Actually you did pretty good topic, too bad it has been mostly unnoticed. Actually i find it strange, that guy at your age doesn't like Mario, because it looks "kiddy", but that's propably because you're "new" to gaming.
You got one Mario fan to 30+ group, when John Lucas arrives. His favourite genre is games made by Nintendo.
By the way, what i find interesting, is that there's two completely diffent group playing shooters, people above 30 play WW2 shooters (starts to be a really boring genre) and people at age 10-20, who play sci-fi shooters (as milked as the WW2).
Me: Male 28 (you can count it to 29 if you want, since it's 1 month to my birthday). And have been gaming for two decades.
Favored current game would be Super Mario Galaxy.
I don't have any genre that i would favor over any other, except i'm not in to shooters or sports games. But that's propably because they both are so milked genres, with similar games, which are mostly made as quick cash-ins. I do like some shooters, like Doom (had it on SNES), and loved Turok (N64).
Sports games i like, have been mostly football games, propably the best in that genre have been Konamis International Superstar Soccer, also the N64 game was great, but they managed to spoil that series in the 6th generation consoles. Although, i'm planning of buying Mario Strikers Charged some day. Oh, and Wii sports is definately a great sports game.
From racing games, F-Zero, Wawe Race and Mario Kart (series for all) are definately my favourites, and the first Gran Turismo.
Action/adventure i would say, that Zelda and Metroid series are the best (Prime 3 tops all FP games on any platform with it's controls). I loved 2D Megamans.
Favourite RPG:s would be Pokemons. They usually are a bit too easy, but they have the most advanced fighting mechanics.
Figting games today are only the Super Smash Bros. Thir genre has been really funny, basically everytime a new idea have arrived, old ones have felt like crap. First figting game i played was Urban Champion, felt like crap after Street Fighter, then Mortal Kombat tops it, after that Killer Instinct, then Virtua Fighter, and the last one was (is) Super Smash bros.
I do find a lot of games i want to play from Virtual Console, some of what i have played earlier and some what i haven't yet played.
Basically i'm open to new ideas for games, while constant repetition gets me bored.
Looking at my favourite games, it's no wonder i have Nintendo consoles.
Anyway, i was pretty much bored with gaming before Wii and DS. But somehow they got me exited of gaming again.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
