If you’ve ever spent a rainy afternoon in a world of pixelated clouds and cheerful plumbers, you’ll know the magic of a Nintendo game. There’s something peculiar about it, a kind of bright and bouncy happiness that feels both modern and old fashioned like a school fete run by robots. In their heyday, Nintendo’s games didn’t just entertain they burrowed into your imagination, creating whole worlds where pipes led to magical realms and mushrooms made you taller – a feature one wishes the local greengrocer would implement.