Jimquisition
Old Man Mario

Jim Sterling | 13 Aug 2012 16:00
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Everybody knows Mario, most people love him, but is Mario being Mario enough anymore?

Recent Mario games have jumped headfirst into nostalgia without offering much in the way of dynamic new content, while younger platform challengers upstage the king at every turn. It's worked for Nintendo so far ... but how much longer will it be before we can all see the grey hairs in that iconic black mustache?

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Jim Sterling is the reviews editor for Destructoid.com and a game media gun-for-hire who appears regularly at GamePro, GameFront, GamesRadar and pretty much everywhere else. He has a tendency of making the Internet very angry at him, but he's alright sometimes.