Fact Bomb of the Day FBOTD: Super Mario
In Super Mario, the iconic 'Goomba' enemy was the very last thing added to the original game. Developers only added them because they realized they needed an enemy that was easy to defeat for the very first level!
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More facts about Super Mario
- Mario was named after Mario Segale, the landlord of the warehouse Nintendo of America used as its first office in the 1980s.
- In the original Super Mario Bros. manual, the story claims that the villainous King Bowser transformed the Mushroom Kingdom citizens into bricks, meaning Mario is actually smashing his own friends to bits every time he breaks a block.
- Mario wears a hat because Shigeru Miyamoto, his creator, found hair very difficult to animate at the low resolution of the early 1980s.
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