How video game characters got their names

[ZuZu 10]

More after the jump.

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[quote]As some people who follow this blog may have noticed

[Sahaqiel 1232]

Gannon was a typo. It was correct in the manual.
Sahaqiel

[Arcane 12]

Interesting....

Also, I could've sworn that I heard somewhere that "Koopa" means "annoying" in Japanese....

[Otis McNutt 395]

Mario was originally called Jump Man in Donkey Kong. He was named Mario in the US because of his resemblence to NOA's landlord at the time. Luigi was named after a pizza resturant NOA employees ate at. I heard that on History Channels History of Video Games special. They also talked at length about Zelda.

[Magnus 0]

My eyes hurt.... should've read this not on my Wii =\

Anyway, its still good information

[Adr990 2]

Cool.

-- I updated the Post with the category, Video Games.

[ZuZu 10]

Thanks Adr:D

[AarghZombies 0]

Interesting article. I'll def go on to read the whole thing, might take me a while though!