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Why Super Mario Bros. 3 is still a masterpiece Before Mario had a World, he had the biggest stage on Earth – and played the part to perfection.
Talking about Super Mario Bros. 3 risks devolving into a numbers game. It sold over eighteen million copies worldwide, another million on its Virtual Console re-release, who knows how many if you include pack-ins/re-releases, and still stands as one of the biggest sellers ever twenty-seven years later. Released in Japan on October 23, 1988, it wouldn’t see America till 1990 or Europe till 1991, but Super Mario Bros. 3 was always white-hot. In Nintendo’s western television advert, thousands of children chant ‘Mario, Mario, Mario’ as the camera pans back, the figures morphing into Mario’s face and then the North American continent. Such was the anticipation and profile for this 8-bit…
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Super Mario fetishist offended by CoD’s ‘war fetish’ Bob 'Moviebob' Chipman triggered again over a game he thinks is right-wing and pro-war.
After the initial trailer was pummeled with YouTube dislikes harder than the feminist Ghostbusters, the new Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare commercial has almost made the game worth buying — for reasons other than the Cod 4 Remastered bundle. The combination of witty social commentary and a star-studded cast (Michael Phelps, Dany McBride) has garnered praise where the actual game does not. But as with everything providing a modicum of joy in this cruel world, someone got offended. Namely Bob “Moviebob” Chipman, a notorious lefty movie and video game culture critic with an unhealthy obsession with Mario, who once called the 90s console war his own personal Vietnam. It's nice when CALL OF DUTY's creepy war-fetishism marketing drops from…
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