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No doubt Super Mario Bros is one of the most popular characters in the gaming world. It has become an icon of Nintendo and the image of the Olympic Games in Japan that were to be played in the second half of 2020.
Of course, many fans believed that this character and his brother Luigi were of Italian nationality, but an NES designer confirmed that this is not the case in a recent interview with the medium Kotaku.
Despite constantly saying “mamma mia” he is not Italian. Masayuki Uemura commented that “Super Mario Bros. is not set in Japan, but its character is Japanese. The name Mario sounds Italian, but it is not Italian. They were really able to capture that ambiguity”.
“The amount of pixels that could be used to draw the characters was extremely limited, so Miyamoto was forced to use colors to differentiate them. He spent a lot of time working on colors. In the end, became the template for how a designer could express himself through a game. It was a whole new world“Adds the designer.
Of course, Nintendo has yet to come out to clarify the true nationality of the mustache character. So it is still a big unsolved mystery.
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