[Following his looks at Pong, Breakout, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man, writer and theorist Eric-Jon Rossel-Tairne now examines the inexorable rise of Shigeru Miyamoto, from Donkey Kong through Mario Bros to Super Mario Bros.] It is 1981. Somewhere between testing and mass release, interest in Nintendo’s Space Invaders clone Radar Scope had cooled. It’s not that the game was poor. It’s just that six months earlier, Pac-Man had changed the arcade landscape, and in the narrowing …

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Analysis: From Donkey Kong To Super Mario Bros – The Inexorable Rise Of Miyamoto