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Mario Segali photographed...not really
This is an amusing little story. For those that don’t know, Mario Segali was Nintendo of America’s warehouse landlord. This is the man that was said to inspire Nintendo to come up with the name of the now-famous koopa-stomping plumber. As far as anyone knows, there are no photos of Mr. Segali floating around out there.
This takes us to the amusing part. IGN decided to have a little fun with their info database. They have an entry for Mario Segali, and included a picture. The picture was just a quick photoshop of another IGN employee. The picture on the left was the one used for the Mario Segali profile.
The reason for doing this was to see if anyone picked up a story or Mr. Segali, and used the fake picture. Without fail, someone did indeed…it just so happened to be EGM.
A little harmless fun…hopefully. It would be a shame for someone to get in trouble for a silly joke.