I can rattle off a string of easy ports that would go down a storm, baffling in their absence, and I still hanker for that elusive 3DS version of Metroid Fusion, available only to those who purchased the console at launch, before its price was cut. The company is perfectly happy to slide into the pipes of its past and emerge with treasure, the better to squeeze a few extra gold coins out of us.

If Sony or Microsoft tried to persuade us that one of their exclusives would be gone forever, we would laugh. That evaporation, by the way, may drive more people to purchase Super Mario 3D All-Stars than the pure desire to revisit a trio of classics. Now, through the wide window of the Switch, in 16:9 and 720p, it’s all come flooding back. Back in 2002, after all, I was squinting through the heat and fizz of a 480p resolution, in a boxy format (our fondest memories of games are always in 4:3, with the periphery of our lives chopped off and channeled into a square frame). I did wonder, before playing the reissue-which is included in Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a limited-edition compilation, set to evaporate from the eShop at the end of this month-whether my recollection might be hazy, dehydrated by romance. Water, water everywhere, and not a drop out of sync. Nineteen years on, and it’s all as it was in my head-every mouth-drying shade. Then, of course, there was the silver-white spume, jetting from the gizmo on Mario’s back. The streams and lakes, which were a crisp, drinkable turquoise-and, when tainted with spilt paint, a suspicious lavender. There was the sea, clear, blue-tinted, and thin. The game was Super Mario Sunshine, and the water came in many flavours. Water, at the turn of the millenium, was the measurement of a developer’s visual muscle: can you massage a bathtub of crunchy polygons until they melt and purl? Many tried and failed (remember the wavering gloop of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex?), but Nintendo delivered the goods. More specifically, the water still looks like good graphics.

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