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Donkey Kong Country portrays Cranky as the original Donkey Kong character featured in the 1981 arcade game. [18] The character retains his stubborn nature and has become an aged, sharp-minded, and disparaging video game veteran who throughout the games distributes advice and useful items. 64 portrays him as an alchemist.
While the 1980s games' Donkey Kong and the modern Donkey Kong share the same name, the manual for Donkey Kong Country and subsequent games portray the former as Cranky Kong, the latter's grandfather, with the exception of Donkey Kong 64 and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, in which Cranky is depicted as his father, alternatively portraying the ...
Donkey Kong is considered to be the earliest video game with a storyline that visually unfolds on screen. [11] Set on a construction site in New York City, [22] the eponymous Donkey Kong character is the game's de facto villain. The hero is a carpenter originally unnamed in the Japanese arcade release, later named Jumpman and then Mario. [23]
The Retro Studios games star Donkey Kong with other characters as his sidekicks. [157] [158] Players primarily control one Kong, with the second increasing their health. [156] In the Retro Studios games, other characters ride on Donkey Kong's back to provide special abilities; for instance, Diddy's jetpack allows him to temporarily hover. [156]
Donkey Kong Racing was developed by Rare as a console sequel to Diddy Kong Racing. [103] It was a racing game in which players rode on animals rather than vehicles. [104] Following the Microsoft acquisition, Rare attempted to rework Donkey Kong Racing as a Sabreman game for the Xbox and Xbox 360 before canceling it entirely. [104] [105]
Donkey Kong: 1981 2008 Atari 8-bit Platform: Nintendo: In August 2008 the 6502 assembly language source code of Donkey Kong was published at the AtariAge forum by Curt Vendel, [123] and was discussed there by the original developer, Landon Dyer. [124] Doom: 1993 2023, 2024 Macintosh, DOS First-person shooter: id Software
Pauline (Japanese: ポリーン, Hepburn: Porīn, pronounced) is a character from the Donkey Kong and Mario video game franchises by Nintendo.She was created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and debuted in Donkey Kong (1981) as the girlfriend of Mario who must rescue her after she is kidnapped and held captive by Donkey Kong at the top of a large construction site.
Robbie Lakeman is a competitive video game player who holds the world record for the arcade games Donkey Kong (1981), Stratovox (1980), and Super Pac-Man (1982). [1] He also formerly held the record score for the 1976 arcade game Death Race.