Five things you (possibly) didn’t know about Mario - General Discussion Forum

Splat · 2010-09-16T19:51:18+00:00

I think most of this is all ready known to Mario fans but thought I would post it any ways.:) http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/groundbreaking-... Mario’s last name is also Mario. He’s Mario Mario, in fact. His first appearance was actually in 1981 in the arcade version of Donkey Kong, where he was known as “Jumpman.” He wouldn’t get his official name until the following year’s Donkey Kong Jr., also the only game where he plays the bad guy. Not only is Mario the best-selling video game character of all time, he’s also its most prolific: according to Guinness World Records’s 2008 edition, he’s appeared in 116 separate games. Mario’s distinctive high-pitched voice is provided by actor Charles Martinet, who also voices Mario’s brother Luigi and his longtime foe Wario. Nintendo released a follow-up to Super Mario Bros. in Japan in 1986, but deemed it too difficult for Western audiences. It wouldn’t hit U.S. shores as a standalone title until 2007, as a Wii Virtual Console title dubbed “Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.”

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Raylax
Fri 17th Sep 2010

James Newton wrote:

But they're the Mario Bros., which doesn't make sense if one of them is called Luigi, unless they both share the common name Mario.

They live in a world populated by talking mushrooms, where the hills /actually do/ have eyes, and species genocide is a fun-filled way of life (or at least, a way of gaining lives). Can we assume that the rules of family name usage also likely don't apply there?

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