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This video speaks to an expert linguist about how to correctly pronounce Mario. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hqbco5BmT4

Is there anything that I can buy today, that does not require Internet connection, which I can play it on?

But Charles Martinet pronounces it two different ways (in interviews vs. in the actual game). Also, Chris Pratt, Lou Albano and Bob Hoskins don't all pronounce it identically when they're playing Mario... This video should give you an idea how Mario would say it if he was a real person...

Please watch this video. Listen closely at 1:07 and 2:02. Then please tell me: do you still not hear the difference? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DEqiQvh6oI

In the games Mario and Peach say it two different ways.

I have nothing right now (that works) which I can play it on. I will need to buy something new.

Of course I can. But first may I just ask: Why do you want to know this information?

Which - you think - is?

When I talk about him, I pronounce it "marry-oh." How do YOU pronounce it?

I don't have Switch. I generally only play older video games (I still have my original Gameboy, and it still works fine!)... I guess unless your original 1980s NES still works, then the only way to play the original Super Mario Bros. game these days is online, is that correct?

Hello. I'd like to play the very first Super Mario Bros game, again. Needless to say, I do not have a working original NES. So what is the easiest (and least expensive) way that I can play it today? Thanks.

It's surprising how many fans disagree about how Mario's name should be pronounced. So, what's the best way to know the correct pronunciation? Well, Mario is an Italian-American from Brooklyn, New York. This video goes to the part of Brooklyn which Mario likely would have grown up in - if he was...