Why play a video game when you can drive Tokyo in a Super Mario Kart?

The new Super Mario Run game will take on Pokemon Go later this year but our writer goes one better - dressing up as the gaming icon for a go kart tour of Tokyo

Tyres screech. Children scream. Men cry " I'm causing a scene on the streets of Tokyo. Perhaps it's my shiny modified ride, all flashing indicators and gutsy exhaust. Or my cool ensemble of blue dungarees, tomato-red top and oversized cap. Or maybe it's my new moustache, dangling limply from my sweaty upper lip.

For today, and for one day only, just call me Mario. Super Mario, in fact - gaming icon and the planet's most-cherished Italian plumber. Over the next three hours I'm touring the neighbourhoods of Tokyo in a pimped-up, road-ready go kart.