Shigeru Miyamoto:
(born November 16, 1952) - Japanese video game designer and producer and creator of Donkey Kong, Starfox, Zelda, F-Zero (one of the inspirations for creating the being known as Frank Zero ; ) Pikmin, Wii, and MARIO. He grew up in Kyoto, a prefecture of Japan in Kansai on the Island of Honshu. A place that he has said inspired the landscapes of Mario's world.
Miyamoto currently manages the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development department, overseeing many of Nintendo's most highly profitable games. His work has appeared on every single Nintendo console and gaming platform. From years of all that revolutionary work in Nintendo, he has gained praise from the official and fan based communities of Nintendo.
Initially Miyamato wanted to use Popeye ( patch on eyesirus) and the gang but due to legal discrepancies, (later he acquired those rights in 1982) he had to create a new character Mr.Video. Mr.Video, in many ways was the prototype for what we now know as Mario. He also created Donkey Kong and a game called Pauline at that time.
When Donkey Kong first launched, Mario wasn't able to jump, so there became more of a focus on escaping a MAZE. Eventually Miyamato added Mario's ability to jump.
If the cubicle is the beginning of human batteries, is the virtual maze our holographic prison?
Odd Switch of Identities:
Mr. Video gives in to legal problems, switches his name to Mario
Miyamato had no problem with this change in name, lacking some faith in his original name for the character. He believed Mario's profession really fit the game's design.
"Miyamoto commented that if he had named Mario "Mr. Video", Mario likely would have "disappeared off the face of the Earth."-from wikipedia for Mario
"Since Donkey Kong was set on a construction site, Mario was made into a carpenter. When he appeared again in Mario Bros., it was decided he should be a plumber, since a lot of the game is played in underground settings. Mario's character design, particularly his large nose, draws on western influences; once he became a plumber, Miyamoto decided to "put him in New York" and make him Italian, lightheartedly attributing Mario's nationality to his mustache. Other sources have Mario's profession chosen to be carpenter in an effort to depict the character as an ordinary hard worker, and make it easier for players to identify with him. After a colleague suggested that Mario more closely resembled a plumber, Miyamoto changed Mario's profession accordingly and developed Mario Bros., featuring the character in the sewers of New York City."
Interesting how the in a quasi religious text the old arcade machine is like a monolith the human stares into it or monkey/donkey Kong stares out of it. Like King Kong ascending a great tower or pillarmyd. Lightning may strike the tower, which has it's own resonance of course, but here we have the one of the first games being based around a Donkey in a construction site, not unlike the one on the Moon in 2001 or in some weird Planet of the Apes metaphor, and he is confronted with a split personality plumber (traveler of underground realms) or carpenter (Jesus/another born and resurrected/related to stargates or Masonic symbolism)
"Due to the graphical limitations of arcade hardware at the time, Miyamoto clothed the character in red overalls and a blue shirt to contrast against each other and the background. A red cap was added to let Miyamoto avoid drawing the character's hairstyle, forehead, and eyebrows, as well as to circumvent the issue of animating his hair as he jumped. To make him appear human onscreen despite his small size, Mario was given distinct features, prominently a large nose and a mustache, which avoided the need to draw a mouth and facial expressions on the small onscreen character."
"Miyamoto developed Mario with the idea of using him as a "go to" character that could be put into any title as needed, albeit in cameo appearances, as at the time Miyamoto was not expecting Mario to become popular. To this end, he originally called the character "Mr. Video", comparing his intent to have Mario appear in later games (like the) the cameos done by Alfred Hitchcock within Hitchcock's films. Over time, Mario's appearance has become more defined; white gloves, brown shoes, a red "M" in a white circle on the front of his hat and gold buttons on his overalls have been added. The colors of his shirt and overalls were also reversed from a blue shirt with red overalls to a red shirt with blue overalls. Miyamoto attributed this process to the different development teams and artists for each game as well as advances in technology as time has gone on. "Mario was originally portrayed as a two-dimensional sprite, but in later games, he is shown as a three-dimensional, polygonal model. He is depicted as a portly plumber who lives in the fictional land of the Mushroom Kingdom with Luigi, his younger, taller brother. In the television series and film, Mario and Luigi are originally from Brooklyn, New York. Little is known of Mario's childhood, though the infant version of Mario, Baby Mario, first appeared in 1995 in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and has often appeared in Nintendo sports games since that time. Baby Mario has a major role along with Baby Luigi in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and appears in Yoshi's Island DS. He (along with the adult Mario) is voiced by Charles Martinet."wiki
"Nintendo has never revealed Mario's full name, stating only that it was not "Mario Mario" despite the implication of the Mario Bros. series' title, its use in the live-action film adaptation, and information given in the Prima official Guidebook to Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga."
