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22 Mario is the face of video gaming; he is more popular than Mickey Mouse. He’s appeared in 200 games, collectively selling over 200 million units. He’s launched consoles and was in the first true 3D game. Six out of the top-ten bestselling videogames of all time are Mario games. He’s even got his own cartoon series and a movie. But how did the legend of The Super Mario Bros begin? Let’s find out! ow
JUMPMAN! EVIl MARIO Mario was born after Nintendo lost the license to make a Popeye the Sailor-Man game. Since the game was already created, they replaced the Popeye characters with their own. So a giant gorilla replaced Bluto while Popeye the Sailor-Man became Jumpman, a carpenter leaping over barrels and scaling his construction site to rescue ‘Lady’. When the game was going to be released in America in 1981, Nintendo realised that ‘Jumpman’ might not be so popular there; the character needed a real name. The breakthrough came when their landlord burst into a board meeting, demanding rent. The man’s name was Segali… Mario Segali.
It's-a Luigi! Luigi was born when Miyamoto wanted to create a second character for the game. He just took Mario and swapped his colours to create an identical ‘brother’. There are lots of stories on how Luigi got his name, from a play on the Japanese word for ‘analogous’ to a pizza parlour called Mario & Luigi’s. Regardless, the twins went to work clearing underground pipes in Mario Bros., their first own game.
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Well before Mario became the official mascot of Nintendo, Donkey Kong was king of the gaming world. Back then games were usually played at arcades and the home console wasn’t really popular or cheap. People would crowd arcades to have a go at the Donkey Kong game. When Donkey Kong Jr. was released in 1983, Mario was actually a villain in the game!
Super Mario Bros. In October 1985 the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the first Nintendo home console was released in America. Everyone expected the NES to be a big flop but it didn’t, instead it flew off the shelves. All because of one game, Super Mario Bros. Tiny Mario jumped, squished, and travelled through eight huge worlds to rescue her. Super Mario Bros. was so popular that tens of millions of Nintendo systems were sold across the United States. Up next was Super Mario Bros. 2. It was so difficult that Nintendo cancelled it and converted another game into a Mario game. But American gamers didn’t notice the difference and the game was a hit. Then came Super Mario Bros. 3, it was designed for Mario from the start. In this game Mario could get Frog and Tanooki suits, which gave him the ability to fly, swim and hide. It soon became the second best selling videogame of all time.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created Mario, intended him to be his go-to character, a slightly pudgy, silly-looking fellow who could easily fit into any game as needed. Accordingly, he designed his little carpenter with a thick mustache, a round nose, a bright costume and a hat. But Mario’s occupation didn’t feel right. When a colleague told Miyamoto that his creation looked more like a plumber, it immediately stuck.
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In 1991, Nintendo released their new console, the e Super Nin Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). Super Mario io World arrived in 1991 alongside the SNES, and gamers were introduced to Mario’s best friend, Yoshi.
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Super Mario 64 was the first game set completely in a 3D environment. Using the Nintendo 64 analogue controller, players could now walk, run, crouch, creep, swim, crawl, climb and more. Not only that, Mario could talk! Mario found his voice when actor Charles Martinet crashed the last audition of the day. Told to do the voice of a plumber from Brooklyn, Martinet instead went on and on about how to “make a-pizza pie.” His tape was the only one sent to Nintendo.
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In Super Mari Mario Sunshine, Mario and Peach took a the Mushroom Kingdom and visited a break from th tropical island resort. Mario has lots of new abilities, popular being FLUDD, a backpack that the most pop was strapped to Mario that allowed him to squirt enemies with water. New characters were also such as Bowser Jr and Toadsworth. introduced su
In 2001, Luigi finally got his very own game. He appeared in Luigi’s Mansion on the Nintendo Gamecube. Having won a mansion in a contest he didn’t even enter, Luigi enters the Boo Woods and fights off the ghosts with a vacuum. The game got a sequel this year, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, on the Nintendo 3DS.
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Over the years, Mario played football, basketball,, tennis and golf. He became a doctor, a fighter and a racer. In 2007, he even started bouncing between planets. Super Mario Galaxy was the next in the main series of Mario games after Super Mario Sunshine. In the game, Mario had to o collect Power Stars from different planets. The game was so popular that it was soon followed by a sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2.
