>Mario isn't actually in the game that saved Nintendo's video game business and let them become the company they are today, he showed up two years later
>The protagonist of arguably Nintendo's most important game of all time? He's a guy called Mario but he's literally never been seen in a game again, not in a Mario game, not in a Donkey Kong game, not even as a Smash Bros. spirit
I think that this is objectively what Nintendo is going for but it's a fucking retarded retcon. "Mario first debuted in 1983" is dumb as hell.
I unironically like Suzanne theory more because it doesn't erase Nintendo history even if the guy peddling it is annoying as fuck