Thanks to the Americans writing dates incorrectly and bad licence plate style spelling we get to celebrate Mar10 day.

I’m not complaining really, it’s nice to have an excuse to talk about that legendary Italian plumber Mario.

I’m not going to lie, and what I’m going to say may be considered by some as heresy. However my favourite Mario game might just be the GameBoy classic Super Mario Land.

This along with Tetris, and Zelda Links Awakening were games I played a lot at the time.

You’ve read about my Doom memories from my time working in Byfleet. But before Doom back in 1990 when I first starting working there my lunchtimes were playing on my GameBoy. During that time Donkey Kong joined the games I’d play to death.

Despite not finishing Super Mario Land (I got close) it still has a special place in my gaming memories.

But today I’m not firing up my GameBoy with Super Mario Land in it.

I’m going to celebrate Mario Day by playing my Super Mario Bros Game & Watch.

Laters.