For years I carried around a fear that I would “spend too much money” on video games and as such I would him-haw around for months before buying a game that I wanted. This is probably related to the long-since-overcome fear of buying the highest quality paper towels. However, a few years into my Nintendo Switch ownership (circa ’21 or ’22), I came to an important realization: I needed to stop agonizing over the number and cost of games I wanted to buy and instead let myself buy whatever caught my interest.
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My Latest Trip to the Mushroom Kingdom
My first few trips to the Mushroom Kingdom happened early in life on the Super Nintendo but the real anchor of my Mario nostalgia came in 1996 with the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64. Later in adulthood, I’d been unsuccessfully searching for a suitable nostalgia supplement until the Nintendo Switch and Super Mario Odyssey arrived in 2017. SMO and several other Switch titles, like the short but fun Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, have really captured the essence of my original Mario experiences. In short, my visits to the Mushroom Kingdom are a personal tradition that stimulate a highly reliable nostalgia and happiness circuit in my brain and I’m always itching for a fix.
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