Fun facts about Super Mario

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Did you know? 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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10 facts about Super Mario

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    The clouds in the original Super Mario Bros. use the exact same sprite graphic as the bushes, just recolored from green to blue.
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    In the game Super Mario Bros. 3, the entire adventure is presented as if it is taking place on a literal stage play, complete with curtains rising at the start and platforms hanging from wires.
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    Mario has a twin brother named Luigi, but if you play as him, he is often portrayed as being physically afraid of ghosts while his brother is not.
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    Mario is technically a carpenter in his very first appearance in the game Donkey Kong, not a plumber.
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    Mario's signature mustache was added to his design because it was easier to see on a small screen than a mouth would have been.
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    During the development of the original Super Mario Bros., the team used a specialized grid-paper system to manually map out levels by hand before entering the data into the computer.
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    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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    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.
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    Mario was named after Mario Segale, the landlord of the warehouse Nintendo of America used as its first office in the 1980s.
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