Saturday 13 September marks 40 years since Super Mario Bros, a video game starring the world famous plumber, was released. Super Mario Bros came out in Japan on 13 September 1985 on a console called ...

Sega's Master System never won the US console war, but it quietly reshaped gaming worldwide, turning Europe, Brazil, and beyond into unexpected strongholds of the 8-bit revolution.

The genius of Mario and the video game's longevity is in its simplicity, says a superfan. Steve Bagley from Staffordshire remembers Super Mario Bros being released in 1985, when he was five years old.

This video showcases the restoration of a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the iconic 8-bit home video game console originally released in Japan in 1983 as the Family Computer (Famicom). The ...