‘Feel the energy’: How Super Nintendo World fuels young at heart
I have stormed the castle of Bowser, the king of the Koopas, hundreds of times. When I was 6 or 7 years old, I raced past messages from mushroom-capped mascots who told me that the princess was in another castle, and I vanquished King Koopa for the first time.
As the years went by, I laid siege to different castles with Koopa kids and kin. My weapon? A gray controller with a familiar brand name: Nintendo.
It never occurred to me in my childhood that a fortress with Bowser’s likeness – much less the Mushroom
