Mario is undoubtedly one of the icons of the video gaming world. Millions of people around the world can immediately recognise the Italian plumber and his popularity is still increasing as he enters his 4th decade as a video games star. Mario’s initial outing was in the 1982 timeless arcade game Donkey Kong. Since that first early outing he has gone on to star in a huge collection of Mario video games most famously on the NES, SNES, Nintendo gamecube as well as Wii systems. Super Mario Bros are played by folks of all ages in just about every country on the face of the planet. They’ve sold countless copies and have changed Mario into the cultural symbol he is today. The fantastic gameplay of Super Mario Bros Games has spawned several imitators however it has never been bettered. From the first single screen escapades of Donkey Kong to the sideways scrolling gameplay of Super Mario Bros on the NES Mario video games kept getting much better and far better. Nowadays Mario games can be played in 3D on the Nintendo wii console and his legions of followers continues growing. Nowadays it seems that each video games character makes an appearance in a movie at some time. Nevertheless Mario was the 1st to be on the large screen when Bob Hoskins played him in the 1993 film Super Mario Bros. The film was a huge success and told the tale of Mario along with his brother Luigi rescuing Princess Daisy from King Koopa. It is hard to measure the impact that Mario has had to the world. One of the things he can undoubtedly be acknowledged with is bringing video gaming to the awareness of a much broader audience as well as sparking a love of video games in untold numbers of people.