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(#10) Super Mario Bros. Only Takes Up 256 Kilobits
If you don't know why this is a big (or not so big) deal, 256 kilobits translates to 32 kilobytes. This means it would take around three Super Mario Bros. cartridges to store one JPEG of a photo from the game. -
(#5) Mario Was Named After Nintendo's Landlord
Long before Mario was Mario, he was called “Jumpman” because they had to call him something. Before that, he was called “Mr. Video” which is actually kind of awesome. Even before that, he was known as “Ossan,” which translates to “middle-aged guy.” And because no one wants to play a game called "Super Middle-Aged Guy," a proper name was sought and found in Nintendo's American offices.
The story goes that Nintendo was supposedly late on rent and their landlord, Mario Segale, looked the other way. In thanks, he was forever immortalized as the namesake for the most popular video game mascot of all time - Super Segale.
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(#18) Mario Originally Carried a Beam Gun and Rode a Cloud
Before becoming the jumping brick smasher gamers know and love, Mario was going to be the star of an action game that was closer to Metroid. He was even going to ride a rocket at one point. -
(#6) Bowser Was Originally an Ox
Shigeru Miyamoto initially sketched Bowser as an ox. His drawings were misinterpreted by animator Yoichi Kotabe as a turtle, but then the duo worked together to mix the two ideas and the Bowser we know today was born.
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(#2) Super Mario Bros. Was Meant to Be the Last Cartridge Game EVER
Before becoming Nintendo's first big hit in America, Super Mario Bros. was supposed to be Nintendo's cartridge based ride into the sunset before they switched to the floppy disk-based Famicom Disk System. Ironically, the game was so popular that cartridges stuck around for another two decades. -
(#13) Mario Has a Super Dark Backstory
Have you ever read the backstory for Super Mario Bros.? It basically reads like what would have happened if Lord Voldemort actually killed infant Harry Potter. Basically, everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom has either been turned into blocks or goombas by King Koopa (who is a wizard by the way), and every time Mario stomps on a goomba or breaks a block, he's killing a peasant from the kingdom. Talk about collateral damage.
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Super Mario Bros is a famous clearance game developed by Nintendo and released in 1985. It was first launched on consoles. With the continuous innovation and transformation of the game, many follow-up visions have been widely welcomed all over the world. In the development of "Super Mario Bros." for more than 30 years, many game producers have made important contributions to the popularity of the game series.
Super Mario Bros is still one of the most classic games in the world. Have you played this game? The random tool introduced 20 interesting things about Super Mario Bros that most people never know.
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