Oxy, you're missing the point. He's not referring to parodies as in the Mad magazine "Today we make roadkill of The Road Warrior" things, even if the video choice made it seem like that. He meant lighthearted takeoffs of those works.
Contra is like Rambo, but even more aggressive and manic.
Doom is Dante's Inferno, if it was more like the last third of Aliens.
Star Fox is all the flight battles of the Original Star Wars Trilogy, just with even more crazy enemies than the AT-ATs (which was a flight battle because of the snowspeeders).
Mario is in a variation of Wonderland, in that everything is whimsical and follows its own rules instead of the rules of reality.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
