The story and work of Gary Bowser is pretty badass and would make for an interesting ama and event on lemmy. Here’s a recent article on Gary Bowser https://torrentfreak.com/gary-bowser-how-a-1980s-hacker-became-nintendos-nemesis-decades-later-230702/
No, they named him after the current president of Nintendo of America – Doug Bowser.
This entire situation can be summed up as Bowser suing Bowser Jr. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser