A review by caseyvalhalla
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan
funny
informative
fast-paced
3.5
sort of a 3.5 rounded up I guess?
Mr. Ryan makes some factual errors in some specifics that are outlined pretty exhaustively in other reviews; my main complaint is the presumptive male-centric view of gamers (apparently girls didn't play video games until Nintendogs came out! cue facepalming) and laughable presumption that adult millennials ever stopped playing Nintendo games voraciously. I guess that conclusion can be excused by being more than a decade out of date by this point, though.
Otherwise interesting tale of Nintendo as a company and a brand from a Mario-centric viewpoint.
Mr. Ryan makes some factual errors in some specifics that are outlined pretty exhaustively in other reviews; my main complaint is the presumptive male-centric view of gamers (apparently girls didn't play video games until Nintendogs came out! cue facepalming) and laughable presumption that adult millennials ever stopped playing Nintendo games voraciously. I guess that conclusion can be excused by being more than a decade out of date by this point, though.
Otherwise interesting tale of Nintendo as a company and a brand from a Mario-centric viewpoint.