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- Feb 6, 2013
His grampa. It's in the book.I think I recall someone mentioning in this thread that he had a family member who was a plumber and Mario being from the "real world" made him see it as "this could've been me".
"The NES and Mario were the first “toy” that I ever loved enough to invest into the broader culture around it. I played the game constantly, but I also devoured any shred of information about games that I could get my hands on. I’d tear through books and magazines about games when I found them at the store, I’d pump my NES-owning friends for information on what was new and awesome. I read every scrap of info about Mario I could find, especially. It was during this “research” that I came to know that Mario was a plumber, for example – which made my connection to him that much stronger since that was also the profession of my grandfather, whom I adored."