Jon Irwin - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

I'm a teacher and writer with over a decade of experience writing long- and short-form essays, columns, profiles, interviews, and reviews. My work has been featured in Billboard Magazine, Down East: The Magazine of Maine, GamePro, Longreads, and The Atlantic, among other fine (and less savory) publications. I'm a frequent contributor to Kill Screen and Paste Magazine. My first book, Super Mario Bros. 2, is about the videogame Super Mario Bros. 2. and was published by Boss Fight Books, a small press out of Los Angeles. I live in Atlanta but root for Detroit.

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• Nintendo Switch Just Quietly Released the Toughest '90s Sci-Fi Action Game

  By Jon Irwin| Inverse Verified I hate Mega Man. As a kid, when the NES originals were shiny and new, I would go to my friend’s house and gape at the colorful robot action as his older brother plowed through level after level. The lack of smooth scrolling meant each new screen held a surprise. And often, that surprise ended with a life-ending pit of spikes, the Blue Bomber falling and exploding into a slow-motion firework of 8-bit shrapnel. Fun to watch? Oh yeah.

  By Jon Irwin · Inverse

  Jun. 19, 2024

• 10 Years Later, Nintendo’s Most Underrated Platformer Is Still A Step Above The Rest

  By Jon Irwin| Inverse Verified Donkey Kong has had a long and fruitful career as a mainstay of Nintendo’s playable menagerie. After early rounds of spaceships and generic cowboys, DK was the first named character of Nintendo’s modern era, one that now boasts the most valuable stable of I.P. this side of Disney. But it was his Donkey Kong Country games, first developed by Rare and then Retro Studios, that gave him a franchise of his own to run and jump through.

  By Jon Irwin · Inverse

  Feb. 17, 2024

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