#6: Super Mario Bros 2 (Boss Fight Books, ebook). Of course I’m versed enough to know where SMB2 came from and why, but there were fun nuggets of design & Nintendo of America history sprinkled in with the more general history I already knew, and the author’s personal connection to SMB2. - ThreadSky

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bolnerap.bsky.social • 6 days ago

#6: Super Mario Bros 2 (Boss Fight Books, ebook). Of course I’m versed enough to know where SMB2 came from and why, but there were fun nuggets of design & Nintendo of America history sprinkled in with the more general history I already knew, and the author’s personal connection to SMB2.

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bolnerap.bsky.social•6 days ago

#7: Beezus and Ramona (read out loud with my daughter). What the… where is their mother? Why does Mom tolerate this? (Is she medicated?) Beatrice Quimby is a saint and deserves better. We did not buy this book for our daughter; if I’d read it as a child I definitely wouldn’t have brought it up.

bolnerap.bsky.social•4 days ago

#8: The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs. The resolution of the case was better paced and more believable than the first book, but the rest didn’t quite have the charm of the setup from book 1, leaving it similarly unsatisfying as a whole. Wonder if it came together later in the series.

bolnerap.bsky.social•1 day ago

#9: NBA Jam (Boss Fight Books) by Reyan Ali. A capsule post like this is insufficient. I enjoyed this book thoroughly; it was well researched, entertaining, and informative. I couldn’t help but think back to the ‘90’s and my own experiences with Jam while reading. Wholeheartedly recommend.

kosmologyb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Bloody hell NOA was incredibly smart to have the foresight not to release SMB2J. Man that would have bombed and tanked the game’s reputation

bolnerap.bsky.social•6 days ago

2J is rough… I played through it on Switch Online for the first time a couple years ago and it just didn’t feel right. I don’t mind challenge in my Mario stages, but that game is straight up spiteful.

kosmologyb.bsky.social•6 days ago

“What’s that? You didn’t take this specific path in world 7? BACK TO WORLD 1 WITH YOU”

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