Super Mario Brothers will be to the eighties what Second World War was to the forties, except good. Although it is only 1985, I can also safely say that this game will be more significant than any future wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined…. Mario is going to so popularize Japanese culture in the U.S. that The Vapors’ hit song “Turning Japanese” will cease to be about a sex act and will come to describe the literal surgical transformation of Americans into Japanese citizens.
The New Yorker on the, er, slightly overheated reception of The Beatles: Rock Band.
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