The real Mario has died

[Goafer]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46072339

"Mario Segale, the man after whom video game hero Super Mario was named, has died aged 84.

Mr Segale was a successful Italian-American property developer from the US state of Washington.

In the 1980s, he leased a warehouse to Nintendo of America who decided to name the star of their new video game after him."

[bob]

I knew he was a landlord, but I always imagined him as the landlord of one of those old, New York style apartment buildings - perhaps living in the basement as a superintendent. I never thought he would be a property developer leading out warehouses.

I also assumed he was long dead.