Being the third best-selling NES game ever further proves that point. In my view, it is the perfect video game and certainly the best in the entire Nintendo library. This is perhaps nowhere truer than with one of its purest champions, considered widely (and by this author) to be the greatest video game ever: Super Mario Bros. It also gave us a wealth, and I mean wealth, of iconic classics: games that have never and will never cease to be beloved. One that rebuilt a decimated industry, breathed new life into the corpse that gaming had become, and became the gold standard and platform for decades of gaming to come. One which controlled a hoard of quality games. The impact of Nintendo Switch remains to be seen, but if it ends up anything like the NES it will change the world. The NES is now the same age as me again (lucky NES), released in North America on October 18th 1985. This week, we got our first look at Nintendo Switch, coinciding with the Nintendo Entertainment System turning thirty-one.
In terms of the art of video games, a classic is a game that has never finished saying what it has to say. “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
