The story behind this Russian Nintendo mural revealed

We've featured this mural on the site before, but do you know the story behind it? It all starts when Moscow elected a new mayor and he wanted to beautify the city. That meant taking down big propaganda advertisements that had been plastered across various buildings. When those ads were taken down, some of the bare walls were quite an eyesore. Rather than let the crumbling walls depress people around town, a team came together to create murals like the one above. The thing is, they needed to get Nintendo's approval to do so...