Although he's Italian (and created by the Japanese), Mario is a common Hispanic name, but I never really cared about that back then. It was something that he w

Although he's Italian (and created by the Japanese), Mario is a common Hispanic name, but I never really cared about that back then. It was something that he was a 'human', since Pac-man, Q*bert, Donkey Kong, and Frogger weren't.