Mario is probably the most famous character from all of gaming. But Nintendo have Nintendo revealed one important fact about Mario: his age! Just how old is Mario? Today, I'm digging through the evidence to find out!
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SOURCES
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101009201546/http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/mario25th/vol2_page4.jsp (Mario was originally called Ossan)
- https://famicoms.net/blog-entry-3687.html (Kenji Miki calls Mario an Ojisan)
- https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2020/09/27/three-shades-of-ojisan-defining-a-social-identity-in-japan/ (age of Ojisan)
- https://shmuplations.com/mario64/ (Miyamoto interview from 1996)
- https://themushroomkingdom.net/ssbm_j2e.shtml (Mario age Melee)
- https://www.nintendo.co.jp/nom/0510/interv/ (Miyamoto interview from 2005)
- https://twitter.com/hansmollman/status/1367486524749676546 (joke tweet)
- https://www.mariowiki.com/Family_Album_%22The_Early_Years%22 (Luigi being younger than Mario by a few years)
- https://www.mariowiki.com/Star_children (All the babies from Yoshi’s Island DS)
- https://twitter.com/World9Fantasy/status/1050400932507332610 (Extra info - Mario’s birthday)
CREDITS
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAr19vlkGw (Melee trophies footage)