Next time you're feeling frustrated while playing Final Fantasy 14, I hope you take comfort in knowing director Naoki Yoshida isn't perfect at playing video games, either. In fact, he might have never had his illustrious career at Square Enix if it weren't for failing at the original 1983 Mario Bros. game on his boogery friend's Famicom.
"Failing" might be the wrong word here – it implies 10-year-old Yoshida had a choice in what happened to him. But really, he was bamboozled by a boy lucky enough to have some fancy new technology: an at-home console.
