We were having a conversation at work the other day about Mario and my boss was fondly recalling playing Mario and sonic at the Olympic Games with his grandkids and he was saying things like ‘it was always beneficial to have some of the hedgehogs on your team’ and ‘tails was great at fowling and that creepy old guy with the long legs was good at footy in general’ and ‘the crocodile was great at javelin must be his natural upper body strength’. I know Mario and sonic at the Olympic Games has existed for a long long time but the imagery was just fantastic here. There’s also just something great about hearing people who don’t typically play video games talking about video game characters