Although North America identifies Nintendo products from 1995 as reflective of this change, 2001 is the first mwaka of the Neo-Nintendo period to dispense with narrative convention and Nintendo-Formalist style for a sustained period of time. 2006 is the mwaka that concluded what had been, for Nintendo, a stylistically progressive sequence of featured released video game - defined in this makala as the Neo-Nintendo period - that broke with the hyperrealist conventions most commonly associated with the video game company's output. It is this critically neglected sequence of video games, comprising...