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Is Nintendo's Technicolor dreamboat the last of a dying breed?

Nintendo's game catalogue has been dismissed as "kids" stuff by any number of people over the last decade or so, but that is, in a word, rubbish. They're games that can be enjoyed by kids, because they don't use violence or gratuitous swearing as a substitute for natural charisma. But as we know, the likes of Mario Sunshine or F-Zero GX are as frustrating as going on a camping trip with a bunch of hungry ducks, and thus clearly not primarily designed for sticky-fingered simpletons. Yet they're decried as such by insecure developers who view anything that's a brighter hue than a house sparrow as a threat to their masculinity. It's their loss.