He’s never said he owns a Nintendo console … but he’s never said he hasn’t.
about his casting coup, Pratt talks about his earliest memories of the series. “There was a coin-operated laundromat near my house and it had, the original arcade game,” he says. “Oh, I loved that game.” He shifts his eyes upward, miming a look of nostalgia. He goes on to say that, despite loving that game, “I never had a quarter” to play it. He then goes on to recall stealing money from a wishing well to play the game .
In this slightly mangled bit of syntax, does dreaming about playing the game mean you … didn’t actually play it? Except maybe once with a stolen quarter? Did you otherwise look longingly at people who did play it and perhaps refused to let you join in as Luigi in two-player mode? The arcade version of., it turns out, existed for a few short years leading up to 1990.
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