Super Mario
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Warm up those throwing arms, because it’ll take more than a button tap to chuck those Koopa shells.
Super Mario, Pokémon, and Zelda series salutes among the winners in global design contest.
Intricate process creates characters that look as cool now as they did in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.
Mario rises in one corner, E.T. gets buried in another. This handy infographic explains it all.
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