The first movie’s Mario meets Paper Mario meets 2D Mario meets N64 Mario meets Jumpman, after Bowser rampages across the ...

Super Mario was originally called Jumpman until Nintendo decided it wanted to give the character a proper name. Mr Segale said it was Minoru Arakawa, who had been tasked with setting up Nintendo ...

though Mario was known as Jumpman back then. In the movie, the name of this arcade game has been changed … to Jump Man. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

Created by Shigeru Miyamoto while he was developing Donkey Kong (which, incidentally, was supposed to be a game based on Popeye), Mario was first ... version and "Jumpman" in the English instructions.

In 1981, Mario made his debut in Donkey Kong, as a man trying to save his girlfriend from his pet gorilla. His name was initially Jumpman, and his job was to climb up ladders and avoid barrels ...