I do not know how you're still sane. This is The King in Yellow Act II kind of textual brain-blight.
Any sanity I had has been dead for decades. Also note I wasn't stupid enough to seriously read through his attempt to summarize the history of Mario in part 1, mainly because his failed attempt to be wikipedia is boring and no one wants to read that.
I'll be kind and state the only funny thing in the sections before his manifesto is he spends a page and a half arguing with himself on why did he even make it. Besides proving his "Bookishness" by confusing Harry Potter with Twilight again, it's not that noteworthy beyond mentioning that if you have to rationalize in your own book its purpose then it's shit. I mean, I guess I can say that Bob thinks his book is unique. I mean it is, but only for his insane manifesto; the actual concept is just a written Let's Play of a game.
I mean, if you guys
really want to, I can actually go through his History of Mario. I found it dull as dogshit, but I think I could find a fleck of gold or two there.
Anyways, since Bob's being a whiny mentally ill cunt who again proves he has others fight his own battles for him, here's more of his retarded manifesto.
After ripping off one of my favorite school assigned book for his segment title, Bob throws some more nuggets that I feel get missed sometimes.
But for me and millions of other still-playing Generation NES gamers, the biggest thing happening was the Nintendo 64.
It's actually telling by the way how rarely he ever brings up the Game Boy, and again he believes that adults still playing Nintendo are just as mentally ill and obsessive as he is.
The path into this next generation of consoles had been an awkward one for the House Miyamoto Built and a trying time for their stalwart fans.
Fuck you Gunpei Yokoi and Yoshio Sakamoto. You heard Bob.
Sega’s Genesis had collapsed under the weight of poorly-realized peripherals, and their two subsequent consoles (Sega CD and Saturn) en route to 1999’s Dreamcast suffered from poor sales in North America.
Bob is such a gaming "nerd" that he forgot the Sega CD was a Genesis peripheral, not its own console. And Genesis still did amazing for Sega and its lifespan, but Bob is a retard who pins his success on the success of his creepy obsessions.
The Playstation was moving units but hadn’t quite landed a “killer app” of its own.
This of course is utter horseshit given that a lot of 3rd party developers left Nintendo during this gen, and this is the console that had both Resident Evil, Final Fantasy VII, and even platformers like Crash. But again, Bob doesn't pay attention to anything and downplays things that are not his obsession.
So it was announced with some fanfare that their next console would leap ahead into the 64-bit realm, and would use that new power to take video-games all the way into the third dimension... and, as ever, Mario would lead the way.
This is a statement I'm surprised didn't make the cut. This is Bob trying to really rationalize why Bing Bing Wahoo is cutting edge.
Reminder Bubsy 3D came out first btw, thus proving Bob's tardery wrong.
So anyway, Bob also remembers games had 3d and googles names to prove he totally knows this, leading to the
Most Insulting Thing Ever (tm).
PC fare like Wolfenstein and Dune sent players wandering down flatly-decorated hallways made from perspective-warped 2D surfaces
Yes. Bob fucking mispelled Doom in his book, and either thought it was the series name due to being that out of touch, or was too stupid to catch this.
You can start screaming now.
But the early images of “Super Mario 64” (in those days, gamer-culture really was so insular that no one thought anything of naming a game after its bit-count) that were slowly creeping out from the pages of Nintendo Power and the primordial form of the Internet promised something more: α ϝυʅʅყ-ɾҽαʅιȥҽԃ Mυʂԋɾσσɱ Kιɳɠԃσɱ, ҽxρʅσɾαႦʅҽ Ⴆყ α Mαɾισ ɯԋσ ҽxιʂƚҽԃ αʂ α “ʂσʅιԃ” ԃιɠιƚαʅ Ⴆҽιɳɠ? Tɾυʅყ, ƚԋιʂ ɯαʂ ԋσρҽ ϝσɾ ƚԋҽ ϝυƚυɾҽ ρҽɾʂσɳιϝιҽԃ!
So here's another hint that Bob was and is a retard who dreamed of joining the Mushroom Kingdom until he was 15, because here's probably the birth of his desperate desire to join a Matrioshka Brain and Bing Bing Wahoo for eternity.
Hope for the fucking future people.
Open exploration of a full virtual world, the dream of gaming from the beginning, would finally be realized... by a Mario game. As it should be. The future of video-games would remain in what I still, after all that time, felt were its rightful hands.
Here's more yandere Bob. Seriously, I don't even have to say more than that.
“Super Mario 64” was, of course, a thing of beauty. No challenger to SMB3 in my heart, of course, but a worthy successor - if Mario side-scrolling had peaked, for me, with The Tanooki Suit, then SM64 would be fine as the first lunge into a new era.
Again, since Bob didn't get Bing Bing Wahoo 64 first and it didn't make him popular again, then Bing Bing Wahoo 3: the Search for More Money is still his favorite.
Also I guess we know what Bob's fursona is now.
It was the first time in forever that a game was so aesthetically comfortable I was desperate to not finish it: just making Mario run and jump around the elaborately-constructed game world, exploring every cave and scaling every tower just to see what might be found... In my youth, I wanted nothing more than to spend hours simply inhabiting Mario’s world, and now I could.
What can I say that Bob himself didn't?
Oh I know: fucking go to therapy you anti-therapist!
And if such a massive undertaking as this (the game world was unprecedentedly huge, for the time) was merely the first step, one could only imagine what might come next. Let the others have their (undoubtedly!) short-term fads of raiding tombs and crashing bandicoots - Mario was back; and this was, we were sure, the future...
Bob, proving me right and desperate for people to ignore he still wants this, dreams of a future where he's put into a dream pod and can Bing Bing Wahoo for eternity in the Mushroom Kingdom.
No one, least of all Nintendo diehards awestruck by the experience of brawling with Bowser in 3D, could’ve guessed it at the time, but “Super Mario 64” would be the last, brief moment for at least a decade that a Mario game was the most important thing happening in video games.
Because of course the only reason Mario is good is because it's the most popular.
Riddle me this viewers, is Bob Quinton 1.0? Or is Quinton Bob 2.0?
Anyways, I think I'll do more later, since I need a slight break from this, especially since while we're getting to Bob's imagined low point, he'll get smugger later and that makes me shiver.