Created by Nintendo in the 1980's, what is the profession of the video game character (Super) Mario?
"Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is a 1986 side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Nintendo as the first sequel to their 1985 bestseller ""Super Mario Bros."" The games are similar in style and gameplay, apart from a steep increase in difficulty. Like the original, Mario or Luigi venture to rescue the Princess from Bowser. Unlike the original, the game has no two-player option and Luigi is differentiated from his twin plumber brother with reduced ground friction and increased jump height. ""The Lost Levels"" also introduces setbacks such as poison mushroom power-ups, counterproductive"
"actively distinguished while others had to be curtailed due to technical limitations. In a 2005 interview, Miyamoto stated that Mario's physical age was about 24-25 years old. Mario's occupation is plumbing, though in the original ""Donkey Kong"" games he is a carpenter. Mario has had several other occupations: in the ""Dr. Mario"" series of puzzle games, which debuted in 1990, Mario is portrayed as a medical physician named ""Dr. Mario""; in the Game Boy game ""Mario's Picross"", Mario is an archaeologist; and in """", Mario is the president of a profitable toy-making company. Mario is an athlete in various ""Mario"""
"and six million Coleco cartridges, and ""Mario Bros."" which sold 1.72 million Famicom cartridges. Mario (franchise) The franchise is a media franchise, published and produced by video game company Nintendo, starring the fictional Italian character Mario. It is primarily a video game franchise, with the franchise's other forms of media including several television series and a feature film. It was originally created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto with the arcade game ""Donkey Kong"", released on July 9, 1981. The games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. Most ""Mario"" games have either been"
"Mario (franchise) The franchise is a media franchise, published and produced by video game company Nintendo, starring the fictional Italian character Mario. It is primarily a video game franchise, with the franchise's other forms of media including several television series and a feature film. It was originally created by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto with the arcade game ""Donkey Kong"", released on July 9, 1981. The games have been developed by a variety of developers including Nintendo, Hudson Soft, and AlphaDream. Most ""Mario"" games have either been released for the arcade or Nintendo video game consoles and handhelds dating from the"
"""Super Mario Galaxy"" and its sequel. Charles Martinet Charles Andre Martinet (; ; born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the ""Super Mario"" video game series. Martinet has voiced this title character of Nintendo's flagship video game franchise since 1990, and he also voices related characters such as Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Toadsworth. Martinet is of French descent and speaks fluent French and Spanish. His family moved to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain when he was 12 years old, and later his family moved to Paris,"
"Charles Martinet Charles Andre Martinet (; ; born September 17, 1955) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for voicing Mario in the ""Super Mario"" video game series. Martinet has voiced this title character of Nintendo's flagship video game franchise since 1990, and he also voices related characters such as Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi, and Toadsworth. Martinet is of French descent and speaks fluent French and Spanish. His family moved to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain when he was 12 years old, and later his family moved to Paris, France. He attended the American School"
"were raised about the legality of fan-made characters under Japan's copyright law. Created by Nintendo in 1985, ""Super Mario"" is a long running series of platform games that primarily revolves around the protagonist, Mario, and other playable characters such as his brother Luigi rescuing the kidnapped princess Princess Peach from often primary antagonist, Bowser. As the player progresses, they can gather in-game power-up items that let the player character gain new abilities or forms. During a prerecorded Nintendo Direct presentation broadcast in September 2018, Nintendo showcased a trailer for their 'Deluxe' re-release of ""New Super Mario Bros. U"" for the"
"developed for non-Nintendo hardware. (stylized as ""D℞. Mario"") is a series of arcade-style action puzzle video game originally developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, and later developed by Arika and produced by Nintendo Software Planning & Development. The first in the series, ""Dr. Mario"", was launched in 1990 on the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy to critical and commercial success. In the ""Dr. Mario"" series, the player character Mario, who assumes the role of a doctor, is tasked with eradicating deadly viruses. The player's objective is to destroy the viruses populating the on-screen playing field by using falling"
