Author Topic: luigi who? (Read 5595 times)

Master Mario · « **Reply #15 on:** January 26, 2005, 01:21:27 AM »

I agree! ^_^ WITH NUNYA!!!!! \_/ They got Mario from Segali, but what's next door to the Nintendo company is the story! Luigi's name was from a Pizza Place called Luigi Mario's!

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Edited by - Master Mario on 1/25/2005 11:24:32 PM

Hope(N Forever) · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2005, 09:41:29 AM »

Luigi is a very common name in Italy, isn't it?

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...and in no point in the future will he ever be abandonded by me!
I will even drawn the best Super Mario comics ever to exist!!

The_Great_Gonzalas · « **Reply #17 on:** January 26, 2005, 11:49:33 AM »

I think so, it tends to be the stereotypical Italian name, when you think of Italian names, Luigi tend to be one of the first to jump to mind (exculding any Mario relation).

n-fani · « **Reply #18 on:** January 26, 2005, 02:02:08 PM »

Actually, there's a pizza place near here and the owner's name is Luigi. How come I've never thought about that.

smfan1085 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 26, 2005, 08:46:38 PM »

I thought I read somewhere that in Japan the pronunciation of Luigi is "Ruiji", which is the Japanese word for "similar". That, added to the things mentioned before, may have had to do with the naming of Luigi. (After all, he was first just a recoloring of Mario, so he was certainly similar to him.)

Hope(N Forever) · « **Reply #20 on:** January 27, 2005, 03:33:53 AM »

I bet Nintendo were very lazy during the production of Mario Bros. way back when...

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...and in no point in the future will he ever be abandonded by me!

I will even drawn the best Super Mario comics ever to exist!!

Mr. Wiggles · « **Reply #21 on:** January 27, 2005, 05:52:10 PM »

I think it had more to do with hardware limitations in the 80's than lazyness.

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Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #22 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:57:28 PM »

Um, yeah. They needed another generic Italian name that was five letters long.

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Ultima Shadow · « **Reply #23 on:** February 09, 2005, 01:06:23 AM »

I agree, Chupperson Weird. But Waluigi-- what on Earth were they thinking???

Actually, I saw a Mario War game on floppy disks, and it had a screen shot. It used the Mario Bros Battle (In the SMA games) Mario graphics, and Wario was named Fabio. Actually, that would have been better than Wario!

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Watoad · « **Reply #24 on:** February 09, 2005, 01:42:53 AM »

No wonder my nickname is Foad. ;P

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smfan1085 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2005, 10:21:13 PM »

Warui (Japanese for "bad") + Ruigi (Japanese for Luigi) = Waruigi (Waluigi).

Seriously now, it's not that hard to write out "Japanese," is it?
Also, it is said to come from Ijiwaru, meaning something along the lines of bad-tempered, I believe.

~CW

Edited by - Chupperson Weird on 2/10/2005 9:48:51 PM