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Nintendo turned Mario into the ball and made a whole game out of that sentence.
Mario Pinball Land is a strange hybrid where exploration, boss fights, and platformer framing are all routed through pinball tables. It is awkward in places, but the sheer willingness to make Mario himself the physics object gives it a memorable identity.
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Bowser as a final pinball boss is exactly the sort of dumb-great concept this game exists to justify.
Why it matters
It matters because it captures Nintendo's old habit of letting Mario front bizarre genre experiments that no sober market analysis would prioritize.
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