Guys, I think you have really high hopes for someone who has problems knowing where each button is located.
I talk for my personal experiences in these cases: You may think that a certain game is easy to pick up. But we are people who play videogames almost daily. We have many aspects of videogames interiorized in our mind. It's instinctive and instantaneous for us.
But for people who don't play videogames often... things like pressing two buttons at the same time for running in Mario or drifting in Mario Kart is a huge barrier for them. Things like "controlling the camera" has very little sense to them. Having to do many different actions like attack, dodge, block, jump, rotate the camera, lock on the enemy, use items... that's too much for them.
All these situations make them frustrated, especially if you are playing with them. Because they can see that you know exactly how it's done, but they are having serious difficulties. Or worst: if you're the kind of person that takes the controller out of them to show them how it's done... they hate that. It's like calling them idiots xD
After half an hour or less, they want to quit. And I don't blame them. I would feel very uncomfortable in a situation like that. Something that should be a fun time has turned out to be a nightmare.
So... I get that you want to show your friends/couple all those cool games you play. But if you really want to play together... choose something where both of you are in the same conditions. Choose a simple game, preferably 2D, that controls with not many buttons and where the objective is clear and simple.
