Mario Segale, a U.S. real estate developer who became the namesake for the main character in the globally popular Japanese video game series Super Mario, has died, according to U.S. media. He was 84.(Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto speaks during an Apple Inc. event in 2016) [Getty/Kyodo]Segale, who was born in Seattle in 1934, ran construction and real estate firms in the suburbs of the city in Washington state. He rented a warehouse to the U.S. unit of Nintendo Co. around 1980 when the Kyoto-based game maker expanded its business in the United States.Nintendo first called the video ga…READ FULL ARTICLE
