Posted in gaming on 06/15/2010 01:38 pm by Wes
Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 may be a bastion of creativity and fresh ideas, a wealth of originality crammed into a lovingly-crafted 3D platformer. But behind that creativity lies an insidious case of theft. Nintendo clearly poured so much effort into coming up with new ideas, when it came to a chubby-space-faring guide, they had to reach back into gaming’s past for inspiration. And so we were given Mario’s new guide, Lubba, born from another blobular adventurer — though obviously a much more brodacious one.
Total bummer, Nintendo. Total bummer.
Posted in gaming on 10/29/2008 06:52 pm by Wes
Growing up tragically deprived of video games until somewhere around the age of 10, I have the unshakable feeling that I missed out on some essential skillset that I’ll never be able to fully make up for. Additionally, the intermittent exposure I had to gaming up to that point narrowed my enthusiasm for the genre to such a degree that I had no clue what I was missing out on.
It all started with Sonic the Hedgehog. I don’t remember why, or how, but but my first real encounter with console gaming was the original Sonic on the Genesis. If it had happened to be Mario, my retro gaming ineptitude might not exist as it does today. Alas, fate caught me in its insidious web.
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