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25 interesting facts about Donkey Kong
In the arcade game world and video game history in general, the gorilla is known around the world as one of the real originals.
I myself was too young to be able to play Donkey Kong, or "DK" as one knows, in video games but have had fun playing it on the Nintendo 64 and later on all consoles.
Here are 25 facts about the Donkey Kong series.
Donkey Kong was the first game to tell a story through cutscenes, something almost every game today does.
In 1994, Donkey Kong Country became the best-selling Nintendo game without a console.
If Donkey Kong was left alone for too long in Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, he would destroy a DS-like device and start playing games using the original Donkey Kong sound effects.
Donkey Kong's movements are based on the movement of a horse, not the Gorilla as the developers think the Gorilla moves are not bad.
EnGuarde the Swordfish, Squawks the Parrot and Rattly the Rattlesnake are three of the 11 animal characters that appear in Donkey Kong Country.
Donkey Kong debuted on July 9, 1981, making DK 39 years old.
Mario is actually the abusive owner of Donkey Kong and the antagonist of the series.
In 2008, Don Hodges found an Easter egg buried deep in Atari 400's Donkey Kong displaying programmer Landon M Dyer 's name on his credit screen after a series of actions completed.
Donkey Kong 64 has the world record for the most in-game collection of any game today with a total of 3821.
The princess of Mario in Donkey Kong is not the princess in Super Mario's Princess Peach.
Nintendo trademarked the phrase "on like Donkey Kong" in 2001 after appearing in the hit "Now I Gotta Wet’Cha" by Ice Cubes.
There are over 35 different versions of Donkey Kong including Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat as well as collaborations with other characters such as Mario vs.
Donkey Kong's TV show ‘Donkey Kong Country‘, based on SNES classics, aired in France and the US in 1997 and 1998, spanning 2 seasons with 40 episodes.
Donkey Kong debuted in the 2015 blockbuster ‘Pixels‘ where he plays Adam Sandler and the biggest enemy of the crew.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the game franchise, hated Donkey Kong Country so much that he openly stated that "Donkey Kong Country proves that players will use the mediocre play because art is good".
Donkey Kong had five developers on its day including Rare, Paon, Retro Studios, Namco, and of course Nintendo heroes.
Donkey Kong was originally introduced as a boxing game called Donkey Kong Country with a new 3D visual style, the Rare creators presented the idea to Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda and they agreed to create a
The name "Donkey Kong" comes from a combination of "King-Kong" - a Japanese phrase used across the country to refer to a gorilla and the creator of the first English word Miyamoto found.
In 1982, Universal sued Nintendo for using Donkey Kong because it was too similar to their movie King Kong.
Manky Kong, the villain, is the only "Kong" that doesn't belong to the Donkey Kong family.
Donkey Kong Racing, Diddy Kong Pilot and Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers are the names of three canceled Donkey Kong games.
Donkey Kong's 1981 arcade version for Nintendo holds the record for being the first platform game.
Since Nintendo 64 days ago, Donkey Kong has been a playable character in most Mario sports games.
The Donkey Kong brand worldwide has sold more than 40 million units.
In the first Donkey Kong game, the famous Mario was actually called Jumpman.
So we have it, the iconic gorilla that made headlines around the world by appearing in dozens of games and selling millions of units and still one of the heavyweights contenders.
Whatever Nintendo makes next, I can almost certainly say that Donkey Kong will show up somewhere.
Maybe in his own game or simply a playable character, and I for someone who can't wait the day you get to control the ape hating Mario.
