An issue might be K. Rool's size. Ever since his first appearance K. Rool was about 3 times the size of DK, who, in the smash bros games, was made the second largest character around.
[Bad attempt at scaling sprites to size proportions...]
That's pretty huge compared to everybody else. Then...
I just came from Japan. I saw an ad on a bus that's been bugging me because I don't know what it's for.
:mario: It started off with the Nintendo logo over a brown plane with a twilight blue sky. It was NES graphics. Then Mario (in his classic NES "Super Mario Bros." look) ran under from the...