Amazon is shipping random products in Super Mario boxes to celebrate...

• Amazon will ship products in Super Mario Bros. boxes at random throughout November.
• The boxes celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Nintendo franchise.

• Ordering Nintendo products on Amazon doesn’t increase your chances of getting one of the limited edition boxes, Nintendo said.

• Nintendo posted a picture showing what the three boxes look like.

• You can find more stories on the Business Insider homepage.

Amazon is shipping random products in Super Mario Bros. boxes to celebrate the video game franchise’s 35th anniversary.

The e-commerce giant will ship the brightly colored boxes on a limited basis throughout November – and Nintendo said that “buying Nintendo products doesn’t increase the likelihood of receiving a Super Mario Bros. branded box.”

An image released by Nintendo shows three designs that highlight different eras of the game.

Amazon has also launched a website that tracks the history of Super Mario Bros., from the original game in 1985 to pre-orders for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Rage, which will be released on Nintendo Switch in February.

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Nintendo celebrates the franchise anniversary with the release of the Super Mario 3D All-Stars pack for Switch and an updated re-release of its original Super Mario Bros. game that up to 35 players can play simultaneously.

In October, Amazon launched its first augmented reality shipping boxes. Users scan a QR code on a box to bring up a customizable AR version of the item that remains on their phone’s camera as they move.

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