At least Waluigi is culturally relevant meme. Geno is completely obscure outside of his weird, unusually vocal fanbase.

A lot of older fans had crazy nostalgia for Pit because Kid Icarus was one of the marquee titles in the early NES/Famicom lineup, with a really catchy OST. Also, he was one of the stars of a terrible Saturday Morning cartoon.

“Keep your politics out of reviews of games please.”

How the hell did Watership Down not make this list? An animated film featuring cute (and not so cute) rabbits dying in various and brutal ways.

I loved BG&E, but my god, this new one is going to flop disastrously for all the money and effort they’re putting into it.

That flick-spin single-handedly ruined NSMB Wii for me. Beyond annoying.

“Series X? There’s more than one of them? Which one is this?”

“My favourite consumer brand has a complicated naming scheme, so that means I’m smart.”

I love those old school beat ‘em ups, but I honestly have no desire to revisit that whole gross-out/’tude era of the ‘90s.

The best description I can say is that Japan sees Nazis through the same lens that Star Wars fans see Storm Troopers. It’s not part of their “reality”, and they’re emotionally disconnected from the actual brutal context. But hey, that aesthetic.

Funkos for $2? You’ll get a better value shoving a toonie* up your butt.

Funkos for $2? You’ll get a better value shoving a toonie* up your butt.

Ten grand? That’s a bargain for an SGI workstation back then!

This is a huge problem in anime as well. The people producing the medium are largely dorks who grew up consuming the medium. People who had minimal real social interaction, and whose view of humanity is based on that narrow slice of media which they consumed.

You’re getting old. For me at 12 the slow-roll, pre-internet SNES launch was the most exciting thing in the world. Things progressed along at a fever pitch in the early ‘90s as tech matured. The hype was still there for the Dreamcast and PS2, but everything following that the hype decreased bit by bit. PS5 is neat,…

I guess Nintendo doesn’t want the Mario Universe getting completely out of hand like the Sonic Universe.

The cartoonish “Italian” accent probably had more of a “kawaii” factor than the “Brooklyn” one. But ya, I remember those terrible Mario cartoons/shows, though I prefer not to remember them. RIP Lou Albano.

Bingo. Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl.

The original design plan for Donkey Kong was for it to be a Popeye game, but they couldn’t get the rights. (They did get to make one after DK was a smash hit, however.) So Mario’s inspiration sprung from a comic, just not a Japanese one.

“The name Mario sounds Italian, but he isn’t Italian.”

I see the Toronto douchebro culture extends to the videogame scene.