Staring longingly at the controller, he suddenly had an epiphany. Now, you might be saying that the three of them could just all take turns playing, but as anyone who squabbled as a kid with a friend or sibling about sharing a two-player alternating game knows, that’s hard to do without plenty of maturity, which isn’t exactly our strong suit.īut they say necessity is the mother of invention, and what Seiji needed was a way to avoid having to go back to work. Seiji’s heart sank as there were now two people who could pull rank on him, potentially bumping him from the gameplay rotation entirely. ▼ “I, too, would rather be playing classic video games than working.”

Or at least he was, until the unexpected arrival of SoraNews24 founder and president Yoshio. Unfortunately, it’s two-player alternating, not a co-op, which means Player 2 has to wait for Player 1 to die in order to get a turn, as well as endure the mild indignity of playing as less-popular plumber brother Luigi.īut since Go technically outranks him, Seiji was resigned to waiting patiently as Luigi. Still, Seiji’s gaming-at-work hopes weren’t completely dashed, since the original Super Mario Bros., like a few of its sequels, is actually a two-player game. As he slipped into the meeting room, he noticed that the head of our Japanese-language editing department, Go Hatori, was already firing up the Famicom. Unfortunately, Seiji’s plan soon hit a snag. ▼ When life presents you with an opportunity to play 8-bit platformers while you’re on the clock, you take it.

When there isn’t a conference going on, though, the meeting room sometimes becomes the video game room, and during a recent shift our reporter Seiji Nakazawa decided to sneak in a Super Mario Bros. SoraNews24 headquarters is divided into two rooms, the general-use office, and the meeting room. No one needs to wait their turn to play as Luigi thanks to an epiphany about the Nintendo classic.

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