Bonus! Mario Turns 40, The Perils of Game Making, Bad Headlines (Patreon)

Casual conversation gets turned into "news" and context is lost in the process. It's a tale as old as time, but it's happened a few times lately, let's talk about it. As a part of that, what is a "AAAA" game or a "AAAAA" game, anyway? Is it a real thing? Is anything a real thing? Also: Super Mario is 40 and marketing video games is real hard.