Super Mario runs from left to right by popular demand: study

DID YOU KNOW: There's a reason for everything, even as to why Super Mario runs from left to right.

We could have a fundamental bias for visual motion from left to right, according to researchers in the UK whose new study could explain why the stars of popular side-scrolling videogames such as the Super Mario series move that way. 

The research involved inspecting thousands of items in Google images says lead author and psychologist Dr Peter Walker of Lancaster University.