This takes me back, way

Waaahhhh!!! Mario! How good were those games?? I remember sitting for hours, my eyes had gone all funny, but you know that you had to reach that end level, smack Bowser in the chops, and get the princess. But then you were told that she was mooching it in another castle! But what about Luigi, can't forget him!

DT

Many happy times....aaaaah. Feeling all nostalgic.

Luigi kind of rocked too, kind of in the shadows though wasn't he?

See, I *knew* Saima has style to spare. Always been a partisan myself. Wanna play some Mario Kart?

Only one round though, it makes me dizzy and subsequently pukey :(

bah! humbug! i was a sega boy all the way!

Sweet, I was just playing Mario Brothers the other day with my brother on the old NES (which we were going to sell on ebay) and the sad thing is I never beat any of the Mario games.

More cuteness:

Oh well, image tags don't work.

On the subject of video games, we had a guest lecture from the CEO of Elixir Studios yesterday. Quite a fascinating chap. At 12, he was the highest rated chess player of his age in the world. He wrote Theme Park before coming to university (which happens to be one of the top 20 games, in terms of sales, of all time). While out hunting for VC for Elixir at an IB, he was offered a £200k trader job on the spot instead. Anyway, I digress.... He was speculating that Nokia may enter the video games hardware scene. Some more fascinating facts on the computer games industry:

Microsoft's ad campaign for the X-Box is going to be the most expensive campaign ever for a single consumer item. The computer games industry is the biggest entertainment industry, bar none. The latest release of Zelda outgrossed Titanic.

To someone who hasn't played a computer game since Chuckie Egg on the BBC, these facts come as quite a shock.