🆗 Super Mario Poster UK — Mario Galaxy, Movie & Theme Song

Nintendo · Shigeru Miyamoto · 1985–Present · Three confirmed prints at 98types from £3

Super Mario is the most successful video game franchise in history and Mario is the most recognised fictional character in the world after Mickey Mouse. Created by Shigeru Miyamoto and first appearing in Donkey Kong (1981) before starring in Super Mario Bros. (1985), Mario has sold over 806 million games across all entries — making the Mario franchise the highest-selling in gaming history by a significant margin. At 98types, three confirmed Mario products are available: the Super Mario Galaxy print, The Super Mario Bros. 2023 Movie Poster, and the Super Mario Bros. Theme Song Print. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🆗 Super Mario Galaxy — The Finest Mario Game (2007)

Super Mario Galaxy was developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo and released for the Wii in November 2007. It received 97/100 on Metacritic — one of the highest scores ever given to any game — and is consistently cited by critics as the finest three-dimensional Mario game and one of the finest games ever made in any genre. The game sends Mario through a series of self-contained planets and planetoids in space, each with its own gravitational field, using the Wii's motion controls to collect Star Bits and reach Power Stars.

Galaxy's specific achievement is its spatial imagination: the planets are small enough that Mario can run around their entire circumference, and the gravitational mechanics allow him to run upside down, sideways and in configurations that create the specific sensation of being in zero-gravity without the disorientation of first-person VR. The game's orchestral soundtrack, composed by Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo, is the finest in the franchise's history — featuring a live orchestra that gave the space exploration a grandeur that contrasted perfectly with the whimsical visual design.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) — $1.36 Billion

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was released in April 2023, produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination in partnership with Nintendo, and grossed $1.36 billion worldwide — the highest-grossing video game film ever made. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, it starred Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong. The film was visually faithful to the game's aesthetic, referenced specific levels and mechanics from across the franchise's history, and provided the definitive cinematic entry point to Mario's world that the 1993 live-action film conspicuously failed to deliver.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie's commercial success confirmed that Nintendo's IP could sustain major theatrical releases — a conclusion that has significant implications for the planned Legend of Zelda live-action film confirmed to be in development at Nintendo.

The Mario Theme Song — The Most Recognised Game Music

The Super Mario Bros. Theme (“Ground Theme”) composed by Koji Kondo for Super Mario Bros. (1985) is the most recognised piece of video game music ever written and one of the most recognised short musical themes in any medium. The C major melody in 4/4 time, designed to be heard indefinitely without becoming grating, has been performed by hundreds of orchestras, recorded by thousands of cover artists, whistled by hundreds of millions of people, and used as shorthand for “video games” in media contexts worldwide. The Super Mario Bros. Theme Song Print at 98types represents this specific musical legacy.

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