I was at Gamestop for about 10 minutes, and the amount of people interested in New Super Mario Brothers 2 astounded me

[Slimebeast]

Khuutra said:

Slimebeast said:
I hate Mario but I loved all those golden coins in the E3 presentation. This will probably become my first Mario game (apart from the Mario that was bundled with my N64). Plus my girlfriend loves Mario.

How can you hate Mario if you've never really owned one for yourself?

It's more that I hate the character than the games, I think. The character and perhaps the setting and atmosphere around it. Whenever I try a Mario game I am put off after 10 minutes or so.

It's been like this since the coin-op Arcades in the '80s. For me the coin-op platformers where quality while Mario was that bad game people had in their home consoles (NES). And that association has stuck. Despite coin-op being long gone and every new Mario being hugely praised.

Does this sound stupid?