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Someone I spoke to once said "I hate Nintendo because it's all kiddy games!! Xbox do realistic games that are about real life. Why don't nintendo do that?" I replied that that was EXACTLY why I love Nintendo so much. They craft entirely new worlds in which I can escape the dramas, tragedies and intrigues of real life. Playing Mario, Kirby or Zelda games, for an all too brief couple of hours, real life ceases to exist and I am in a blissfully surreal alternate world. Nobody captures this feeling of never ending youthful naievite and innocence for me like Nintendo. Like the Disney is to children's movie, Nintendo is to video game, and possesses and shares a magical quality that no other company can replicate.

And to those who don't understand that - I pity.