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Supper Mario Broth, Twitter:

mario and steamroller

In 1994, Nintendo made a public event at a Dutch airport where 10,000 counterfeit Game Boy games they confiscated in the Netherlands were ran over by a steamroller, to send a message to counterfeiters. An actor in a Mario costume was overseeing the operation.

I retweeted this a few days ago, but I'm sharing here because I can't get over just how metal this is.

09/11/21