SONIC, Mario and the cast of Streetfighter 2 made it on to the big screen as part of a day for retro gaming fans.
Classic nineties gaming consoles like the SNES and Megadrive might be dusty relics to children of today with chunky graphics and basic sound, but that hasn’t stopped an underground culture growing up around the 8 BIT masterpieces.
Enthusiasts have been meeting to game together for some time in Liverpool, but now they have come out of the bedroom in a big way and have burst on to cinema screens.