First use of a platform videogame in brain study
Who
Super Mario 64
Where
Japan ()
When
A 2013 study carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Charite University Medicine St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus in Berlin, Germany, concluded that playing videogames can increase your brain size. Scientists had 23 adults play Super Mario 64 on a Nintendo XXL for 30 minutes each day for two months and outlined "increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills".