For about as long as the Donkey Kong arcade game has been around, high-skill players have known about the kill screen on the first board of Level 22 that kills Jumpman (Mario) shortly after you ...

LEGO Super Mario is ... knew Donkey Kong had a special place in the heart of millions of people–whether they discovered him when trying to defeat him with Jumpman 40 years ago, or first learned ...

In Donkey Kong, the player controls a character known only as "Jumpman" at the time, who later became Mario, who would jump on every subsequent Nintendo platform and later drive go-karts.

Created by Shigeru Miyamoto while he was developing Donkey Kong (which, incidentally, was supposed to be a game based on Popeye), Mario was first ... version and "Jumpman" in the English instructions.