160: How Will Nintendo Celebrate Mario’s 40th Anniversary?
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
4.7 • 544 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 160 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! Mario Day draws near and this year is Mario's 40th anniversary so we're going to talk about what we think Nintendo will do and how they will celebrate this milestone. This is a big year for Nintendo overall so we do think they'll do something to commemorate the occasion. Also in this episode, we rank the best Mario games by decade. We also talk about some games we are deep into right now and react to Nintendo removing a game on NSO in our news segment. We wrap it up with questions from our amazing Patreon community. All this and more is coming right up!
0:00 - Its-a me!
13:41 - How Nintendo will celebrate Mario's 40th anniversary and Mario Day!
42:11 - Ranking the best Mario games by decade
50:20 - Games we are playing (Monster Hunter Wilds, Yakuza Pirates in Hawaii, TMNT Tactical Takedown, Avowed)
1:16:54 - News news news
1:30:10 - Questions from our Patreon subscribers
Patreon shout-outs!
- All Hail the Final Boss - Aaron Hash
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| 0:46.8 | Today, it is almost a Mario Day, |
| 0:51.4 | and it happens to be the 40th anniversary of Super Mario Brothers. |
| 0:57.3 | So we thought we come and tell you what we think will happen on Mario Day and on Mario's 40th anniversary. |
| 0:58.5 | It's a me, it's us, it's a Mario's birthday. |
| 1:01.5 | It's a Mario's birthday. |
| 1:02.8 | And Mario Day is right around the corner. |
| 1:04.9 | The timing of this is so interesting because we have the Switch 2 direct coming up in a |
| 1:10.5 | matter of weeks. We're within less than a month of that now. And it's a big year. I mean, they have the Switch 2 launch, the 40th anniversary. They're definitely going to do something with that. So it's kind of interesting thought exercise. Like, how are they going to piece all this stuff together? Yes. Because things are going to get really busy for them really soon. |
| 1:28.3 | That's the thing. |
| 1:29.3 | Like Mario Day and sort of these other Mario things that are happening is important because |
| 1:35.3 | Mario is like the marquee star, but they have so many other announcements around Switch 2, |
| 1:43.3 | around the lineup of the launch lineup for Switch 2 |
| 1:47.0 | that they need to get out there. |
| 1:49.0 | So they're gonna be, they have, they got some stuff to talk about. |
| 1:53.0 | You might be a bit more spaced out this year, but we'll get all that in a second. |
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