Would you be a Nintendo fan if Mario had never existed?

[pokoko]

richardhutnik said:

pokoko said:

Oh, well, goodness, you've certainly brought the proof yourself.  The basis of your claim is what, exactly?  I don't even remember Mario being the focus of NES advertising.  Look, I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings but Mario didn't spring straight from Nintendo's loins as popular as he is today.  The NES would have been huge even if Excitebike or Donkey Kong had been the pack-in.  It was the combination of so much fun and interesting stuff that made the NES a success.

The Colecovision has Donkey Kong as a pack-in.  Not sure you can say Donkey Kong is the big deal.  Super Mario Bros. had to do something of interest to people, that got it interested.  To deny that Super Mario Bros. wasn't significant is pushing it.

Oh, dear lord.  Look, I'm sorry, it was all Mario.  No one cared about any of the other games, right from the start, even before anyone had played a single NES, everyone only cared about Mario.  All the rest of the games combined were complete failures.  There you go.