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in FilmsWho are the Italian-American plumber brothers who star in a 2023 animated film based on a popular video game franchise?
Answer: Mario and Luigi are the main characters of Nintendo’s Mario video game series, which debuted in 1981 with Donkey Kong. They are also the protagonists of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, a 2023 computer-animated film produced by Illumination, Universal Pictures, and Nintendo.
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in TechnologyWas Super Mario Bros. available on the first Nintendo console in the US in 1985?
Answer: The Nintendo Entertainment System was first released in North America on Sept. 27, 1986. It featured 17 launch titles, including Super Mario Bros. Masayuki Uemura, who developed the Nintendo Entertainment System that started a global revolution in-home gaming, died on Dec. 9, 2021. He was 78.
