Is Mario A Plumber Anymore

September 5th, 2017 - four:49 PM

When information technology comes to video game characters, no one's more iconic than Nintendo's poster male child Mario. The plumber has saved Princess Peach and the Mushroom Kingdom countless times, but he'south done then much more than over the decades than only playing the hero. He's been a tournament fighter, kart racer, party animal, wild ape wrangler, doc, referee, tennis player, baseball player, soccer player, Olympic athlete, environmentalist, intergalactic explorer, and and then much more than. In fact, it seems Mario has performed every job there is… except actual plumbing (going downwardly Warp Pipes doesn't count).

Now, it seems someone at Nintendo finally noticed. According to a recent commodity from Kotaku, Mario's official Japanese-language profile has been updated to specify that he is no longer a plumber (going downward Warp Pipes doesn't count). Mario's new official profile describes him as this:

All around sporty, whether it's lawn tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, he does everything cool. As a matter of fact, he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago…

Surprisingly enough, Mario hasn't always been a plumber. Back when he was get-go introduced in 1981's Ass Kong, Mario–known as "Jumpman" back so–was "basically a carpenter," according to Shigeru Miyamoto. Makes sense, given the construction site setting of the arcade classic.

This does bring up the question, though: If Mario couldn't find whatsoever work equally a plumber, how'due south he been supporting himself over the years? Sure, he sometimes finds some money while saving the Mushroom Kingdom, but those are simply coins. Does he just keep jumping from job to job because none of them really pay enough? Is he really just pursuing Princess Peach because he wants some of that royal treasury for himself?

If Mario's not actually a plumber, then what do we really know about him?