‘Super Mario Maker’ a brilliant entry in the ‘Super Mario’ series and the beginning of something greater
When handing over the keys to their magical Kingdom, Nintendo wisely took its time to make sure it got everything right – and they did. T
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Brick by Brick, The House Mario Built: The Super NES Days
There are about eight Mario adventures that could easily be listed within the lexicon of the greatest games ever made, and Super Mario World and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System sit on that list. Super Mario World helped define the 16-bit era, transforming the classic Mario formula into …
How ‘Super Metroid’ channeled ‘Aliens’ and became the first feminist video game
In his not-quite seminal but still very good 1998 essay “F/X Porn,” David Foster Wallace dissects the lasting legacy of James Cameron’s mega-blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day. (Well, more accurately, he examines the enduring stain left by Cameron’s film on the modern action movie, but whatever.) The essay doesn’t offer much in the way of …