“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continued to rack up coins at the box office, leading ticket sales for the third straight weekend, as the animation hit neared $1 billion after just 18 days in theaters.
Almost exactly 35 years ago, Super Mario Bros., the iconic video game from Nintendo, debuted — making a high-jumping plumber named Mario the Japanese video game company’s equivalent of Mickey Mouse.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a good chance you heard how popular The Super Mario Bros. Movie was. It smashed all sorts of records and ushered in a whole lot of sales for Nintendo.