Nerdville Crossing

  Welcome to the Golden Era of Neo-Retro Gaming by The Common King      When I set out to write this blog post, it was only after I had randomly sat down with my 14 year old son and my wife to play Super Mario Brothers Delux on the Nintendo Switch.   We played all at the same time, as the game allows, and it was absolute mayhem.  I, without any understanding, had chosen the "easy" playable character.  A weird, little, purple thief of a thing, I ran around the stages largely untouched.   Meanwhile my son and wife were losing their minds as they found themselves burned, crushed, zapped, eaten, hammered, presumably bitten by turtles, mushrooms, and ghosts, as well as being blown to bits at every turn.        To say that this was a really fun time as a family would be an understatement.  It truly was a special moment.  We, having no idea where we had left off years earlier, stumbled our way into actually beating the game....