Within my adult lifetime, video gaming has become a powerful entertainment force. Nintendo made its first video game console available commercially - for arcades. In the early 1980s, Donkey Kong came along and that started the home market shift. Super Mario came out in 1985. Game Boy and Super Nintendo became household toys in the 1989-1995 era. The next milestone was 1996 - 2000 with Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Colour eras. Today we're in the Nintendo Switch era.
The fastest time to complete Super Mario Bros. game was four minutes, 58.56 seconds. How many Super Mario world records are there? At Record Setter (a competitor to Guinness) there are 365 listings. At Guinness World Records, there are records like first person to complete Super Mario World blindfolded. This one gets a lot of attention and is listed in quite a few places.
"Japanese gamer KIRAMEKIDEDODAI became the first, and subsequently fastest, player to complete the game blindfolded in 2016, racing through the course using audio cues and counting strategy to finish in 14 minutes and 46 seconds."
The highest price for the 1985 Super Mario Bros in its original packaging was $114,000 in 2020. It holds the record for the most expensive video game sold at an online auction.
There is a Super Mario Wiki entry that lists all the Guinness World Records by year. You can scroll through hundreds of them HERE. I guess I scrolled through, as it seemed a bit boring o me. Clearly at least 45 million unit owners might disagree.
Q: What do you call a Mario Bros. character on strings?
A: A Mario-nette. Q: Why did mario cross the road?
A: He couldn’t find the warp zone.
Q: Who builds everything in Mario Bros. world?
A: The Hammer Brothers. | 
