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Mario's very first name was...Mr. Video
A portion of an Iwata Asks feature on New Super Mario Bros. Wii…
Iwata: So the entire design was a case of form being dictated by function. You can really see that your specialist field, industrial design, is evident in the final result. Then, because he jumped up and down, he became known as “Jumpman”, right?
Miyamoto: Well, I called him “Mr. Video”. My plan was to use the same character in every video game I made.