Mario Origins: New Details About The Making Of Donkey Kong

Before he was known as Super Mario, he was Little Mario, protagonist of Donkey Kong. But originally the game was going to star Popeye The Sailor. And most surprisingly, the jumping mechanic probably wasn't designer Shigeru Miyamoto's idea.

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0:00​ Cold Open
1:00 Bailing Out Nintendo Of America
4:00 Replacing Radar Scope
6:34 Contracting Ikegami Tsushinki
10:11 Making Mario
12:10 But Why Not Mickey Mouse?

MUSIC:
○ Fast Talking
○ Cool Vibes
○ Backed Vibes Clean
○ Spy Glass
○ Deadly Roulette
○ Dances And Dames
○ Walking Along
○ Faster Does It
○ The Descent
○ Fearless First
○ I Knew A Guy
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0(creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

○ Popeye The Sailorman by Spinach Power