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Five things you (possibly) didn’t know about Mario

September 18, 2010
  1. Mario’s last name is also Mario. He’s Mario Mario, in fact.
  2. His first appearance was actually in 1981 in the arcade version of Donkey Kong, where he was known as “Jumpman”. He wouldn’t het his official name until following year’s Dongkey Kong Jr., also the only game where he plays the bad guy.
  3. Not only inMario the best-selling video game character of all time, he’s also its most prolific: according to Guiness World Records’s 2008 edition, he’s appeared in 116 seperate games.
  4. Mario’s distinctive high-pitched voice is provided by actor Charles Martinet, who also voices Mario’s brother Luigi andhis longtime foe Wario.
  5. 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 dibbed “Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. “

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