An ode to Mario Sunshine, the only true Mario world

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An ode to Mario Sunshine, the only true Mario world

Added: 03.09.2015 18:17 | 8 views | 0 comments

KSD writes: A hospital bed is either no place to play Super Mario Sunshine or the best place to play Super Mario Sunshine. For me, it was the latter. The games colors could not be contained by the gray frame of a 12-inch CRT; they spilled out with abandon, tides of red and yellow and crystal blue against the antiseptic pastels of the pediatric wing. It was the last week of the summer before 8th grade, and I was recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Through the fog of painkillers I remember feeling a pure, sweet gratitude for the gifts that had been bestowed upon me by the joint efforts of Nintendo and my mom. The Wavebird in my hands, which let me play from far away; the handle on the console, which had brought it to my room; the game that smiled above me, offering escape. I felt permanently, helplessly unclean; here was a game in which cleaning is the best and only thing you can do. Even more than that, I wanted to be in a different place; here was a game that offered so much...