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A review by dalefu
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
3.0
A few fun stories, but ultimately it felt like a poor-man's version of Console Wars, a book I'd easily recommend reading instead.
There were several errors stated as fact, which any gamer or industry veteran will immediately recognize as false (the author claims Bowser is the villain in Mario 2...)
The final chapter, written at the height of Wii mania and before the embarrassment of the Wii-U, has the author claiming movement controls are here to stay and are the future of gaming with Nintendo as the king. An understandable prediction at the time, but clearly not how things ended up playing out, no pun intended.
There were several errors stated as fact, which any gamer or industry veteran will immediately recognize as false (the author claims Bowser is the villain in Mario 2...)
The final chapter, written at the height of Wii mania and before the embarrassment of the Wii-U, has the author claiming movement controls are here to stay and are the future of gaming with Nintendo as the king. An understandable prediction at the time, but clearly not how things ended up playing out, no pun intended.