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Nintendo's Origins

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Miyamoto's Donkey Kong Jr.

Miyamoto made Donkey Kong Jr. and then Mario brothers as an arcade game. That's what introduced Luigi and you had two plumbers. The setting was underground and the green pipes, that's how they became plumbers. They finally get the license got in the same van. Nintendo goes to John Kirby a few years later and says, we've got this great game and development and we're going to name the protagonist after you. And that is how Kirby got his name.

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