The long-lost console is being revived next February in cardboard and plastic form as a Switch accessory with Switch Online games.

Today is Super Mario Bros's 40th anniversary, marking four decades since the original game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. To celebrate, the Japanese gaming giant held a special Nintendo Direct yesterday and announced two big pieces of Mario news.

Whenever there's a Nintendo Direct in September, you can be pretty sure that it'll be a major edition of the showcase. Given that Friday's one was scheduled to be about an hour long and that Nintendo has a whole new console to put games on, it was already likely that there was going to be a lot of news.