"During the American Revolution, many important political discussions took place in the inns and taverns of Philadelphia. The discussion that founded the Marine Corps is no exception. A committee of the Continental Congress met at Tun Tavern to draft a resolution calling for two battalions of Marines able to fight for independence at sea and on shore. The resolution was approved on November 10, 1775, officially forming the Continental Marines.
As the first order of business, Samuel Nicholas became Commandant of the newly formed Marines. Tun Tavern's owner and popular patriot, Robert Mullan, became his first captain and recruiter. They began gathering support and were ready for action by early 1776."
We already know that green doors can be associated with secrecy, intimate secrets, military secrets, etc... Steve Wilner and Jake Kotze see Mario, as a stargate traveler and also a magical mushroom ingesting psychonaut. Mario, besides crossing many checkered chess game designs and entering actual mirrors, and rainbow bridges (Asgard) ... uses green pipes to move from this world to the underworld. The one, of course where "Nightmare Hall(s)" await him at the deepest levels... Reptilian humanoids who want his scarlet woman for hybridization if their nice, sacrifice on the Midnight Meat Train if their not. Both if they saw too many Christopher Lee 70's horror flicks.
These green pipes can be seen as green doors to the world we don't know exist, or the "secret" world.
The idea here being this older Greek mythological idea of the maze and Minotaur.
1981-1990
In Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario quests to save the rulers of seven kingdoms from Bowser and his children, the Koopalings, and Mario travels across eight worlds to restore order to the Mushroom World and to rescue Princess Peach. Mario is introduced to new power-ups that augment his abilities"2006–present
The Princess is repeatedly taken to the center of the universe where Koopa establishes a new base and Mario starts talking to stars
Mario and Luigi Partners in Time 2009
"Although the sequel to Superstar Saga, the game's plot is unrelated to that of its predecessor and has a much darker tone, with an emphasis on the time-traveling theme, which involves the protagonists traveling between the past and present of the Mushroom Kingdom. The adventure follows Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi as they search for Princess Peach, who has been abducted by an alien species known as the Shroobs"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_%26_Luigi:_Partners_in_Time
Mortal Kombat, the popular game which got so much beef in the early 90's for being ultra violent is centered around immortal beings who put warriors through fights to the death, only to steal their souls to feed their reptilian shape-shifting agents and magicians. The game makes no secret of it's need for bloodshed and this being considered progressive in the game. The MK abbreviation resonates MK Ultra or the first two German letters for mind control. The game also infers this reoccurring theme of Mortal Kombat, to feed the immortals, often through blood rites. A theme that can be found in the "reptilian" contact field, and films such as Midnight Meat Train, Cabin in the Woods, and many more...(usually of the 70's Hammer film variety).
Killer Instinct a game just directly about the lower chakra attributes of survival stars a host of literal dinosaurs and a few other zany creatures, like a T-1000 type techno-organic silvery/Abyss type creature
Mortal Kombat, the popular game which got so much beef in the early 90's for being ultra violent is centered around immortal beings who put warriors through fights to the death, only to steal their souls to feed their reptilian shape-shifting agents and magicians. The game makes no secret of it's need for bloodshed and this being considered progressive in the game. The MK abbreviation resonates MK Ultra or the first two German letters for mind control. The game also infers this reoccurring theme of Mortal Kombat, to feed the immortals, often through blood rites. A theme that can be found in the "reptilian" contact field, and films such as Midnight Meat Train, Cabin in the Woods, and many more...(usually of the 70's Hammer film variety).