"Mario Segale Mario Arnold Segale (April 30, 1934 – October 27, 2018) was an American businessman and real estate developer. He was involved in various development projects in the Seattle area from the 1950s onwards. Nintendo's Mario character was named after him while his company was renting a warehouse to the company. Segale was born in Seattle to two first-generation Italian immigrants, Louis and Rina Segale, and was their only child. He graduated from Highline High School in 1952 and started a construction company with a single truck in 1957, the same year that he married his wife Donna. The"
"artist. In 1985, he was scouted by Nintendo and assumed the position of the game development adviser where he created package illustrations for ""Super Mario Bros."". Until that time, he was not familiar with video games.--> Yōichi Kotabe , is a Japanese animator and character designer and has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s. as well as working on the ""Super Mario"" video game series and the ""Pokémon"" television series and films. Kotabe worked as an employee on Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs and supervising those from 1985 to 2007, when he began"
"on shampoo bottles, cereal, badges, board games, and as a plush toy. Nintendo produced a 60-minute anime film based on the original ""Super Mario Bros."" titled """" in 1986, although this film has not been released outside Japan and has not been released on any home video format except VHS. The animated series ""The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!"" featured a live-action series of skits which starred former WWF manager ""Captain"" Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi. Mario appeared in a book series, the Nintendo Adventure Books. Mario has inspired unlicensed paintings, performances on talent shows such"
"Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo. The successor to the 1983 arcade game, ""Mario Bros."", it was released in Japan in 1985 for the Famicom, and in North America and Europe for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985 and 1987 respectively. Players control Mario, or his brother Luigi in the multiplayer mode, as they travel the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist, Bowser. They must traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom,"
"""Dr. Mario"" itself first released in 1990). In these games, Dr. Mario throws vitamins that the player must align to destroy the viruses that populate the playing field. 1996's ""Super Mario RPG"" is the first ""Mario"" role-playing game; ten games have followed, including five in the ""Paper Mario"" series (""Paper Mario"" for the Nintendo 64, """" for the GameCube, ""Super Paper Mario"" for the Wii, """" for the Nintendo 3DS, and """" for the Wii U) and six in the ""Mario & Luigi"" series ("""" for the Game Boy Advance, """" and """" for the Nintendo DS, """", """", and"
"Mario With more than 500 million units sold worldwide, the overall ""Mario"" franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time. Outside of the ""Super Mario"" platform series, other ""Mario"" genres include the ""Mario Kart"" racing series, sports games such as the ""Mario Tennis"" and ""Mario Golf"" series, role-playing games such as ""Mario & Luigi"", ""Super Mario RPG"" and ""Paper Mario"", and educational games such as ""Mario Is Missing!"", ""Mario's Time Machine"" and ""Mario Teaches Typing"". The franchise has branched into several media, including television shows, film, comics, and licensed merchandise. Since 1990, Mario has been voiced by Charles"
"in 2003 for """". In 2012 after Charles Martinet voiced Mario declaring himself ""Mario Mario"" at the San Diego Comic-Con the next month Satoru Iwata said he had no last name, which Shigeru Miyamoto agreed with the month after. Two months after Iwata's death in July 2015, Miyamoto changed his stance September 2015 at the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary festival, asserting that his name was indeed Mario Mario. Mario debuted as ""Jumpman"" in the arcade game ""Donkey Kong"" on July 9, 1981. He is shown to be a carpenter and has a pet ape called Donkey Kong. The carpenter"
"March 2018, the Japanese profile has since been changed to state that Mario's occupation is still a plumber. Since his first game, Mario has usually had the role of saving the damsel in distress. Originally, he had to rescue his girlfriend Pauline in ""Donkey Kong"" from Donkey Kong. Pauline was soon replaced by a new damsel in distress, Princess Peach, in ""Super Mario Bros."", but returned in the Game Boy remake of ""Donkey Kong"" in 1994, and in """" in 2006, although the character is now described as ""Mario's friend"". Mario has rescued Princess Peach multiple times since ""Super Mario"
