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Despite what you may have seen in films like Tron or Jumanji, it’s impossible for humans to jump from their couches into a video game. Or, at least, it was. That’s the experience Universal and Nintendo are hoping to recreate with Super Nintendo World, the brand new themed land that opens at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA on February 17. It’s the first of its kind in North America and the second in the world.Ahead of the opening, io9 got a walkthrough tour of the new attraction. Located on the lower lot of…

Wolfgang Petersen on the set of Air Force One, with Gary Oldman.Photo: Sony Pictures (Getty Images)If you grew up on a steady diet of Hollywood blockbusters over the past 40 years, you surely know the work of Wolfgang Petersen. He made us tense up with Das Boot, made us fly with The NeverEnding Story, made us hate coughing with Outbreak, and made Harrison Ford the president in Air Force One, to name only a few. Petersen’s films entertained and changed a generation but now, sadly, that’s over. The talented, Oscar-nominated…