Games - Mario

	Games - Mario

, also known as Super Mario and originally , is a video game character created by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. As well as being Nintendo's mascot he is one of the most recognized characters in video game history, appearing in hundreds of games, many of them bestsellers. Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong, and appeared alongside his brother Luigi for the first time in Mario Bros. As of now, nearly 200 million games featuring Mario have been sold, making it by far the best selling franchise in the history of video games.

Mario's full name is believed to be Mario Mario, due to him and Luigi frequently being referred to as the "Mario Bros." According to creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the licensed film, and the television series, their surname is indeed Mario, but this issue is rarely dealt with in official Nintendo materials.

Mario was named after Mario Segali, the landlord of Nintendo of America's former New York headquarters. (They later moved to their Redmond, Washington facility when large computer companies such as Microsoft began going up.) When a Japanese copy of the new Donkey Kong game arrived, the NOA staff had to translate the story and character names into English. The lead character, known in Japan as "Jumpman," needed an English name. After interrupting a meeting discussing this issue, Segali blasted the president of NOA, Minoru Arakawa, because the firm's rent was overdue. By the time of Donkey Kong Junior's production, Jumpman had officially become Mario.

In the games, the current voice actor for Mario is Charles Martinet. Ronald B. Ruben voiced him in the PC game Mario Teaches Typing. In cartoons, he has been voiced by Walker Boone, Captain Lou Albano, Peter Cullen and Tōru Furuya. In the 1993 movie, Mario is played by Bob Hoskins

Biography

Despite his lengthy history, Mario is in many ways an undeveloped character with many details of his accepted biography having been created through a complex lore spawned from the imaginations of comic book artists, cartoon writers, and fans.

Officially, Nintendo producers have stated that Mario's biography is kept simple in order to make the character versatile, and reusable in many different games and situations.

In his first appearance in Donkey Kong, all that was stated was that he was a carpenter who had to save Pauline from Donkey Kong. His third appearance in Mario Bros. changed his profession to plumber, which was more fitting with the pipe theme of that game. Here, Mario and his brother Luigi cleaned out the sewers of Brooklyn. This fact, in addition to both the cartoon series and the movie, led many to believe that Brooklyn was Mario's original home. Newer games and manuals, however, state that he grew up in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom. Some have suggested that the brothers were taken to the "Real World" at an early age, while others disagreed this because it contradicts the other games and the Super Mario 64 guide which was written after Yoshi's Island.

Over the course of his many games, Mario has rescued a number of women from captivity (including Pauline, Princess Peach, and Princess Daisy) and has become regarded as a great hero in the Mushroom Kingdom. There is no definitive timeline for the events in the various games, most of which could be placed in nearly any order.

Baby Mario

Baby Mario is the infant version of Mario, although he has appeared alongside his older self in Nintendo sports titles such as Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. However, it is generally accepted that these games are outside the continuity of the main Mario series, and therefore do not suggest that Mario and Baby Mario are separate characters in the main storyline. An alternative solution is saying that the babies were present via time travel, link in Mario & Luigi: Partner in Time. Like the older Mario, he is voiced by Charles Martinet.

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