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In 2011, Nintendo released Super Mario 3D Land. This game, a mixture of 2D and 3D, became the fastest selling Mario handheld game in history. Later this year, Nintendo will release Super Mario 3D World for the Nintendo Wii U. This is the first 3D Mario game where four players can play the same level simultaneously. Along with the Fire Flower and Tanooki Suit, a Cat Suit will also be introduced. It allows players to climb walls, run faster, perform new attacks.
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4 3D Paper Star!! Paper, paper everywhere! We tend to waste so much paper, which is why here at ToffeeTV, we keep a watch on out for all the fun activities we can do to recycle and reuse it for our benefit! In today’s activity, ToffeeTV’s Ayesha Mehmood will teach you how to make a 3D Origami Star!
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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny from across the globe!
Hey! There is a llama in my room! Forget the elephant in the room… one hotel is offering a llama as standard with your stay. Guests not only get breakfast included in their room but a curly haired, big-toothed beast thrown in as well. And for £40 a night, visitors to the family-run business can always expect some convivial company while they enjoy their tea and toast or full English in the morning. Owner Mary Walker said: ‘It’s like being with a friend. The animals are so relaxing and put you at ease.’ She opened Llama’s Pyjamas next to her trekking centre in Penrith, Cumbria, where 18 of the domesticated South American mammals are housed. ‘People expect them to be like horses but they are such gentle creatures,’ said Ms Walker, 59. ‘They are classed as the dolphins of the animal world. ‘They’re like no other animal you will have handled before. They bond with you and cuddle and kiss you but, in the same way, they aren’t in your face.’ The family have been running the Llama Karma Kafe and visitor centre for 20 years and spotted a gap in the market for a B&B. Ms Walker said: ‘We have styled it in a PeruvianMoroccan theme to fit in with the llamas’ home soil. It’s quirky and different and everyone who meets the llamas wants to take them home.’
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With increasing rents contributing to a growing housing crisis in the capital, these Londoners appear to have taken extreme measures to get on the property ladder. Hanging from the ledges of a Victorian townhouse, this group were in fact posing as part of a three-dimensional visual illusion installed in an east London street. The precarious poses were created with a giant mirror by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich, who was appointed to create the Dalston House project by the Barbican Centre. Resembling a theatre set, members of the public are encouraged to lie horizontally on the ground with mirrors positioned overhead. The reflections of visitors give the impression they are standing on, suspended from, or scaling the building vertically. ‘We are thrilled to be able to present Leandro Erlich’s work in the heart of Hackney,’ explained Barbican Art Gallery curator Jane Alison. ‘Dalston House is a theatrical spectacle, one where the audience makes the show. It is a delightful experience suitable for all ages.’ Erlich’s Dalston House art installation will be open to the public until August 4. GUARDIAN.CO.UK
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Clearly, walking on water isn’t enough of a challenge for mind-blowing magician Dynamo. The master of levitation has done the seemingly impossible again… this time by walking on air while holding the side of the upper deck of a bus. Dynamo pulled off his latest stunt today as the number 543 bus, seemingly with open-mouthed passengers on the top deck, travelled through London. The 30-year-old TV illusionist looked utterly at ease with only his hand placed on the bus roof to stop him falling into the traffic below. Shoppers and tourists could barely believe their eyes as he passed alongside the Houses of Parliament before crossing Westminster Bridge. ‘The reaction of the public as I was travelling was incredible. It was great to see so many people taking in the excitement,’ said the Yorkshire-born conjurer. The illusionist is probably best known for his documentary show Dynamo: Magician Impossible and for walking on the river Thames in 2011. Other tricks in his repertoire include transporting a mobile phone into a glass beer bottle and bringing paper butterflies to life. NEWS.COM.AU
If you invited your friends to join you for a day of Okie noodling, they probably wouldn’t bite your hand off. But getting their hands bitten is the aim of the game for devotees of the secretive sport, who stick their arms into murky river hidey-holes hoping 13kg (30lbs) catfish will grab hold. They then try to haul the blunt-toothed beasts out of the water so their friends can drag them aboard a boat. Photographer Bradley Beesley has organised a noodling contest to celebrate the bizarre pastime after becoming fascinated with it in Oklahoma, US. ‘I was visiting some relatives when I saw some washing their scraped and bloody arms,’ he said. ‘They told me they had been noodling and asked if I wanted to see their fish. ‘I was afraid to touch catfish because I thought their fins would sting. But my cousin said, “Get in that ole creek bank and work ’em out the best you can”.’ If all this sounds about as much fun as… well, getting bitten by an angry fish, you’ll be relieved to learn that the hobby is unlikely to go mainstream. METRO.CO.UK
