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After Nintendo squeezed all the life out of Donkey Kong after the launch of the NES, they gave Donkey Kong a much-needed vacation... that lasted about 8 years. During that period, Mario became the face of Nintendo leaving Donkey Kong wondering what to do next. He had to face the fact that the hiatus was needed since the series was becoming stale. Well, in 1994, he teamed up with the people at Rare and rediscovered…
Reviewing a game as influential and as important as Super Mario Bros. is, in many ways, pointless. This 2D platformer from Nintendo is responsible for the revival of an industry and if Shigeru Miyamoto never conceived it, gaming might have never gone mainstream and some of our favorite games would never exist. Sure, that's quite a bold statement to make, but this was the game that attracted millions of people to…
After Nintendo squeezed all the life out of Donkey Kong after the launch of the NES, they gave Donkey Kong a much-needed vacation... that lasted about 8 years. During that period, Mario became the face of Nintendo leaving Donkey Kong wondering what to do next. He had to face the fact that the hiatus was needed since the series was becoming stale. Well, in 1994, he teamed up with the people at Rare and rediscovered…
Back in 1986, back when Ronald Reagan and Wiliam "Refrigerator" Perry roamed the Earth, Nintendo released a game that reinvented the adventure genre and set a precedent for future games to come with its open-ended world and exploration... and female protagonists. Metroid, despite its flaws, was a hit among gamers and we were looking for more. Yes, we did see a sequel for the Game Boy, but the handheld's limited…
