Though not talking about Super Mario Bros, the side-scrolling masterpiece, nor about Donkey Kong, the game about climbing pylons to thwart an evil gorilla. This is actually talking about the arcade game Mario Bros, where you...kick turtles, crabs and sometimes bees while trawling through the sewers. Yeah, that one. In the infancy of video games, it was perfectly acceptable to pitch an idea such as you are a big dot eating smaller dots and sometimes ghosts and people would stand up and slowly clap in awe. But when you're a plumber killing turtles and angry lobsters was pitched, surely something like Asteroid sounded a bit more exciting by comparison. Either way though, the game became a smash hit, as it turned out running around a dirty sewer with inexplicably angry amphibians roaming the pipes was a blast.
A young man with a hairy face. Will often tell you that winter is coming before retreating to his mancave to play video games with a wooly jumper at the ready, just in case.
