Mario used to dress like he was part of a posse that John Wayne had just rounded

1980's Mario was thicc, but woke took that away from us

Nintendo Power let readers send in their high scores and Steve Wozniak dominated the category for so long that they told him to stop sending in scores and give someone else a chance

Woz responded to his ban by simply reversing his name and continuing to mail in his high scores

my favorite story about Nintendo Power and Tetris is the fact that Steve Wozniak was obsessed with Tetris and kept writing into this kid's magazine to brag about his high scores, he even sent in a picture bragging about the high score he set while flying on the Concorde

there are a lot of good games that were published on the super nintendo but if you grew up after the console's heyday you might be intrigued by the system but not know where to start

well here you go, games with enduring appeal that can still be enjoyed by anyone with an appreciation for retro

listened to the episode of the retronauts.bsky.social podcast where they examined the SNES era and since they concluded the podcast with a list of their top SNES games i feel inspired to do the same

B TIER
illusion of gaia
ogre battle
secret of evermore
secret of mana
shadowrun

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i just recently re-discovered the retronauts podcast so this is incredibly timely