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

Slimebeast on 30 June 2012
mushroomboy5 said:
Slimebeast said:
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?


Hmm yet mario was in one of the biggest arcade games of all time (donkey kong) and the original Mario Bros game (not 'super') was originally an arcade machine before the nes even existed...so, yeah, that is weird logic (to me, as someone who was also alive and kicking back in the day), but,hey,  we all have our things.

In the original coin-op Donkey Kong Mario was cool. He was neutral back then, he only became annoying later.



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S.Peelman on 30 June 2012
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.


So you have (or; had, maybe) Mario 64, but still hate Mario... How does that work? :P



acdcste on 30 June 2012

If there is one certainty, its that this game will sell at the very least 15 million, whilst giving the 3ds the boost it desperatley needs in north america and europe, where quite frankly its pretty stagnant at the moment in comparison to japan.