[quote name=\'Jimmy Fiono Coyne\' post=\'137206\' date=\'Nov 7 2006, 01:35 AM\']
While still technically incorrect, the show's offense with this question isn't that horrendous; they just included one brother too many in the question.
Mario did make his debut in Donkey Kong in 1981, but Luigi wasn't there. Luigi came along in 1983 in Mario Brothers.
--Jamie
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But then you have the beginning of "Donkey Kong Jr." in which Mario and someone else, who looks like Mario (but also dressed in red, not the usual Luigi green) were lifting Donkey Kong up in his cage.
Who was that other guy?
Some have said that was Luigi, but I, too, consider Luigi to have made his official appearance in "Mario Bros."
(And if you want to get REALLY technical, Mario's name in the original Donkey Kong was "Jumpman".)