Writing this from the UK where I’ve been on a spring break trip for the past week or so, today I went to the Science and Industry museum in Manchester and they had a video game thing, so of course I wanted to go to that. Turns out among many better and cooler games, they had a Phillips CD-i running Hotel Mario and you know I had to play that. I can now finally say, even though everyone already knew this, this really does suck! Gay Luigi, Toasters, and Lotsa Spaghetti aside, the actual game really feels like it drags on, with each hotel being so much longer than it has any right to be. Mario, when jumping on enemies, just feels irritatingly out of my control. Just a slog of an experience aside the cutscenes. Moral of the story, don’t play Hotel Mario but I do recommend the museum I played it at. Power Up is super cool.