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Have you seen Disney Pixar’s latest movie release, Turning Red, yet? If not, you absolutely should — we might be a Nintendo-focused website, but trust us on this. Director Domee Shi’s feature-length debut is an utter masterpiece. It’s set in Toronto, Canada in the early 2000s, and manages to pull off a laser-focused period piece about what life was like as a teenage girl circa 2002: Choker necklaces, Tamagotchis, and uncontrollable crushes on boyband members dressed in all white? Yeah, that sounds about right.
It’s not particularly surprising that Turning Red’s pinpoint nostalgia is triggering other cultural throwbacks, and one of those is video games — which don’t really feature in the movie at all, unless you count Mei’s ever-hungry Tamagotchi. Here’s @REDZ_the_ARTIST‘s take on Turning Red X Super Mario Bros. 3:
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