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He picked "Kong" because the character was a gorilla. Miyamoto stated in an interview with Nintendo Online Magazine that he got "donkey" from looking up manuke (Japanese for "stupid") in an English dictionary. Simply put, "Donkey Kong" means "stupid gorilla," so forget the silly rumors. Virtually all Nintendo fans know how Mario got his name (see The birth), but what about some of the other characters? Fortunately, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed more name origins during interviews. 2, Mario went back to his second color scheme—red shirt, blue overalls—and has not changed since. came out for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Mario had his original red overalls, but a brownish shirt. Mario started out with a blue shirt and red overalls outfit in Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., but the color scheme was switched to a red shirt and blue overalls when Mario Bros.

Mario's overalls make his arms and arm movements more visible. Miyamoto gave Mario a moustache and oversized nose to make Mario's nose more noticeable. Also, in Game Over, Miyamoto admits, "I cannot come up with hairstyles so good." To avoid the difficulty of having Mario's hair move realistically, Miyamoto gave Mario a hat. (For more about how Mario got his name, please see part two of this special, The History of Mario's Name.)įor the most part, Mario looks the way he does today because of 1981's immature graphics technology. When NOA was preparing the game for an American release, they renamed Jumpman to "Mario" after Mario Segale, the landlord of their warehouse. "Jumpman" did not have his name for very long, however. The result was Donkey Kong, starring "Jumpman," a portly carpenter clad in red and blue. at the time, asked staff artist Shigeru Miyamoto to design a new game based on his own ideas. Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president and CEO of Nintendo Co., Ltd. To stay afloat, NOA desperately needed a smash-hit game—and fast. It flopped, leaving Nintendo stuck with 2,000 unsold Radar Scope units. In 1980, Nintendo of America (NOA) released Radar Scope, an arcade game they hoped would kickstart a long reign of success.

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