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![The story behind Mario, as told in the words of creator Shigeru Miyamoto... AKING MARIO In Japan, Mario was originally known as Jumpman. Well,I called him 'Mr. Video. My plan was to use the same character in every Someone at Nintendo of America actualy The technology of the Tne reaily dictated .My gosi within That-mined paieme-85 possible. Beceuse of doent look rigt. By giving him a hat we When Merio is nunning he moves his anme o see I thought would be best o make Overals were the ony opson! The only reason et he tos mastache is becouse when we created me original saw that the way Mickey had evolved, we decided that Mario we going to be 8 character who would evove and change with the advances in digital technology MARIO Donkey Kong was originally going to be Popeye game, but t fel through Then we thought: Why not come up with our own original characte? 1981 1983 1985 Super Mario Bros. Donkey Keng Mario Bros. Around December of 1984, I wanted to see what it would be lke with a Mario jumping around wto was tout twice the size ofthe in Morto Bros. 1985 Super Mario Bros 1988 1990 Super Mario Bros. 2 (us) Super Marlo Bros 3 Then we gave Mario spair of white gloves, in order to make hs movements easier to spot when he jumped 1991 Super Mario World 1996 2002-NOW Super Mario 64 Super Mario Sunshine-Now MARIO Originalty ever since we made Donkey Kong, on many occasions I hed done rough sketches of Marlo in pencil and then given them to an external illustrsbor to poish up 1981 1982 1983 When we came out with Super Mano Bros, l was thinking about asking professional manga artist or a well-known ilustretor to do the art, but time was rnning o 丸so l drew the original art for the [Japanese] peck ge myself 1985 1990 1996-NOW If youre familiar with things like Popeye MR.UIDnd would oftentimes see tis hat takes on different roles depending on So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take an different rolies in differem games Bottler Maie Bres Denkey Kang Loader Soldier Official Wrecker Mke Tyson's Punch-Ouf Doctor Perheps the Dr. Maie you'ne thiniding of wes nnayoe, in some Sheriff Shigeru Miyamoto's first mustached character was the hero in Nintendo's 1979 arcade Donkey Kang. Could this be theactua irst appearance of the cheracter who would eventually become Mario?](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/001/021/723/247.jpg "The history behind Mario")
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