Once upon a time, Nintendo made new worlds. It was known as the World of Nintendo which was Nintendo’s peak. This is why kids said they were not playing video games, they were playing “Nintendo”.
This video from the 80s proves it:
Yes, that is Bill O’Reilly there at the beginning and end.
Note how the video keeps saying the Nintendo players entered another world. Note the flash of “joysticks and gizmos”. Note the display of NES games where EVERY GAME WAS BRAND NEW (or a sequel to an NES game). There was once a time where games had new content instead of recycling content from previous incarnations.
Who is Mario? Why, he is us. Mario was the original Mii. It’s a shame Nintendo destroyed him with voice acting and making him a ‘citizen’ of Mushroom Land instead of the average day plumber who slips into a pipe and enters a fantasy world like Alice did a hundred years ago.
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