20 Incredible Gaming Trivia Facts You Need To Know

1. Nintendo Owns The Rights To Two Mario-Themed Pornos

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Nintendo inexplicably owns the rights to two Mario-themed, Ron Jeremy-starring porn films, Super Hornio Brothers and Super Hornio Brothers II, which were produced at the same time as the official 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. adaptation.

Fearing damage to their precious brand, Nintendo surmised that the simplest way to resolve the issue was to just buy the rights to the films and then halt their distribution, which they did.

And for the next 15-or-so years, Super Hornio Brothers was only whispered about in the darker corners of the web - that is, until digitised copies began to find their way online.

 
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