Awesome of the Day: Spain's Videogame Streets

Photo via the Arcosur Neighborhood Association

A lucky few residents of the city of Zaragoza, in northern Spain, will have the opportunity to live on the awesomest street since Lara Croft Way.

Residents of Arcosur, a new neighborhood still in development in Zaragoza, celebrated the first of a series of streets named after old-school videogame characters, CNN reports. Costumed fans looked on as everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber unveiled the street sign for Avenida de Super Mario Bros. (Super Mario Bros. Avenue, for our non-Spanish-speaking readers).

According to Arcosur Neighborhood Association president Antonio Almudi Miranda, residents chose to name the streets after video games in an online poll. A dozen of the neighborhood’s streets will bear the names of Sonic the Hedgehog, Space Invaders, The Legend of Zelda and other joystick-happy ilk (Calle Duck Hunt? Paseo del Q*Bert?). The remaining streets will be named after music composers and Spanish monuments.

The government-sponsored Arcosur project, upon completion, will contain 21,000 homes aimed at young people ages 20 to 35 looking to buy their first house. Mario, who turned 25 this September, would fit right in with Arcosur’s demographic.

Our only hope is that neighborhood association meetings aren’t interrupted by angry Koopas.

Check out Spanish news network A3TV’s coverage of the unveiling: