SUPER MARIO

MARIO WAS ORIGINALLY A CARPENTER,

NOT A PLUMBER. HE'S ALSO APPEARED AS A

DOCTOR IN THE 1990 PUZZLE TITLE

DR MARIO AND ITS SEQUELS.

THE CHAIN CHOMP IS SAID TO BE BASED ON A

NEIGHBOURHOOD DOG CHAINED TO A POST

THAT TERRORIZED SHIGERU MIYAMOTO,

MARIO´S CREATOR, AS A CHILD.

TALKING ABOUT THE CHAIN CHOMP, IF YOU LET HIM TUG

ON ITS CHAIN 49 TIMES IN SUPER MARIO BROS. 3,

IT WILL BREAK FREE AND ATTACK MARIO.

COMPOSED BY KOJI KONDO, THE ICONIC SUPER MARIO

BROS SOUNDTRACK THEME KNOWN AS 'GROUND THEME',

IS ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE PIECES OF GAME

MUSIC EVER RECORDED. THE TUNE REMAINED IN THE

BILLBOARD RINGTONE CHARTS FOR 125 WEEKS.

A Q SCORE SURVEY IN THE EARLY NINETIES REVEALED

THAT MARIO WAS MORE RECOGNIZABLE TO AMERICAN

CHILDREN THAN MICKEY MOUSE, THE DISNEY´S

ICONIC CHARACTER.

BOWSER, THE MAIN ANTAGONIST OF THE SUPER MARIO

BROS SERIES, HAS ALSO APPEARED AS A GOOD GUY.

HE HELPS MARIO IN THE 1996 TITLE SUPER MARIO RPG:

LEGEND OF THE SEVEN STARS.

THE GAME´S BACK STORY IS DARKER THAN YOU

MIGHT THINK. BOWSER AND THE KOOPAS ARE

ACTUALLY BLACK MAGIC WIELDING WIZARDS WHO

TURN EVERYONE IN THE KINGDOM INTO BUSHES,

BLOCKS AND MUSHROOMS. THE GOOMBAS ARE

CORRUPTED DENIZENS OF THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM

TURNED INTO TWISTED LITTLE CHESTNUT MEN.

BULLET BILL AND TORPEDO TED ARE THOUGHT TO BE

A REFERENCE TO BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE,

A 1989 AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION COMEDY.