Mario first debuted in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. In Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong, the antagonistic monkey, kidnaps Mario's girlfriend. In 1981, Mario's girlfriend was Pauline and only in 1985 did it change to Princess Peach. In Donkey Kong, Mario had to rescue Pauline from the evil monkey. Mario was actually called Jumpman during the Donkey Kong arcade times. The inventor of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, while delivering arcade cabinets to the United States, found that the name of the Seattle warehouse landlord was Mario Segale. He liked the name Mario, so he decided to rename Jumpman to Mario, in the games that came after Donkey Kong.