Books and Movies
by Faiza Rahman
Will the real Cinderella please stand up? As a child, Cinderella was my favorite heroine. I had watched the Disney movie so many time that’s I knew every dialogue by heart. But for all this time, I was pretty much unfamiliar with the ‘real’ Cinderella story. Though the Disney movie promised me hours of delight, it did not paint a true picture of Cinderella’s life for me. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon a dusty volume by Brothers Grimm that I learnt that the original tale, recorded in the 19th century from French oral tradition, is devoid of the wicked cat Lucifer, Cinderella’s horse Major, the fat king, or the
grand duke. Not only are the characters dissimilar, the plot is also quite different. Did you know that Cinderella’s famous pair of shoes was not made of glass, but of gold? Moreover, when the Prince went searching for Cinderella her stepsister cut off her own toes in order to make her feet fit in the slippers. It was only when the Prince saw her foot bleed that he realised she was not Cinderella. Imagine! agine! Meanwhile, the other stepsister psister cut off her heel to achieve the same purpose. In her case too, the he Prince noticed a stream of blood from the slippers and learnt thatt he had been tricked. I’m not surprised ised that Disney decided to leave outt this gory bit from the movie. Are re you?
Do you have a favourite book that was made into a movie? Send an email about it to Faiza at hifive@tribune.com.pk
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s n i g i r O d r o W A Fact vs A Factoid Did you know that there is a big difference between a fact and a factoid. “Fact” obviously means something that is unquestionably true, or as Webster more eloquently puts it, it is the “quality of being actual”. “Factoid” however means something slightly different. The first definition is, “an invented fact, believed to be true because of its appearance in print.” This was the original definition coined in 1973 by Norman Mailer. Mailer described a factoid as “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper”. However, thanks in large part to news channels including “factoids” in their news casts referring to trivial bits of factual information, there is now a second “official” definition of “factoid” as follows (from MerriamWebster): “a briefly stated and usually trivial fact.”
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Cool facts A Galapagos tortoise that died in 2006 at a zoo was originally owned as a pet by Charles Darwin in 1835! We actually live about 80 milliseconds in the past because that’s how long it takes our brains to process information. A teenager has changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined. Russia is the same size as Pluto. There actually exists a Pizza Hut perfume that smells like a box of fresh Pizza Hut pizza being opened. Muhammad Ali gave his first Olympic medal to his old high school teacher who had previously said “you ain’t never gonna be nuthin.” Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has more money than Prince Harry, the Prince of Wales. For every human killed by sharks, 2 million sharks have been killed by humans.
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How carefully did you read this week’s issue of HiFive? If you think you are upto the task, try to solve our special crossword. The answers are all over HiFive! Put on your thinking caps, it is time to put the old noggin to work!
Across 2. Mary Walker opened a hotel in Cumbria called Llama’s ________ _ 4. Mario first talked in Super______ 64 5. Mario is the face of video gaming; he is more popular than Mickey _______ 10. A ______ is something that is unquestionably true 12. A ________ tortoise that died in 2006 was originally a pet of Charles Darwin in 1835! 13. Russia is the same size as _______ 14. Mario was born after Nintendo lost the license to make a ______ the Sailor-Man game 16. We actually live about 80 milliseconds in the past because that’s how long it takes our brains to process ___________ 18. Over the years, Mario played football, basketball, ______ and golf 19. A teenager has changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman _________ Hulk And The Flash Combined 20. In Super Mario World gamers were introduced to Mario’s best friend, ________
Down 1. What contest did photographer Bradley Beesley organise? A _______ contest 3. The first definition for a factoid is, “an invented fact, believed to be true because of its ___________ in print.” 6. In Super Mario 3D World, a _______ Suit will also be introduced 7. In Super Mario ________, Mario and Peach took a break from the Mushroom Kingdom and visited a tropical island resort 8. The second official definition of a _______ is: “a briefly stated and usually trivial fact.” 9. Super Mario 64 was the first game set ________ in a 3D environment. 11. In Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario could get Frog and _______ suits 15. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) has more money than Prince Harry, the_______ of Wales. 17. In Luigi’s Mansion on the Nintendo Gamecube, Luigi wins a _______
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