About thirty seconds before the family sat down for my wife’s birthday dinner, things got tense. Really tense.
As I was stacking the pizza boxes on the table my seven-year-old kid, the middle child of three, came into the kitchen. He was utterly devastated. His feisty little sister had robbed his handheld video game and she was not giving it back. In no uncertain terms, he insisted this madness was resolved before we ate. Read More...
The reviews for The Super Mario Bros. Movie have hit, and the consensus is mixed.Gizmodo says the movie “stinks” whileInverse says the movie “jumps high but can’t reach the stars.” Rotten Tomatoes has yet to release an actual score for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but based on its coverage of the existing reviews, there’s a real chance this movie is going to get a rotten score, at least from the critics. Read More...
By | May 23, 2023
(Nintendo) Released in 1985, Super Mario Bros. began as the last gasp of the cartridge era for Nintendo and became the game by which everything that followed was measured. Mario has had three decades of monumental success, with a movie, a few cartoons, and of course, a myriad sequels that have kept players glued to their consoles. How this simple 2-D platformer came to life and inspired pretty much every game for the next 35 years is the story of a small group of creatives who poured all of their talent into 31 kilobytes of data while turning glitches and limitations into part of the gameplay. Read More...