If you know what a computer is, you probably have heard about the Nintendo’s cute mascot, Mario.  Mario is a legendary game character that played the leading actor in over 200 games for over 30 years. 

The character Mario was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, a Japanese game designer in 1981 for the game Donkey Kong.  After this game, in 1983, the game Mario Bros was released.  This game was the first game where the actual name of our hero, Mario, was used.  Moreover, a new character Luigi who was the brother of Mario was added to the game.  Mario Brothers did not became popular until 1985 when Nintendo released the game for its well known video console.

Super Mario Bros and Nintendo were a huge success.  Mario was an Italian plummer in the game and a resident of the Mushroom Kingdom.  Just like many computer games of that period, a princess was kidnapped by a bad guy and Mario was trying to save her to have a romantic relation with the princess:)

Super Mario Bros sold about 40 million copies.  Many copycats of the game was created.  Super Mario Bros still holds the Guinness World Record for the best selling video game of all times.

After this success,  followers of Super Maro Bros were released; Super Mario Bros 2 in 1988 and Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990.

After many versions of Marios releases, in 1996, Nintendo released the Super Mario 3-D on its Nintendo 64 video game console.  The game was the first platform game that supported 3-D and allowed for free roaming in large open environments.  The theme, however, was quite romantic and heroic aiming to save the captured princess.

Super Mario Bros was released for GameCube (Super Mario SunShine) and Wii (Super Mario Galaxy) , successful game consoles of Nintendo with greater details and technology.

This was a very short summary of the knol written by Kevin Spaulding.  Full knol can be read here.