Videogames were once 2D only, with titles such as Pong, Pac-Man and Space Invaders making for easy controls. When a certain Japanese company started making 2D games based around a little Italian plumber called Mario, things started to change, and Mario became one of the first globally-recognised videogame characters.
But the legendary creator of those Mario games, which later turned into excellent 3D titles such as Mario 64, seems to be only now accepting the three-dimensional plane.
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