Donkey Kong (ド ン キ ー コ ン グ Donkī Kongu)
It is an arcade game created by Nintendo in 1981. It is a primitive platform game that focuses on controlling the character on a series of platforms while avoiding obstacles. The story is not very complex, but it worked at that time. The game consists of Mario (in the game, Jumpman) must rescue a lady who had been captured by a huge monkey named Donkey Kong. These two characters became one of the most famous of Nintendo.
This game was the latest effort by the Japanese company to successfully penetrate the North American market. Hiroshi Yamauchi, the president of Nintendo, assigned the design of the game to Shigeru Miyamoto. Drawing on multiple inspirations, including Popeye and King Kong, Miyamoto created the sets and designed the game together with Nintendo's chief systems officer, Gunpei Yokoi. These two men created new graphics using characterization techniques, including scenes between levels to advance the story of the game, thus integrating it into the game.
Despite doubts that arose from Nintendo members in America, Donkey Kong was a huge hit in North America and Japan. Nintendo authorized Coleco to make the home versions on various platforms. Other companies limited themselves to making games with the same scheme to avoid paying Nintendo for their idea.
The characters created by Miyamoto appeared in multiple places, such as cereal boxes and cartoons. Universal City Studios sued Nintendo claiming that Donkey Kong infringed King Kong's copyright, but such a lawsuit was unsuccessful.
The success of this game put Nintendo in a prime position to dominate the video game market during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Donkey Kong
It is a fictional character designed by the Japanese Shigeru Miyamoto for the Nintendo company. He is a Kong gorilla that appears in the Mario and Donkey Kong Country video game franchises. His popularity has led him to appear in many video games (video games). Donkey Kong first appeared in the popular arcade game Donkey Kong in 1981, where he was the villain and rival of a then primal Mario, and they did so by the name of his grandfather Cranky Kong. Since then, he has starred in his own series of games as the new Donkey Kong, beginning with Donkey Kong Country in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and continues to be a major character in spinoff games from the Mario series. Donkey Kong debuted at the same time as Mario and still has a certain rivalry with him, appearing as a playable character in the Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. sagas and being the main antagonist of the Mario vs. Donkey Kong. Before it was the mascot of the Rare company, but in 2002 it was taken out by Nintendo because Microsoft bought Rare.
Jumpman
Originally, Mario was baptized with the name of Jumpman ("jumping man" in English) and appeared for the first time in the video game Donkey Kong of the year 1981, but in 1983 his name changed to what is now known as Mario, in homage to the name of the owner of the first offices of Nintendo of America, Mario Segale at that time, and his unique resemblance to the character.
Pauline
Pauline appeared as a Fay Wray (the protagonist of King Kong) with the torn dress and some stilettos. #donkeykong