When I was in middle school I joined the official Nintendo forums (NSider) and got really into Nintendo. People were debating what characters would get into Smash, so in order to show off I played the games of every Nintendo character / series I could get my hands on (I emulated and beat both FE6 and Mother 3 without translations). To back up my arguments.
It really got me into gaming and Nintendo. Then the inclusion of Snake, introduced me to darker games, because I had this preconceived notion it was mostly generic Bomberman Act Zero / Shadow the Hedgehog type stuff. These debates taught me alot of grammar and writing skills, the forum members taught me alot of stuff too.
I made this roster more than a decade ago with poor gimp skills. My thread, had my reasoning for every character, their stage, a list of their music, their movesets, etc.
https://imgur.com/a/JNiDIpQ
I remember getting roasted for how large my roster was. Well look at where we are now. I also had alot of obscure Nintendo characters as well.
36/64 isn't bad. :b
Hopefully Isaac increases that number.