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::Nope, it's this game here. The instruction flyers handed out to patrons of arcades called him Mario. Not to mention the ports (including the G&W game...) [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 16:49, 19 October 2018 (EDT) | ::Nope, it's this game here. The instruction flyers handed out to patrons of arcades called him Mario. Not to mention the ports (including the G&W game...) [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 16:49, 19 October 2018 (EDT) | ||
::[https://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/D/dk-tkg4u.pdf This] is where it's from. Please note the name is used a grand total of three times in it (always in reference to extra lives, having the grammatically nonsensical phrasing of "number of jumpman," while the rest is schematics, which would be of no interest or business to most of the patrons. The public first got background information in English {{media link|Donkeykongflier.jpg|here}}, where he is consistently called "little Mario." And of course, "jumpman" was never used in Japanese at all. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 20:29, 19 October 2018 (EDT) | ::[https://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals-videogames/D/dk-tkg4u.pdf This] is where it's from. Please note the name is used a grand total of three times in it (always in reference to extra lives, having the grammatically nonsensical phrasing of "number of jumpman," while the rest is schematics, which would be of no interest or business to most of the patrons. The public first got background information in English {{media link|Donkeykongflier.jpg|here}}, where he is consistently called "little Mario." And of course, "jumpman" was never used in Japanese at all. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 20:29, 19 October 2018 (EDT) | ||
::OK, Glowsquid showed me that it was additionally found on [https://imgur.com/GgGz1gn the marquee card] that came with some cabinets, so that's definitely something relevant. However, we still need to take out all claims on the wiki that he was renamed for later games. [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 13:34, 22 October 2018 (EDT) | |||