Revisiting Yoshi’s Island, Nintendo’s leftfield masterpiece
The ultimate escort mission gets its due.
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For your weekend enjoyment: Paintings of an astronaut touring the world of pop
The subject of an artist’s work is the source of endless armchair psychoanalysis, but I’m not going to touch this one. The artist Scott Listfield has a fixation for astronauts, painting them over 130 times since the early 90s. You’ll typically find them gazing in blank-eyed wonder at pop icons like
Watch the history of videogame graphics from the perspective of a cube
The cube gets no respect. Well, until now. YouTube video producers The Hamster Alliance have edited together this wonderful montage of various videogames that feature the versatile cube. From Mario’s question block to the collapsing florescent walls of Super Hexagon, our four-sided friend has played
Nintendo announced a new Yoshi’s Island. Here’s hoping it’s completely insane
One of Nintendo’s shotgun spread of videogame announcements this morning included Yoshi’s New Island, which hopefully carries on the Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island tradition of being totally bizarre. There are quiet legions of Nintendo fans who hold the game above all other Mario titles. Miyamo
Pretend real life is designed by Nintendo with these Mario mass transportation maps
If you’re not a morning person, and lord knows I’m not, you know how loathsome that morning commute can be. There’s the onrush of dissatisfied people, the inelegance of multitasking from a smartphone, the spilt coffee. Whether your headed to midtown or Jersey, Robert Bacon has designed the subway ma