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Original Story:<\/strong> [Thu 12th Mar, 2026 04:05 GMT]:<\/strong><\/p>\n Super Mario is currently celebrating his 40th anniversary, and one other announcement for MAR10 Day this week is a new Tetris 99 Maximus Cup and Grand Prix.<\/p>\n As highlighted in the MAR10 Day celebrations on Nintendo UK’s website, this new Grand Prix will take place next month between 3rd April 2026<\/strong> and 7th April 2026<\/strong>, and allows players to unlock a special Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 in-game theme when they collect over 100 points<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/p>\n If Nintendo shares a video of theme we’ll provide an update. To participate, you’ll need to have an active Switch Online subscription. This theme follows Galaxy 1 + 2’s release on the Switch last October. These games have also received some enhancements for the Switch 2. Their return leads into the Super Mario Galaxy Movie next month.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Nintendo hosted a Direct for the upcoming movie, sharing a new trailer and some additional announcements. It’s also made a new Galaxy-themed item available on the My Nintendo Store in North America.<\/p>\n Will you be participating in this Tetris 99 event? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n [source nintendo.com]<\/p>\n \tRelated Games<\/p>\n \tSee Also<\/p>\n \n Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Original Story: [Thu 12th Mar, 2026 04:05 GMT]: Super Mario is currently celebrating his 40th anniversary, and one other announcement for MAR10 Day this week is a new Tetris 99 Maximus Cup and Grand Prix. As highlighted in the MAR10 Day celebrations on Nintendo UK’s website, this new Grand Prix will take place next month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6339,5157,5697,4229,1747,165,3791,185,6338,5854,5814],"class_list":{"0":"post-6343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-console-gaming","8":"tag-99s","9":"tag-celebrates","10":"tag-crossover","11":"tag-event","12":"tag-galaxy","13":"tag-mario","14":"tag-special","15":"tag-super","16":"tag-tetris","17":"tag-theme","18":"tag-unlock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}