The Fat Plumber Thread

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Mario - The High Jumping Fat Plumber Hero

Mario and Sonic are the world's two most popular video game characters and have been respectful rivals since the early days of video games.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is the first official crossover between them and the franchise later became best-selling gaming character cross-over franchise ever.
The total number of copies sold for the Wii and NDS versions of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games surpassed 10 million in Europe and North America alone.
Also, the total number of sales for Wii and NDS versions of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games surpassed 8 million copies in Europe and North America (as of 10/2011)

List of Mario x Sonic crossover games

2007 - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
2008 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
2009 - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

2011 - Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
2013 - Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
2014 - Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
2015 - Super Mario Maker

2016 - Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
2018 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
2019 - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020

Articles : http://segabits.com/blog/tag/mario/

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IOC eyes France to host 2030 Winter Olympics and Salt Lake City in 2034

Salt Lake was alone in the 2034 race to bring the games back to Utah, which hosted the 2002 Winter Games, and the American bid's support from all levels of government up to President Joe Biden was praised Wednesday.
"He would guarantee all the expenses," said IOC member Karl Stoss, who chaired the Olympics panel assessing potential candidates, adding "and they stand really in a strong, strong status behind these games."
A French bid uniting the snowy Alps region and the French Riviera resort Nice came together only in the past few months to compete with Sweden and Switzerland for ...

Article : https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/39005776/ioc-eyes-france-host-2030-winter-olympics-salt-lake-city-2034