1.) In real life Mario’s jump height would be over 25 feet tall! Researchers figured this out by calculating the amount of pixels in his person to his jump. Why hasn’t he been signed up for a basketball contract yet?
2.) In the Nintendo Mario franchise Bowser had a son named Bowser jr. What many people wondered was who was the mother of Bowser jr.? Shigeru Miyamoto, the developer of the old nintendo classics stated that Bowser is somehow Bowser jr.’s mother.
3.) Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak got into the top Tetris scores so many times that he was asked to stop to let other players get their high scores. However, he still got into the scores by spelling his name backwards.
4.) Luigi is a pun in Japanese, meaning similar. Luigi was named this way because the designers had so much trouble trying to make Mario’s brother that they combined the body shape of Mario with the color design of the Koopas.
5.) Before Mario had a name, he was known a Jumpman because he was the first character ever to jump up in a video game. Before he was known a Jumpman, he was names Ossan, which means “Middle-aged guy”.
6.) The voice actor for Cortana, Jen Taylor, was the voice of Princess Peach in the early 2000s.
7.) One of the most popular glitches in history occurred on a Mario game. You enter the wrong pipe and you get placed into a never ending, looping water level. This glitch is called the Minus World glitch.
-Dr. Porkchop