‘Technically’ starting in February, but you get the picture.
Cast your mind back to the hazy days of 2013. In that year the Game Boy Advance SP was celebrating its 10th anniversary, we contemplated the squareness of the Nintendo 2DS, A Link Between Worlds brought us back to the glory days of Zelda. All of this, weirdly, took place in ‘The Year of Luigi’.
This official year-long event (actually lasting for 13 months, if we’re being really picky) was nominally about celebrating the 30th anniversary of everyone’s favourite player two since his debut in 1983’s Mario Bros. with a host of Luigi or Luigi-adjacent games and content launching across the year. This fun little marketing stunt had a distinct whiff of whimsy, which helped divert attention from a relatively sparse calendar as Wii U stumbled out of the gate and Nintendo ran into issues transitioning to the HD era that left some sizeable gaps on the schedule.
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