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Please read: If you are going to replace the current information on the Featured template, please see here before doing that and look at which order our next FAs will be put on this page. Mario Arnold Segale was an American real-estate developer of retail malls and office buildings and landlord based in Seattle, Washington. Born to Italian immigrants, he was the owner of the M.A. Segale construction company and was responsible for projects in the South King Country. Segale was known for being the namesake for Mario. According to a widely shared anecdote by Nintendo staff, the Nintendo of America staff, during a meeting in a warehouse, encountered an exasperated Segale who berated them for overdue rent, and they decided to name Jumpman (which the Mario character was initially called) due to his physical similarities and his reputation for being kind and charitable but also rambunctious when angered. The story was widely shared in the book Game Over, but Segale's last name was mispelled as "Segali", which was thought to be his spelling for years. The story was later confirmed by Nintendo through the 2015 video Mario Myths with Mr Miyamoto.