So we all believed that Mario was originally named Jumpman, but that's not what Shigeru Miyamoto originally called him. He dubbed the character "Mr. Video" and had originally planned to have him appear in every game created by Miyamoto.

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The story goes that Mario was originally called "Jumpman." That's not what Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto called the character.

"Well, I called him 'Mr. Video'," Miyamoto said in the recent Iwata Asks feature on Nintendo's official site. "My plan was to use the same character in every video game I made."

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