#3 – Miyamoto Had Nothing To Do With Super Mario Land!
This one right here does throw quite a few people off. And without a doubt once you have read it, you will be searching the Internet to see if it is actually true. But the flagship Super Mario game for the original Nintendo Game Boy had zero to do with the main man behind Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto.
Super Mario Land which was first released in Japan in 1989 was actually the brain child of a Mr Gunpei Yokio. If his name sounds familiar then that is because he is the godfather of the original Nintendo Game Boy. Super Mario Land had many of the characteristics that people loved about Super Mario, but it also had many little things that made sure it was its own game.