Nintendo had a warehouse full of leftover boards from the flopped Radar Scope and handed a rookie designer the job of repurposing them: Shigeru Miyamoto invented the gorilla, the damsel, and Jumpman, a mustachioed carpenter who would soon be renamed Mario after the landlord of the American office. Universal sued over King Kong and lost. Out of that emergency recycling job was born the most influential video game company in the world.
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