Donkey Kong, re-imagined as a
riff on Angry Birds. Duck Hunt, where you dispatch waterfowl
with a slash of a fingertip. Flappy Mario.
Please, God, no.
Nintendo’s said that they’re not “releasing
Mario on smart devices.” One investor in the company really
wants them to. So, of course, the folks at Red
Bull’s video game site had to go and imagine what Nintendo’s famous games
would look like in touch-centric form.
https://kotaku.com/crazy-nintendo-investor-wants-us-to-pay-0-99-for-highe-1531915823
The jokes (they ARE jokes, right?) present six Nintendo favorites in
lowest-common-denominator form, transposing characters and stages into the
templates of top-selling mobile games. They’re interesting to think about but
only for, like, a minute. If such a future ever comes to pass, we can only hope
that the charm and masterful game feel that Nintendo brings to its games on its
self-produced hardware translated to other companies’ devices.
