I started playing Smash Brothers on the 64 back in the day when there were only twelve characters. The people I played with imposed a rule, that no one who played in our inner circle could use anyone else’s main, basically to impart a little flavor and insure that not everyone would pick the same characters. I was one of the last to choose a main out of the original eight and at the time I didn't know any Nintendo characters other than Mario, Luigi, DK and Pikachu. In the end I essentially got stuck with "the orange robot with the huge gun." That’s my confession, I never actually choose Samus, she sort of fell into my lap. I didn't even know about the Metroid series, and never would have if not for Smash Brothers. Fortunately for me it turned out that I was really good with Samus and I've used her ever since.