By Ed Chatterton

A Nintendo megafan has spent around 40 years amassing one of the world's biggest collections of Mario memorabilia.

Steve Bagley, 45, first fell in love with the iconic video game character when he played Super Mario Brothers on the NES as a five-year-old boy.

Since then he has spent thousands of pounds collecting a 3,000-strong hoard of Mario-related mementos - including 500 games from across the franchises.

The collection features figurines, posters, autographs and antique playing cards as well as 50 Nintendo consoles, including every one ever released.

They are all crammed into a bedroom at Steve's house and he reckons it is one of the comprehensive Mario-related gaming collections in the world.

Steve's obsession with the little mustachioed plumber has seen him s

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