This artwork included a depiction of Bowser that is significantly different than later designs, the most obvious anomalies being his gray-blue skin and lack of horns. However, time was running short, so he drew the game's original box art himself. During the development of Super Mario Bros., Miyamoto considered asking a manga artist or illustrator to do the art for the game. The earliest known design for what would become Bowser depicted him as resembling an upright Koopa Troopa with spines on his back, and fangs. For the later North American release of the game, which also introduced the anglicized spelling Koopa, the character was named 'Bowser'. Miyamoto mistakenly thought kuppa was grilled meat, or bulgolgi (불고기), and that made it sound powerful and cool, but later learned that it was a rice soup. Miyamoto stated that they considered naming him either kuppa (국밥) (soup with rice), yukke (육회) (raw meat marinated with raw egg), or bibinba (비빔밥) (mixed rice), which are all Korean dishes as they are known in Japanese. In concept art, he tentatively had the name 「ボス クリーパー」 ( Bosu Kurīpā, Boss Creeper), based on Shellcreeper. Bowser as drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto for the box art of Super Mario Bros.īowser was created by Shigeru Miyamoto as the villain of Super Mario Bros.
