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The History Behind 'Super Mario Bros. 2,' Robot Folds Paper Airplanes

by Thomas Houston on April 1, 2011 at 07:30 PM

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The Secret History of Super Mario Bros. 2
"The idea was that you would have people vertically ascending, and you would have items and blocks that you could pile up to go higher, or you could grab your friend that you were playing with and throw them to try and continue to ascend," Tanabe said. Unfortunately, "the vertical-scrolling gimmick wasn't enough to get us interesting gameplay."
New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China
Though Google prides itself on giving engineers access to its code base to invent new products, it blocked the engineers in China because it said government officials might force them to reveal private information. Experienced engineers, who felt distrusted, could not work on new products and had to spend time on tasks like testing Google searches, something that less-qualified people do at other Google offices.


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