![]() ![]() ![]() With the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) game came our first dive into Mushroom Kingdom and the beginning of the legendary rivalry between Mario and Bowser. The Mario we know today, with bushy moustache and the red overalls and cap, came into being with the 1985 release of Super Mario Bros. ![]() In the game, the two Italian-American plumbers fight to save New York City from creatures that have been emerging from the city's sewers. Mario got a mild makeover for the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros and was given a younger brother, Luigi. The game is the only one to have Mario portrayed as an antagonist, with twirled moustache ends and sideburns. Jumpman first became known as Mario in the 1982 sequel to Donkey Kong, known as Donkey Kong Jr. Most of the plot around Donkey Kong revolved around the fact that Jumpman – who is a carpenter, rather than a plumber – mistreats his pet ape, who escapes and kidnaps his love interest, who at that point was only known as 'The Lady'. We may have some bad news for that last guy….It has been 35 years since Mario began his never-ending journey to save Princess Peach from Bowser, King of Koopas, travelling along green pipes and under skies of smiling clouds, collecting coins and stomping on Goombas along the way.Īnd though the pudgy Italian plumber became an international sensation with the release of the first Super Mario Bros on September 13, 1985, it wasn't actually the first time the moustachioed favourite was featured in a video game.īut he wasn't called Mario in his debut in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, rather he was known as 'Jumpman' and he didn't have the sunny "Let's-a-go" personality we've come to know and love today. “No way! Next thing they’ll tell us is that Princess Peach isn’t actually a peach!” “Well, I guess they do live in the Mushroom Kingdom, so it makes sense.” But still, for Japanese netizens who grew up thinking they were stomping on chestnut people this whole time, it was like learning that the “Super Mario Brothers” were actually just similar-looking neighbors. Of course when you think about it, very few of the Mario enemies’ names make sense to begin with. Iwata: “What? Shiitake mushrooms? (Laughs) They’re not chestnuts?” Tezuka: “Oh, they’re actually based on shiitake mushrooms.” Iwata: “By the way, is it an accident that Goombas look a lot like mushrooms?” ![]() Here’s a translation of their conversation: Of course this isn’t news to anyone who subscribed to the “Ask the President” column on the official Japanese Nintendo website, during which the late president of the company Satori Iwata and general manager of development Takashi Tezuka discussed this exact question some time ago. He let me ride him the other day.Ī: They’re not actually chestnuts. He’s not me, but he’s my friend, so don’t get us mixed up!Ī: Our green friend. 最後とんでもない新事実が判明してしまったんだけど /aJwU0vMPLt- イズナウェイ September 29, 2015Ī: I heard he won last year’s red light/green light national championship.Ī: The one with the red spots. Little did the Twitter user know what was in store… (translation below): One Japanese Twitter user discovered that if you just start throwing Toad a bunch of Nintendo character names, he’ll tell you what he thinks about them. The idea is that users are talking to one of the game’s mushroom-headed Toads, and he’ll respond to pretty much anything you say. Recently, Nintendo released an automated bot to respond to messages people send via the popular Japanese smartphone messaging system Line. Read on and see for yourself the aftermath that shocked Japanese gamers all over the internet. Thanks to the official Nintendo Line Messenger bot, Japanese netizens have learned the shocking truth about Mario’s oldest enemy: they’re not chestnuts, they’re shiitake mushrooms! For example, did you know that in the Japanese versions of Mario, Goombas are called “kuribo,” which translates to “chestnut guy?” For three decades now, it has been widely believed in Japan that the Goombas are, indeed, chestnuts. Japan may love Mario, but they have a couple wrong ideas about the series. ![]()
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