“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” -James Truslow Adams, Epic of America
Nintendo
While it might be chic to express displeasure at Nintendo nowadays, we’ve got good reason to this time.
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
—World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”
-Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Ode
“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
-Billy Shakespeare
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clark
Kirby is celebrating his 24th anniversary, in America, today. His first game was released in April twenty-four years ago, but didn’t get released in America until the first of August. I know. Little Kirby is in his mid-twenties already. They grow up so fast.
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Super Mario 64 was one of the defining games of its generation, system, and genre, but do its inner mechanisms hold up under scrutiny?
“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
“Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team”
-Pink Floyd
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Angry Birds, er… I mean Duck Hunt… was the game that no one wanted but everyone played, at least in North America.
“I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul.” -DW
“Some promises are meant to be broken.” -The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [tagline]
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
“These are two hungry dino-mights and they’ve got bubble fight’n fun down tight. You and…
I never dreamed that motherhood would be as simultaneously beautiful and terrifying as it…
Super Metroid is an iconic and foundational landmark in the history of gaming. Plumb the subterranean depths of this critique with me.
“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
-Victor Hugo
Super Mario World deserves all the accolades, praise, and awards heaped upon it for decades and here’s why…
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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