Q 01/05

Who created Luigi?

A) Hideo Kojima

B) Masahiro Sakurai

C) Shigeru Miyamoto

D) Satoshi Tajiri

Answer · why

C) Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto: his team needed a character for a second player, and with memory tight they simply gave Mario's graphics a different set of colours.

Q 02/05

How does Nintendo officially describe Mario and Luigi's relationship?

A) Twins, with Luigi the younger

B) Cousins raised together

C) Twins, with Luigi the older

D) Brothers born years apart

Answer · why

A) Twins, with Luigi the younger

Twins, with Luigi the younger: he is nonetheless the taller of the two, a look the Western version of Super Mario Bros. 2 gave him after years as Mari...

Q 03/05

Which Mario-series heroine is usually portrayed as Luigi's love interest?

A) Peach

B) Rosalina

C) Pauline

D) Daisy

Answer · why

D) Daisy

Daisy: the tomboyish ruler of Sarasaland made her debut in Super Mario Land as a princess for Mario to rescue, yet it is his brother she is usually pa...

Q 04/05

Which 1982 arcade game inspired the two-player mode of Mario Bros., the game that introduced Luigi?

A) Defender

B) Joust

C) Robotron: 2084

D) Dig Dug

Answer · why

B) Joust

Joust: its second player rode a stork alongside the first, free to help or hinder, and Luigi was Nintendo's answer to that second rider.

Q 05/05

One theory says Luigi's name comes from the Japanese word 'ruiji', meaning what?

A) Green

B) Similar

C) Brother

D) Second

Answer · why

B) Similar

Similar: apt for a hero who began as a recoloured copy of his brother, though Nintendo has never confirmed the origin, and another story credits a piz...