Before there was a Grand Theft Auto, or a Halo, or a Half-life, or a Warcraft, or a Morrowwind, or a Kirby, or a Fire Emblem, or a Sony Playstation, or a Microsoft XBox...Before we knew about an X360, or a PS3, or an XBox live, or a PSP, or an E3...before there were lemmings, or cows, or sheep, or "ownage" (whatever the f*ck that means,) or even Gamespot...before there were message boards, or lists of friends, or gaming unions, or gaming clans, or gaming teams, or gaming fans...before there was all of the extraneous stuff that gets in the way of playing video games for fun (does anyone remember what that is?) instead of playing video games as a full time job...

...there was Mario.

And he will be here LONG after everything else has lived, and died, and faded away.

Just had to say that.