told reporters afterwards.Mario was given perhaps an even stranger tribute by the authorities in the Spanish city of Zaragoza in 2010 when they named a new street Super Mario Bros Avenue.Real-world empire
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