Q 01/05

Who created Luigi?

A) Gunpei Yokoi

B) Satoru Iwata

C) Shigeru Miyamoto

D) Takashi Tezuka

Answer · why

C) Shigeru Miyamoto

He drew on the 1982 arcade game Joust when designing the two-player Mario Bros.

Q 02/05

In which year did Luigi first appear?

A) 1983

B) 1979

C) 1981

D) 1982

Answer · why

A) 1983

He was the character controlled by the second player in an arcade game.

Q 03/05

Luigi was originally created as what, in design terms?

A) A rival to Mario

B) A boss character

C) A non-player shopkeeper

D) A palette swap of Mario

Answer · why

D) A palette swap of Mario

Only later did he grow taller, jump higher and get a personality.

Q 04/05

Which 1982 arcade game inspired Miyamoto's two-player Mario Bros. and thus Luigi?

A) Defender

B) Joust

C) Robotron: 2084

D) Dig Dug

Answer · why

B) Joust

He swapped Mario's colours to make the second player's character.

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

Another theory credits a pizza parlour near Nintendo of America called Mario & Luigi's.