Mario was first created by Shigero Miyamoto as the protagonist for the game Donkey Kong for the Arcade. He would follow this up with more arcade games such as Donkey Kong Jr. and Mario Bros. Miyamoto's next game was the world-famous Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom/NES, the game that made Nintendo a major company in a now major industry. This created many major themes of the Mario series that are now considered iconic of his series. For over twenty years afterward, Mario would star in many, many games for Nintendo systems. Mario and his accompanying franchise can be viewed as Nintendo's thematic tileset with which to create games of a whimsical, colorful, and light-hearted nature. He in fact is rarely depicted speaking coherent English sentences. In contemporary Mario games, his high-pitc