Anyone remember those bygone days of yore (no, not 1690) but the embryonic years of video game development, the era of Space Invaders, Pac-man, Mario Brothers, Tetris and Sonic the Hedgehog?
I still recall sitting with my brother circa the early 1990s when we got a Nintendo, plugged into a delapidated black and white TV (we lived in relative penury) when we excitedly switched onto Mario Bros World One, Level One, and a fat little mushroom came rolling across the screen towards a tiny figure, a mustachioed cap-and-dungaree wearing Italian plumber, who grew magically in stature at the moment of consumption, but sadly did not manifest any of the traits of psychedlic magic mushrooms, which would have made for a far more trippy and surrealist experience altogether.
Mario, or his brother Luigi, had to save…
