Super Mario 64 was one of the defining games of its generation, system, and genre, but do its inner mechanisms hold up under scrutiny?
Month: June 2016
“Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”
-President Whitmore, Independence Day
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“Any feedback is good feedback”. It merely depends on what you choose to do with it.
How can I see things from a character’s point of view if they’re constantly breaking the fourth wall to spell out their point of view?
Nothing like playing a game based on a game that’ll make you start worrying about yourself.
“It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming…”
-Masahiro Sakurai
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.”
-Mark Amidon
“Japan was the first country to successfully make bipedal robots. They’re still the best in the field of robotics.”
-Hal ‘Otacon’ Emmerich
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Macho, macho man,
I gotta be a macho man!”
-Village People
“Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.”
-Shinichi Suzuki
“…so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the children the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, ‘I am guarding you—I am your support’…”
-Virginia Woolf
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ah, Konami. We want to love you. We really do. You’ve developed and published so…
“To me, Final Fantasy IV was the first game that made me cry.”
-Tomoya Asano, producer of Final Fantasy IV DS
