Post for: #Super Mario Bros ^{(4 Posts)}

Here we are, issue number one, and it starts off SUPER strong with the iconic cover art! Mario looks fantastic, but let's take a moment to appreciate the impressive clay rendition of Wart. They really nailed it! In another decade most game magazines would just be using official artwork for covers, and it always seems so bland to me. I love when artists in these old magazines were allowed to go weird and wild. And as we'll see inside, boy did they ever!

I meant to write this post up exactly a month ago, when I went to the movie spoken of in the title. But maybe this is good too, as I've now had time to think about the movie a little bit more since first seeing it.

So I decided now that things have settled down a bit, I wanted to get back to making videos with some kind of regularity. While I still have a scripted, longer form Let's Go Retro! episode half-done sitting on my computer, I wanted to try something a bit different and immediate. I tried this once before and the results weren't very good, and in fact I left the remains of the result to sit on…

The Great Giana Sisters was a platform game that came out for the Amiga and Commodore 64 computers back in the 80s. It borrowed heavily from Super Mario Bros, some boxes even having the tagline "The brothers are history". It wasn't long before Nintendo was made aware of the PC "homage" and forced them to stop selling the game, making it something of a sought after item for collectors. Fast forward to two years ago,…