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Originally Posted by Flip
I never understood why it's called Super MARIO Bros, which would indicate that MARIO is their last name. But if Mario and Luigi are their first names and let's say Rigatoni was their last name, then wouldn't it be the Super Rigatoni Bros? On that note, what is thier last name?
And what is Princess Toadstool's first name? It's not Princess is it? And why is Toad named Toad, when he's not even a frog?
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Well, originally mario wasn't mario at all. He was jumpman when he was in the game Donkey Kong. but when nintendo released him in america they needed to give him a more marketable name. So they called him mario. Then when the NES came out, they wanted 2 player action so they kept the marketable name (mario) and made them brothers. hence the mario brothers. i'm sure at that point they didn't care about the details of the family tree.
Super Mario Brothers came along with the NES sequel where you adventured through worlds riddled with bottomless pits that you had to jump over and pipes you could climb into (rather than jumping from platform to platform) like in the original mario bros (which was really a hybrid of the original donkey kong).
This kind of stuff happens. The hit game "tetris attack" was called Panel de pon in Japan. But they changed the name for americans and put yoshi on the forefront. go figure. the game isn't even anything close to 'tetris'