Super Mario - Jeff Ryan [109]
I dedicated this book to Bill Rudowski. Who is he? He’s who won the book dedication auction, with all proceeds going to Child’s Play, which donates toys and games to children’s hospitals. Thanks to him, Laura Whalen, Ed Byrne, Jimi Cullen, Andrew Melzinek, and everyone else who stopped by eBay for a bidding roller-coaster ride.
The various people I’ve met over the years at Nintendo—from the Redmond and Kyoto branches and their Golin Harris press office—have been very generous and helpful, arranging interviews, providing review copies of material, touring me around the facilities, even setting up an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. But Nintendo is a particular company, and one of those particularities is not cooperating with the press when it comes to books. So most all of that access dried up when I told them I was working on something longer than a magazine article. My time spent embedded in the Mushroom Kingdom was thus unofficial.
I’ve thanked Cindy Ryan for her editing before, which she’s done for my writing projects since before we were married. She’s also responsible for buying me our Wii, defeating the Pit of 100 Trials, outracing me without the aid of any red shells, and winning several NES games in the Animal Crossing village of Qwerty. She’s also brought two princesses into our lives, Sylvia and Holly, which makes her twice the hero Mario is. I would say more wonderful things about her, but I’m running out of ways to couch them in video-game argot. Here’s one more: my life is super because of you.
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