"rent. Following a heated argument in which the Nintendo employees eventually convinced Segale he would be paid, they opted to name the character in the game Mario after him. Miyamoto commented that if he had named Mario ""Mr. Video"", Mario likely would have ""disappeared off the face of the Earth"". By Miyamoto's own account, Mario's profession was chosen to fit with the game design. Since ""Donkey Kong"" was set on a construction site, Mario was made into a carpenter. When he appeared again in ""Mario Bros."", it was decided he should be a plumber, since a lot of the game"
"projects he has worked on at Nintendo include ""Super Metroid"", the Super Scope for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and ""Mario & Wario"". Kano is credited with creating several early Nintendo characters during the 1980s. Ultimately, his best known achievement may have been creating the concepts of the Metroid, Famicom Wars, and Kid Icarus universe. Iwata Asks: Game & Watch Iwata Asks: Game & Watch - Development Staff Interview Makoto Kano (video game designer) , also credited as Makoto Kanoh pre-1995, is a Japanese game designer and supervisor. He was born in Kyoto, Japan. Kano began working for Nintendo in"
"Paper Mario Paper Mario is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 home video game console. It was first released in Japan in 2000 and in the rest of the world in 2001. ""Paper Mario"" was re-released for Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console in July 2007 as well as Wii U Virtual Console in 2015. ""Paper Mario"" is set in the Mushroom Kingdom as the protagonist Mario tries to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser, who has imprisoned the seven ""Star Spirits"", lifted her castle into the sky and has successfully defeated his"
"As Nintendo's primary mascot, Mario is widely considered to be the most famous video game character in history, and has been called an icon of the gaming industry. The ""Mario"" series of video games has sold more than 510 million copies, making it the best-selling video game franchise. Mario was one of the first video game character inductees at the Walk of Game in 2005, alongside Link and Sonic the Hedgehog. Mario was the first video game character to be honored with a wax figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum in 2003. In the 1990s, a national survey found that"
"Super Mario The ""Super Mario"" games follow Mario's adventures, typically in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom with Mario as the player character. He is often joined by his brother, Luigi, and occasionally by other members of the ""Mario"" cast. As in platform video games, the player runs and jumps across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first title in the series, ""Super Mario Bros."", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, established gameplay concepts and elements prevalent in nearly"
"is played in underground settings. Mario's character design, particularly his large nose, draws on western influences; once he became a plumber, Miyamoto decided to ""put him in New York"" and make him Italian, lightheartedly attributing Mario's nationality to his mustache. Other sources have Mario's profession chosen to be carpenter in an effort to depict the character as an ordinary hard worker, and make it easier for players to identify with him. After a colleague suggested that Mario more closely resembled a plumber, Miyamoto changed Mario's profession accordingly and developed ""Mario Bros."", featuring the character in the sewers of New York"
"Super Mario World Super Mario World is a 1990 side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The story follows Mario's quest to save Princess Toadstool and Dinosaur Land from the series antagonist Bowser and his children, the Koopalings. The gameplay is similar to that of earlier ""Super Mario"" games: Players control Mario or his brother Luigi through a series of levels in which the goal is to reach the flagpole at the end. ""Super Mario World"" introduced Yoshi, a dinosaur who can eat enemies and gain abilities by eating the shells of"
"sports titles including ""Mario Sports Mix"", ""Mario Strikers Charged"", and ""Mario Tennis Aces""; as well as a kart racer in the ""Mario Kart"" series. Mario usually saves Princess Peach and the Mushroom Kingdom and purges antagonists, such as Bowser, from various areas. Mario has gained fame in the Mushroom Kingdom due to his heroic deeds, as shown in """", where the brothers are referred to as ""superstars"". In September 2017, Nintendo confirmed on their official Japanese profile for the character that Mario was no longer considered a plumber, most likely due to his various occupations and hobbies. However as of"
"football players Mario Götze and Mario Gómez, National Hockey League player Mario Lemieux, Italian footballer Mario Balotelli, and Italian cyclist Mario Cipollini have been given the nickname ""Super Mario"". In a suburb of the Spanish city of Zaragoza, streets were named after video games, including ""Avenida de Super Mario Bros"". Mario's legacy is recognized by Guinness World Records, who awarded the Nintendo mascot, and the series of platform games he has appeared in, seven world records in the ""Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition 2008"". These records include ""Best Selling Video Game Series of All Time"", ""First Movie Based on an"
