A little History

Why did emerge Super Mario Bros?

The original story is about an Arabian family who must save two of their members because they were caught, and they must be facing different challenges and enemies. Each family member is replaced by Mario characters. For the main character, the father of the family would use Mario, for the mother would use the character of Princess Peach, for the son, would be used to Toad, a small servant of the royal court of the Mushroom Kingdom, and finally, the character of the eldest child, would use Luigi, Mario's younger brother.

But now, talking about what inspired to the creator Miyamoto, be can say that he inspired in the adventures of his childhood.

Later we understand the process by which Mario born, but in summary Mario was the solution to the problem of Nintendo, although first he was a secondary character in other videogame, he was be more important and striking for the video gamers that the same main character.

Who was the creator? 

The creator of Super Mario Bros is Shigeru Miyamoto, born November 16, 1953 in Sonobe, a town in Kyoto (Japan), within a humble family. From a young age he developed a passion for drawing, painting and nature, mostly due to the lack of a TV in his home, which influenced his later work.

At 18 years old is part of the industrial art school in Kanazawa and graduated five years later. In 1977, because his father knew the then president of Nintendo, HiroshiYamauchi, he gets an interview at the company where he later was hired as an artist andis placed as an apprentice in the planning department. After spending three years as an apprentice under the tutelage of Gunpei Yokoi as an artist and designer, in 1980, Miyamoto had his chance to show their genius after theresounding failure of a Nintendo arcade game called "Radarscope" , desperately Nintendo needed a game  overwhelming and that's when Miyamoto is assigned to the task of creating a game that would take the company to success or failure. This is when born Donkey Kong that it was an instant success. Of the three characters created for this game (Donkey Kong, Jumpman and Pauline),Jumpman was the most successful.

Given the success of the youth's ideas Miyamoto in1984 is entrusted with a whole entire branch of the company and  is when Miyamoto started to think about a game in which there is a character that jumping with a clear sky blue background, for this game miyamoto rescued two characters, Mario (known as Jumpman) and Luigi, game then was called Super Mario Bros. Notably miyamoto other hits such as TheLegend of Zelda and luigi's mansion. In 2010, Miyamoto was nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities. Currently Miyamoto is thecreative chief of the largest multinational electronic game, Nintendo. And is considered, unanimously, the father of videogames