Thank you for your continued inexperienced opinion on the matter. Feel free to blindly advise people on other subjects you have zero experience in.

I just explained it to you. Come on.

You’re thinking way too deep into it. It’s not like that in real life. There is no attack, no ignorance. It has nothing to do with pride. It’s just natural seeing things a million times and categorizing it the best you can. You don’t understand how much kids watch the same exact stuff over and over and over and over and over and over. Its the same with video games.

If you could spend time with your kids 24/7 then sure, you’d be fine easily knowing and recognizing every single character they’re interested in. That’s just simply not realistic though.

You don’t have kids. The stuff they get into can be ridiculous very easily. My experience has been paw patrol. There are a bunch of shows that have the same style, and you will see these shows a lot. Over and over and over. So much that any show that has even the slightest style as paw patrol becomes A paw patrol. The kid spiderman cartoon is a paw patrol for example.

You do learn the name of thier favorites. But you also see how much some things are the same. 8 bit Mario and Mega Man are different games, but they do look very similar to anyone working a full time job, coming home and cooking cleaning making sure everything related to your schoolwork is done, etc etc etc. Parents don’t just hang around and be best friends with thier kids.

Also, at the time every game was “the Nintendo” to parents, and still was for a couple decades after. Mario had an enormous impact.