Mario (マリオ, Mario ?), also known as Super Mario and originally Jumpman (ジャンプマン, Janpuman ?), is a video game character created by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. He is Nintendo's mascot, and he is one of most well known characters in video game history, appearing in hundreds of games, many of them bestsellers. Mario first appeared in Donkey Kong, and appeared alongside his brother Luigi for the first time in Mario Bros. As of September 2005, over 184 million games featuring Mario have been sold , making it by far the best selling franchise in the history of video games.