Reggie Fils-Aime, the former President of Nintendo of America, has heaped praise on PS5’s Astro Bot during this week’s 2025 New York Game Awards.

The Regginator, as he was affectionally known as by Nintendo fans during his time with the company, hosted the awards on Tuesday evening, where Astro Bot picked up multiple gongs including Game of the Year. “So I have to admit, Astro Bot almost out did Nintendo at its own game,” said Fils-Aime.

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Fittingly, Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet revealed during his acceptance speech that he was inspired by the classic Mario games as a child.

Let’s not forget that even before PlayStation there were people making platformers. I remember I was a kid in 1989, Christmas, and I got a gray box and it had a game packed in, it was called Super Mario Bros. and it was really, really great.

So, we are in Japan, we are in Tokyo, they [Nintendo] are in Kyoto, but I want to pay tribute to the company who really put platformers [on the map] and showed us innovation and quality consistently, and inspired us to actually make the game that we made. And I’ve managed not to mention them, have you noticed? But you all know who they are.

You can read our full review of Astro Bot here.



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