Dan has Super Mario fever while struggling with Netflix figures

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It is March 2026 and I have Super Mario fever. I first played Super Mario back in around 1988. Back then no one really knew what a Nintendo or a Super Mario was – my parents had bought an off-brand video game machine (which looked a bit like what would become the Super Nintendo) that had a weird plastic converter in which to shove Nintendo cartridges in…