"I was a kid in 1989, I got a gray box and there was a game packed in it was called Super Mario Brothers and it was really, really great," said Doucet. "I want to pay tribute to the company who really showed us innovation and quality consistently, and inspired us to make the game that we made."
Despite this dominance, the representative who accepted awards on LocalThunk's behalf tried to shout out the indie scene more broadly, calling out pixel western Arco by name.
The studio head behind 2021 Game of the Year winner It Takes Two also revealed the two-player adventure Split Fiction, out next March.
Host Geoff Keighley also acknowledged mass layoffs in the industry something critics lambasted him for, highlighting ongoing challenges faced by the gaming community.
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