The Top 7... fictional holidays

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Who needs Christmas when you've got the Star Festival and Life Day?

Guess which ones we’re going to take a look at right now?

Sadists aren’t left out of the festivities, however, as Bowser and his minions almost immediately show up to ruin everything in their usual fashion. As an armada of flying galleons descends on the terrified celebrants, the village is laid to waste in a hail of ginormous cannonballs and what appear to be freeze spells. Fires rage, the Toads run around in circles screaming about doom and Mario is hurled into space, seemingly defeated. It might not be the happiest holiday the Mushroom Kingdom’s ever seen, but it’s certainly one of the most memorable.

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.