Mario's style: A product of 1980s technology

Nintendo's famous character Mario owes his iconic look to the technical limitations facing game developers in 1981. The relatively weak computing power of arcade games back then led designers to give him a hat rather than hair and a bushy mustache rather than facial expressions.

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This story published in SmartBrief on ExecTech on 11/24/2009

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