Have you ever wondered why some video game characters wear
trousers and others don’t? Or pondered the connection between a character’s toned, muscular derrière and their level of dexterity?
In
Things I Learned from Mario’s Butt, video game critic Laura Kate Dale brings backsides to the foreground, analysing dozens of posteriors and asking the important questions: Has Mario let himself go? Do Link’s small buttocks hold him back? When he dies, is Pac-Man eaten by his own caboose?
