Jamin Brophy-Warren wrote:

The fellow next to me, however, felt no inklings of team spirit and proceeded to stomp on my head, steal my power-ups, and generally act like a complete "greedy Gus," as my mom would say. Immediately infantilized, I was transported back to the living room of my childhood, where my brother used to torment me by driving my on-screen character to some unseemly demise, insisting that he was "just playing the game his way." I left the Nintendo booth dismayed and frustrated and had the overwhelming desire to call my mother and gripe.