"even late at night. He also stated that he has a hobby of guessing the dimensions of objects, then checking to see if he was correct, and reportedly carries a measuring tape with him everywhere. In December 2016, Miyamoto showcased his hobby on ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"", while also performing the ""Super Mario Bros."" theme on guitar with The Roots during the same show. Shigeru Miyamoto Miyamoto originally joined Nintendo in 1977, when the company was beginning its foray into video games and starting to abandon the playing cards it had made since 1889. His games have been"
"Mar 10 it resembles the name MARIO. Since 2016, the day was officially observed by Nintendo, and celebrates this day annually by promoting ""Mario"" games and holding ""Mario""-related events. Mario With more than 500 million units sold worldwide, the overall ""Mario"" franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time. Outside of the ""Super Mario"" platform series, other ""Mario"" genres include the ""Mario Kart"" racing series, sports games such as the ""Mario Tennis"" and ""Mario Golf"" series, role-playing games such as ""Mario & Luigi"", ""Super Mario RPG"" and ""Paper Mario"", and educational games such as ""Mario Is Missing!"", ""Mario's"
"series, such as Mario Kart. DK debuted at the same time as Mario, and he still appears with Mario on occasion, appearing as a playable character in the ""Mario Kart"" and ""Super Smash Bros."" series, and is the primary antagonist in the ""Mario vs. Donkey Kong"" games. In 1981, Nintendo was pursuing a license to make a game based on the ""Popeye"" comic strip. When this fell through, Nintendo decided that it would take the opportunity to create new characters that could then be marketed and used in later games. Shigeru Miyamoto came up with many characters and plot concepts,"
"create an educational Mario game. Nintendo licensed the Mario characters but was otherwise not involved in the game's development, nor was Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. The Software Toolworks released the game for MS-DOS in January 1993. ""Mario Is Missing!"" marked Luigi's first starring role in a video game, followed by ""Luigi's Mansion"" (2001) and """" (2013). Nintendo later re-released the game for their own video game consoles. In the United States, The Software Toolworks had released the NES and SNES versions by June 1993. By October 1993, Mindscape had published NES and SNES versions in Europe. The SNES version used"
"every ""Super Mario"" game since. These include a multitude of power-ups and items that give Mario special magic powers such as fireball-throwing and size-changing into giant and miniature sizes. The ""Super Mario"" series is part of the greater ""Mario"" franchise. This includes other video game genres as well as media such as film, television, printed media and merchandise. Over 310 million copies of games in the ""Super Mario"" series have been sold worldwide, as of September 2015, making it the best-selling video game series in history. ""Super Mario Bros."" was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and is the"
"game appearances, Mario has made guest appearances in non-""Mario"" games, such as ""Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!"", where Mario is a referee. Mario appears as a playable character in ""NBA Street V3"" and ""SSX on Tour"". He makes countless cameo appearances in many forms in many games, such as portraits and statues in """", """", and """". The first appearance of Mario in other media than games was ""Saturday Supercade"", an animated television series produced by Ruby-Spears Productions in 1983. Each episode was composed of several shorter segments featuring video game characters from the golden age of video arcade games. Mario (voiced"
"Super Mario Adventures Super Mario Adventures is an anthology of comics that ran in ""Nintendo Power"" throughout 1992, featuring the characters from Nintendo's ""Mario"" series and based loosely on ""Super Mario World"". In 1993, the series was also serialized in ""CoroCoro Comic"" in Japanese, under the title . Charlie Nozawa, the artist who created the comics, is also known by the pen name Tamakichi Sakura. Kentaro Takekuma was responsible for the story, which follows Mario and Luigi as they attempt to rescue Princess Peach after she is kidnapped by Bowser with intent to marry her. It marks the second time"
"and is the first in the series to boast HD graphics. Possibly the most popular spin-off series in the franchise, the ""Mario Kart"" series began in 1992 and is currently the most successful and longest-running kart racing series, having sold over 100,000,000 copies worldwide. The first role-playing game in the ""Mario"" franchise was ""Super Mario RPG"". It has since expanded to the ""Paper Mario"" and ""Mario & Luigi"" series. is a series of RPG video games developed by Intelligent Systems and produced by Nintendo Software Planning & Development. The first game in the series, ""Paper Mario"", was launched in 2000"