FULL NAME: MARIO MARIO

COMPANY: NINTENDO

ARTIST: SHIGERU MYIMATO

MARIO, A GUY OF MANY TALENTS! HE'S BEEN IN ARCADE GAMES, ON THE BIG SCREEN AND EVEN IN YOUR OWM HOMES. BEFORE BECOMING A MASTER IN MANY VIDEO GAME CONSOLES HE APPEAARED IN THREE ARCADE GAMES, DONKEY KONG, DONKEY KONG JR., AND MARIO BROS. WHILE IN HIS EARLY GAMES HE TOOK MANY TRANSFORMATIONS SUCH AS TURNIG INTO A SQUIRREL AND A FROG. BUT A LITTLE LATER HE GOT POWERS SUCH AS FIREBALLS FROM A FIRE FLOWER AND FLYING ABILITY FROM A CAPE. 
NOW EVERY HERO NEEDS AN ENEMY, RIGHT! IN THE DONKEY KONG GAMES MARIO HAD TO SAVE A GIRL NAMED DAISY FROM AN EVIL MONKEY CALLED DONKEY KONG. IN ALL THE LATER GAMES BOWSER, AN AWESOME BAD GUY, WHO WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM, BUT MARIO ALWAYS STOPS HIM.
SOMETIMES MARIO AS A SPORT STAR IN GAMES LIKE MARIO TENNIS AND MARIO GOLF. HE ALWAY'S HAS FUN IN ALL HIS GAMES PROBALY BECAUSE HE USALLY GETS A KISS FROM THE GIRL HE SAVES.