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“Little kids would phone up and ask if they could speak with Mario,” remembers Dan. “There was this wonderful innocence about it, like believing in Santa. We ne
by johnyzee 5y ago
“Little kids would phone up and ask if they could speak with Mario,” remembers Dan. “There was this wonderful innocence about it, like believing in Santa. We never had the heart to say he wasn’t real, so we’d say that he was busy making a new game and couldn’t come to the phone.”
That's adorable.
- dfxm12 5y agoI wonder these guys knew any Mario canon. He was a plumber, and never depicted as a videogame dev. Kids would get confused, like if you told them Santa was out collecting kids' teeth or something.
- jaywalk 5y agoI'm not sure why kids would be confused by the star of multiple video games being busy making another video game.
- dfxm12 5y agoWhat kind of logic leads one to that conclusion? No related contemporary materials ever showed him creating videogames, but instead showed him either being a plumber or saving Peach from Bowser. The Ninja Turtles were famous cartoon characters. No one assumes they animated the cartoons because of that...
- jaywalk 5y agoYou're overthinking it. Think of it more like a movie star making a movie.
- kingcharles 5y agoDo any of the video games actually show Mario doing any plumbing, though? Like, I've never seen Mario in a game with a toilet snake trying to dislodge a 15lb turd from the sewer line.