9 Respected Classic Games With Bizarre Assertions

8. Super Mario Bros. The linear platformer that transcended it's simple narrative through it's complex puzzles to become a global favorite. Yet the now well told fable of the heroic plumber transversing the 8-bit rendered world of Goombas and turtles, mushrooms and coins, stamping his enemies to the ground and growing to a giant like size all to rescue a hapless princess from a hideous yet shrewd horn-ed turtle is odd as it sounds when I phrase it like that. The hadouken-style fireballs and mushroom power-ups, in addition to the mechanized boot, vehicular implementation of dinosaurs and raccoon suits. However, while the setting for this puzzle is less extravagantly executed than, for example Portal, the twist of the dagger each time we are informed that the princess evaded our reach is worth the continuance of the saga.

 
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