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I'm all for this topic.

One of my earliest gaming memories is with Super Mario 64. My first home console was an N64, which I got for Christmas 1998 when I was in third grade. It was one of the absolute happiest moments I've ever had opening a gift. I'd played video games before at friends' houses and other places, and my brother even had a Sega GameGear, but this was the first time I had a home console in my house. This was our "big ask" that year, and we gave our parents some game suggestions. I suggested Diddy Kong Racing, and my brother suggested Super Mario 64, each of which we'd played at friends' houses. Funny enough, they got the exact same two suggestions from another parents they talked to and that was the deciding factor for them. Also funny enough, as each game was addressed to both of us rather than one to each, we each opened the opposite game that we had asked for. I won whatever was the determining factor for playing first (maybe because I was older?) and ended up choosing Mario. I INSTANTLY fell in love with it and to this day it's still my favorite video game ever made.

The Mario series of course remains one of my all-time favorites and I've played most of the mainline games and even a lot of the side-games. Interestingly, this year I've been playing/plan to play a lot of Wario games, but have also had a hankering to replay Super Mario Galaxy, which I haven't played through since getting my Wii (another tale I'll maybe tell later on).