{"id":532061,"date":"2026-03-12T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532061\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:36:17","slug":"watch-mario-day-event-in-new-york-draws-270-people-dressed-as-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532061\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Mario Day event in New York draws 270 people dressed as Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 12 (UPI) — A GameStop store in New York gathered 270 people in Mario costumes to attempt a world record and celebrate the Nintendo character’s holiday.<\/p>\n

The GameStop store located in Manhattan’s Union Square counted 270 participants<\/a> at its event on Tuesday, which was known as Mario Day due to the date, March 10, looking like the plumber’s name when stylized as “MAR10.”<\/p>\n

“He’s a reminder of people’s childhoods and a carefree time, and you know people still play video games well into adulthood,” GameStop Director of Communications Nicolle Robles told WABC-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Each participant was awarded a $5 GameStop credit, and Ross Martinez, who dressed as the solid gold Mario from New Super Mario Bros. 2, won a Nintendo Switch 2 console for being crowned the “best dressed Mario.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Organizers said they beat the previous record<\/a> of 230 Marios, which was set in China in 2010, but may not actually receive an official Guinness World Records title because the record-keeping organization did not have an adjudicator present to perform an official count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 12 (UPI) — A GameStop store in New York gathered 270 people in Mario costumes to attempt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,24256,690,61,21691],"class_list":["post-532061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gamestop","tag-mario","tag-technology","tag-world-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}