Killer Instinct a game just directly about the lower chakra attributes of survival stars a host of literal dinosaurs and a few other zany creatures, like a T-1000 type techno-organic silvery/Abyss type creature
Killer Instinct a game just directly about the lower chakra attributes of survival stars a host of literal dinosaurs and a few other zany creatures, like a T-1000 type techno-organic silvery/Abyss type creature
"In Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Mario saves Princess Toadstool (later known as Princess Peach) of the Mushroom Kingdom from King Koopa. To save Princess Toadstool, Mario conquers the eight worlds of the Mushroom Kingdom by going to the castle in each to defeat a minion of King Koopa. To reach each castle, Mario battles through three sub-worlds by defeating King Koopa's henchmen. If Mario successfully fights his way through the castle and defeats the minion, he frees a Mushroom Retainer"
1989-1995
In Super Mario Land an alien named Tatanga appears, hypnotizes the inhabitants of an area called Sarasaland, and kidnaps its ruler, Princess Daisy. Mario then sets out to rescue her from Tatanga, traveling through the four geographical areas of Sarasaland and defeating Tatanga's minions along the way. He finally corners Tatanga in the skies of the Chai kingdom, bringing down Tatanga's alien warship and rescuing Daisy
In Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, whose events take place immediately after the original Super Mario Land, Mario's evil counterpart Wario has put an evil spell over Mario Land while Mario was away in Sarasaland, renaming the area Wario Land. The inhabitants are now brainwashed into thinking that Wario is their master and Mario is their enemy. Wario's motive behind this sudden attack was to take control over Mario's castle in order to have one of his own.
1996-2002
Many of the castle's paintings are portals to other worlds, in which Bowser's minions guard the stars. Mario explores the castle and these other worlds to recover the stars. He gains access to more painting portals as he recovers more stars, and he traverses three obstacle courses that lead him to battles with Bowser.
In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario, Toadsworth, and Princess Peach take a vacation to Isle Delfino, a tropical island. A person resembling Mario, known as "Shadow Mario", vandalizes and pollutes the entire island using a magic paintbrush. The vandalism has also caused the Shine Sprites to flee from the island's main city, Delfino Plaza, and blanket the island in darkness. Blamed for the mess, Mario is arrested by the island authorities and ordered to clean up Isle Delfino.
"Mario went to 2.5D in New Super Mario Bros. While Mario and Peach take a walk together through the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser Jr. kidnaps Peach and flees. Mario gives chase, venturing through eight worlds. Mario eventually catches up, defeating both Bowser and Bowser Jr. and rescuing Peach. In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario is invited by Princess Peach to the centennial Star Festival in the Mushroom Kingdom. Upon arrival, Bowser invades the kingdom and rips Peach's castle from its foundations and lifts it into outer space. After failing to prevent the princess from being kidnapped, Mario meets star-like creatures called Lumas and their companion, Rosalina. Rosalina tells Mario that Bowser has stolen the Power Stars, the source of power for Rosalina's mobile observatory, and has taken Peach to the center of the universe. Mario then travels to various galaxies to reclaim the Power Stars to restore power to the observatory and reclaim Princess Peach."
"In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, another 2.5D game, Mario, Luigi, and two Toads are attending Princess Peach's birthday party when Bowser Jr. and the other seven Koopalings ambush the princess and kidnap her. Mario, Luigi, and the two Toads chase after them across eight worlds, defeating each Koopaling as they progress. The quartet eventually confronts Bowser, defeating him and reclaiming the princess. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Bowser, who has transformed himself into a giant using the Power Stars, attacks the Mushroom Kingdom and abducts Peach, taking her to the center of the universe. With the help of the Lumas, Mario pilots Starship Mario, a mobile planet in the shape of his head, in order to travel to various galaxies and gather the Power Stars, used to fuel the ship. After multiple battles against both Bowser and Bowser Jr., Mario eventually arrives at Bowser's lair at the center of the universe, where he defeats him and rescues the princess. In 2012, Mario returned in New Super Mario Bros. 2 where he collects one million coins that are scattered across the Mushroom Kingdom in addition to saving Princess Peach from the evil clutches of Bowser and the Koopalings. Mario returns once more to defeat Bowser and his minions in New Super Mario Bros. U."
