
Playing Mario for the first time, I remember watching the demo play before inserting a quarter and giving it a shot myself. However, now that I spend a good bulk of time writing about those intangible factors that make a game addictive, I’ve also developed an eye for what game designers do to make a game appealing and accessible to players.

I never really knew why I liked a game, but I always knew that they either clicked with me, or they didn’t.

Suffice it to say I have decades of video game knowledge, and ever since I started writing here, I’ve begun looking at video games in a whole new way. Pac Man and Galaga, but we don’t need to get into that, or what a rotary phone is today. I’m also old enough to remember tabletop Ms. Look, I don’t know how old you are, but I’m old enough to remember playing Vs. Hell, Disney is even rebooting my life story, giving my journey of becoming a freelance writer the gritty reimagining it deserves. I don’t know how true that would be today with Disney owning the intellectual property of almost everything in the pop culture lexicon. In the 1990s, one survey showed that the Nintendo mascot was more recognizable than Mickey Mouse. Mario’s popularity is not simply massive. First off, naturally, is the original Super Mario Bros. Each week, we’ll take a unique look at each game in the series, and discuss aspects you may not have considered. Hot on the heels of our dive into The Legend of Zelda franchise, we now jump, stomp, and dive into the most iconic and popular video game franchise ever, the Super Mario Bros.
