In 1985,a little Italian plumber(水管工) became the face of video games, and changed the way we play them. "Super Mario Bros" saw the main characters in the game, Mario and Luigi, jump around the Mushroom Kingdom, collect coins and rush to save a princess from a bad turtle. The content was different from the simple gameplay of Snake or Pac-Man, where the aim was to eat and stay alive.
Mario originated as a
carpenter in the 1981 game "Donkey Kong", which was advanced for its
time. with retro(复旧 
）sound effects as Mario moved on challenging platforms. "At the time, video games were usually created by computer engineers, as opposed to today's artists," said Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer and producer of the "Super Mario Bros" and "Donkey Kong". As to why he picked a 26-year-old Italian-American plumber from New York as the main character, Miyamoto said," We wanted him to be someone who might live near you, and not a superhero."
The game's popularity really took off in 1985 when "Super Mario Bros" was released." People had never seen a game like Super Mario Bros." said Frank Cifaldi, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation," Super Mario Bros, despite having the same limitations as its peers(同辈),manages to convey a hard and long adventure in a large world." Super Mario Bros changed the way we play video games-from merely aiming for a high score to playing a game to experience an adventure and see it through to its ending, he said.
"For all the critics that may say video games are full of violence and killings, the moustached Mario remains the most globally identifiable face of the video game industry," added Miyamoto.
