![]() In his 35 years of gaming Mario has also been depicted as a bottler ( Mario Bros Game & Watch), a loader ( Mario's Cement Factory), a soldier ( Mario's Bombs Away), a wrecker ( Wrecking Crew), a referee ( Mike Tyson's Punch-Out) and a doctor ( Doctor Mario). ![]() that Mario would be depicted as a plumber, given the game's underground location. For his first appearance in Donkey Kong it was decided that a manual labour job would make him a more appealing character. ![]() Mario didn't start out as a plumber, but as a carpenter. So we informed our parent company and that’s how Mario got his name." "We thought it would be funny to name the game character ‘Mario’ and quickly agreed it sounded great. Don James (executive VP of operations, Nintendo Of America) claims that they named the central character after the landlord for the company's warehouse - Mario Segale. Mario didn't gain his famed name until Nintendo of America began marketing the Donkey Kong title for US audiences. In his first appearance in 1981's Donkey Kong, he was known only as 'Jumpman', given his ability to jump over barrels. ![]() Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto nearly called his famed character 'Mr Video', speculating it would be a name he'd return to with each and every title.
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