One of my cousins that doesn't like Mario, just bought SMB3 on the VC with the left over 500 points he had from buying the Internet channel :O

It'll be his first Mario game, I wonder if he'll like it.

SMB3 (on GBA) was my first Mario and I liked it, but it's only my fifth favorite today. It was really hard to me when I first started playing, I died like 100 times before I beat the first four levels o_O

I do hope he likes it though.  I'll be gifting him LoZ soon to see if he likes that. (LoZ was my first Zelda game as well)

SMB3 is okay, but my favorite 2D mario is Super Mario World. Galaxy is the best 3D mario.

If it is a young cousin be prepared for ' Oh this game sucks'.

Great game but compared to world it shows it's age.

Wow, my first videogames are Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World. You're first mario game was on the GBA!? o_O

 Yeah o_O in 2006 :D

Anyway, he said at first "OMG IT SUCKS" and then left to play Medal of Honor 2 on the Wii or something (sigh) but now when I logged on it said I had an offline message,  and he said in it "i've been playing SMB3 some more. it's pretty good but it's EVIL and ridicolously hard".

I would have told him to get SMW but he would have had to have bought more Wii Points and a classic controller. With SMB3 he already had the 500 wii points and he could use the Wiimote to play.

I agree.

SMW was my favorite Mario until Galaxy.

SMW was my first game ever :)

Bah. I liked Mario 3 better than World. Had much better variety and creativity, and was actually LONGER than world (if you didn't warp.)

My First 'Mario' game was Donkey Kong. If you don't consider that a 'Mario Game' then my first Mario Game was Mario Bros. (no not super mario bros on the NES)

Might I also suggest a more descriptive topic title. Would probably create a bit more thread traffic...