{"id":87682,"date":"2019-03-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/its_that_time_of_year_again_happy_mar10_day"},"modified":"2019-03-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T10:00:00","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-again-happy-mar10-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/10\/its-that-time-of-year-again-happy-mar10-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s That Time Of Year Again, Happy MAR10 Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c718d11fd2e34\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c718d11fd2e34\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Happy MAR10 Day from Nintendo Life!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c718d11fd2e34\/happy-mar10-day-from-nintendo-life.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c718d11fd2e34\/happy-mar10-day-from-nintendo-life.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Happy MAR10 Day from Nintendo Life!\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We hope you&#8217;re feeling all jolly and festive, folks, because today is Mario Day!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, as we&#8217;re sure a lot of you lovely readers will know by now, Nintendo has adopted 10th March as being a special day for its famous moustachioed mascot. Why? Well, because &#8216;MAR 10&#8217; looks a bit like &#8216;Mario&#8217;, and a better reason isn&#8217;t required.<\/p>\n<p>The Mushroom Kingdom&#8217;s most distinguished resident has been a busy man over the last year, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_tennis_aces\"><strong>Mario Tennis Aces<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle_donkey_kong_adventure\"><strong>Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: Donkey Kong Adventure<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\"><strong>Super Mario Party<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/new_super_mario_bros_u_deluxe\"><strong>New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/mario_and_luigi_bowsers_inside_story_plus_bowser_jr_s_journey\"><strong>Mario &amp; Luigi: Bowser&#8217;s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.&#8217;s Journey<\/strong><\/a> all releasing since last year&#8217;s Mario Day.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_maker_2\"><strong>Super Mario Maker 2<\/strong><\/a> just around the corner, and the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a>, and the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\"><strong>Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/strong><\/a> release also on Switch already, you definitely won&#8217;t be short on options for celebrating the special day. <em>He really is everywhere, isn&#8217;t he?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you missed the news earlier this week, Nintendo is celebrating the day in style with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/nintendo_celebrates_mario_day_with_lots_of_mario_game_discounts_north_america\">lots of discounts across a variety of Mario games<\/a> on 3DS and Wii U in North America, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/get_double_gold_reward_points_when_buying_top_mario_switch_games_this_weekend_europe\">claim double reward points<\/a> from lots of top Mario games on Switch in Europe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mario\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ae4fec95afdcb\/mario.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ae4fec95afdcb\/mario.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>So, we want to know you plan to celebrate the special day. Are you hosting a huge Mario Party (excuse the pun)? Are you playing through some of his greatest adventures? Did you not even realise this was a thing and are therefore just getting on with your day as normal? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope you&#8217;re feeling all jolly and festive, folks, because today is Mario Day! Yes, as we&#8217;re sure a lot of you lovely readers will know by now, Nintendo has adopted 10th March as being a special day for its famous moustachioed mascot. Why? Well, because &#8216;MAR 10&#8217; looks a bit like &#8216;Mario&#8217;, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}