It is a statement written down in order to achieve a state of being at a given point in time. Unfortunately, only 3% of Americans have written goals. Those that have them are typically the most successful people.
All the games before Mario Golf were developed by Nintendo R&D2. Mario Golf and all subsequent games in the Mario Golf series have been developed by Camelot Software Planning.
In Japan, he was called Mr. Video. Later, he was named Mario, after Mario Segale, who was a lot like Mario. Mario Segale was the owner of the land where Nintendo of America's office was built. Mario later appeared with his younger brother Luigi in an arcade game called Mario Bros.