On this Doki Doki Panic podcast: four Mario games in one episode plus kaizo game design, Lost Levels, and SMB2’s contributions to Mario canon.
Famicom
On this Famicom podcast: translation vs localization, NES vs Family Computer, and your favorite imports that you’ve yet to play!
Classic developer and publisher Sunsoft returns with an announcement for 3 retro games seeing brand new releases.
Sit yourself down and let’s hear the forgotten story of The New Zealand Story, which you might know better as Kiwi Kraze.
Wrecking Crew (NES) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
The point of me writing on this game over 25 years after its initial release is not to determine if it’s a good game or not, but rather, to spark discussion on its context in the wider setting of digital play, how its heartfelt story might resonate with players across cultures and generations, what its themes are trying to communicate.
“As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.”
– Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats
