Undoubtedly, Mario is one of those very few legendary games which always will be contemporary to the world. It becomes the most popular game franchise created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and owned by   Nintendo. Mario is an Italian short mid-20s moustache man, a plumber by profession resides in the Mushroom Kingdom. The Mario franchise on whole is considered to be the best selling video game franchise ever. You must have loved the game over the ages. So, here are the 12 exciting facts about Mario which you may not have known. Being a Mario fan, you will be fascinated with these surprising facts about the epic video game.

1. The popular game-cult character ‘ Mario’ first appeared in another well-known classic video game Donkey Kong. He is called there as ‘Jumpman’ where he was a carpenter instead of Plumber, as earlier known in Mario.
2. When you say ‘Mario Brother’, it addresses both the Mario and his younger brother Luigi which means that Mario’s full name is Mario Mario as his last name is ‘Mario’.
3. Luigi, known as Mario’s brother and used as Player 2 in the game Super Mario Bros. was supposed to be an exact copy of Mario. Apparently, when it comes to design his clothes, Nintendo couldn’t manage to get those colours as they didn’t have much memory to add colours or wasn’t much left in the palette. So basically, Luigi has borrowed his green colour from the green shell of Koopa.
4. Mario has this huge moustache and a cap for a reason. The creator of the character was getting problems designing or drawing his hairs, so he decided to go for a cap. Similarly, he drew moustache as it was easier to appear on screen than a mouth.
5. The real age of Mario is 25 years old according to their makers as mentioned in one of their interviews in 2005. Now you know he is not as old as you think he is.

1. Mario was named after the landlord of the creator who was once barged into his office meeting to get his rent.
2. Even the Shigeru Miyamoto is considered as ‘father’ of Mario but he has not much do with it. The game ‘Mario’ was actually developed by Gunpei Yokoi.
3. In Japenese version of Mario, You can actually eat those dolphins which were immune by Yoshi’s tongue in US version of the game. It is because US citizens were quite attached to the Dolphins, so showing a game character to swallow dolphins wouldn’t have been a good move.
4. The rolling firebars in Super Mario Bros. is stolen from another classic game ‘ The Legend of Zelda’ as you can see the similarity.
5. Mario Bros. might be inspired by the anime released in 1986 which predicted the future of the franchise to be very much high.
6. Mario has been appeared in more than 200 video games so far with over 139 Million copies of the game. The character even had is own TV show.
7. When there was time at the rise of Soviet Union, Nintendo even considered changing the colour of Mario’s dress, red to some other colour in fear of seem supporting communism.