Mario Segali This is Me

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1. 1. www.musiccrawler.net

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   Published on: 7/6/2007   Last Visited: 7/6/2007

   Mario was named after the landlord, Mario Segali, of Nintendo of America's Seattle home in 1981.
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   After interrupting the conference, Mario Segali, blasted the president of NOA, Minoru Arakawa, because the firm's rent was overdue.
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   Their landlord, the team quickly decided that Mario would be Jumpman's name. By the production of Donkey Kong Junior, an arcade game in the style of Donkey Kong, Jumpman officially became Mario.
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   In the games, the current voice actor for Mario is Charles Martinet.
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   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.
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   Mario is one of the most underdeveloped characters in the Mario universe however, with characters such as Bowser and Princess Peach having more complex, consistent, and unique back stories.
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   Here, Mario and his brother Luigi cleaned out the sewers of Brooklyn.

2. 2. more-nintendo.com

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   Published on: 10/10/2006   Last Visited: 12/6/2007

   Later on the programmers have realised a quite big similarity about their character and the caretaker of their Nintendo Office in New York, Mario Segali, so they named their character after him.
   
   His look was like this, thanks to the simple graphic, that was able by these old computers. He only wears a cap because it was so hard to animate hairs in move. His nose and his mustache are because of the small amount of pixel there displayable. These clothes were selected because it was a wish to see his arms moving while walking. Therefore there had to be a contrast between his arms and his body so they had to be differently colored. This way Mario hast got his typical look today: a knobby nose, a cap, his mustache and the type of clothes.

3. 3. Zelda 101 version 11 The Twilight Realm is open...

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   Published on: 8/5/2006   Last Visited: 11/23/2007

   As the story goes, they were mulling over what to name Jumpman when the landlord, Mario Segali, arrived at the warehouse, demanding the overdue rent payment. When he left, the staff had a new name for Jumpman: "Mario."
   
   The look
   
   For the most part, Mario looks the way he does today because of 1981's immature graphics technology.
   
   Hat
   
   To avoid the difficulty of having Mario's hair move realistically, Miyamoto gave Mario a hat.
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   Miyamoto gave Mario a moustache and oversized nose to make Mario's nose more noticeable.
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   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. hit the arcades.
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   When Super Mario Bros. came out for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Mario had his original red overalls, but a brownish shirt. In Super Mario Bros. 2, Mario went back to his second color scheme-red shirt, blue overalls-and has not changed since.
   
   Mario's Timeline
   
   1981:Mario is created by the legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and appears in his first game, the arcade game Donkey Kong, in which he is known simply as "Jumpman."
   
   1982:For the arcade release of Donkey Kong Jr., the Jumpman character is renamed "Mario" because of his resemblance to the owner of Nintendo of America's first warehouse, Mario Segali.
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   1983:The arcade game Mario Bros. becomes the first game to feature Mario as a title character and also marks the first appearance of Mario's brother, Luigi.
   
   1983:Mario becomes a TV star by appearing as a circus trainer in the CBS cartoon series Saturday Supercade, which runs through 1985.
   
   1985:Mario stars in Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo's first U.S. home video game console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The world is introduced to the Mushroom Kingdom, the setting for many future Mario adventures.
   
   1989:Mario becomes one of the first video game characters to appear in a motion picture. He debuts on the silver screen in The Wizard, which gives eager players their first glimpse of Super Mario Bros. 3.
   
   1989:Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES launches and goes on to sell more than 17.3 million games worldwide, making it the most successful individually sold video game of all time, a record that still stands.
   
   1989:Mario jumps into every kid's hand with the launch of Super Mario Land for Nintendo's original Game Boy.
   
   1991:Mario appears with Yoshi for the first time in Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
   
   1992:Mario and his pals hit the racetrack in the frantic and fun-filled Super Mario Kart for the SNES.
   
   1993:Mario's adventures inspire a major motion picture: Super Mario Bros. - The Movie. The film stars Bob Hoskins as Mario, John Leguizamo as Luigi and Dennis Hopper as King Koopa.
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   1995:The Super NES game Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island features Mario as a baby - and he still saves the princess!
   
   1996:Mario becomes the first video game character to have complete movement in a 360-degree, 3-D home video game environment in Super Mario 64 for Nintendo 64.
   
   2001:The top-selling Super Mario® Advance marks Mario's debut on the new Game Boy Advance hand-held system.
   
   2001:Mario's first appears on the Nintendo GameCube in Luigi's Mansion. Mario's little brother and sidekick, Luigi, has to rescue Mario when he is held captive by ghosts in a haunted mansion.
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   2006:The tables are turned on Mario when longtime kidnap victim Princess Peach has to rescue him in Super Princess Peach for Nintendo DS.
   
   2006:Mario's 25 years of popularity continue, as New Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS emerges as one of the top-selling games in the United States for the year, with nearly 2 million units sold.
   
   2007:The first Mario game for Nintendo's Wii system is Super Paper Mario, a remarkable game that shifts Mario between 2-D and 3-D environments. Other hot Wii games on the way that feature Mario include Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
   
   2007:Mario will appear with Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.
   
   The names
   
   Virtually all Mario fans know how Mario got his name (see The birth), but what about some of the other characters?
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   The American team provided the name "Luigi" as something to go along with "Mario."
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   Wario's name is a combination of Mario and warui, which means "bad" in Japanese.