Every year for the past decade, Bowser fans all around the world have officially celebrated "Bowser Day" on August 4th (8-4). Today marks an amazing ten years that this monumental occasion first started!

Why August 4th (or 8-4)? Well World 8-4 in the original Super Mario Bros. video game was where you originally saw (the real) King Bowser Koopa in all of his glory! From there, you did the right thing and sacrificed yourself as Mario so King Bowser could win and rule the Mushroom Kingdom, riiight? What you did not do is use the axe to cut down the bridge he was standing on to knock him into the lava, RIIIGHT? =p

This is a day to celebrate everything and anything related to that wonderful character that is King Bowser Koopa! Play your favorite Super Mario game that has him in it! Watch a movie that has him in it (maaaybe not the 1993 live action film though!) For the talented out there, draw some fan art of him or maybe write a fan fiction! Maybe even rock out to some Bowser music (his tunes just jam man!)

So how big has Bowser Day gotten over 10 years? Well, aside from being a social media frenzy year after year, an entire Bowser Day website was launched this week! What a pleasant surprise this was! The Bowser Shrine has run uninterrupted for over 15 years straight, but for the grand majority of that time, it was really the only Bowser or Koopa related website out there. Under my "Bowser Fansites" section on my Links page, I had "The lack of links in this section makes Bowser cry" written at the top. There was one Bowser website still running hosted off Angelfire, but it has not gotten an update in over 20 years!

With the addition of this new amazing Bowser Day website, I think I'm going to remove that note about there being a lack of Bowser links for now! A long time ago, there used to be some pretty good Bowser and/or Koopa fan sites, but they would either one day freeze on updates and never get another, or just go dark one day. I may be pretty skimpy and lazy with my updates, but I promise I will never let The Bowser Shrine go dark!

The new Bowser Day website mostly has old and new fan art submitted for the occasion, but I love how it's all organized in one place that's neat and tidy. Honestly the website is pretty impressive!

Now, just remember that every day should be Bowser Day, but we just make it all official-like for one day of the year! =p

Summary:

• 1 link added to the Links section under "Bowser Fansites"