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Skipping the Tutorial: What It Says About How You Learn

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300

The new game loads, a text box shows up with the A button blinking, and you're already pressing "skip" before reading the first line. I do it. You probably do too. Twenty minutes later you find out there was a dodge command nobody told you about, or rather, one they did tell you about and you ignored. Skipping the tutorial is one of the most universal gestures in video games, and it says a lot about how we handle anything new.

Super Mario Bros. turns 41: the level that saved gaming

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0300

Forty-one years ago, on 13 September 1985, a black screen lit up on the Famicom with the words "SUPER MARIO BROS." and changed everything. Nintendo had had the console on the Japanese market since 1983, but it was missing the game that would make the whole thing make sense. That day, it arrived.

What almost nobody imagined was that this 256 KB cartridge would save the entire video game industry.