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Swanky gives Bear Coins and Banana Bunches as rewards for winning. In Donkey Kong Country 2, he wears a blue oversized jacket and has an afro hair style. In Donkey Kong Country 3, he wears a white long-sleeved shirt, a gold vest, a bowler hat, black pants, black and white shoes, and has a diamond-topped cane.
Pauline (Japanese: ポリーン, Hepburn: Porīn, pronounced) is a character from the Mario and Donkey Kong video game franchises by Nintendo.She was created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and debuted as Lady, [a] the damsel in distress of the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong.
Mario's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, wanted to use the characters Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl from the Popeye cartoon as the main characters, but failed to obtain the license, so he transformed them into Jumpman (Mario), Donkey Kong, and Pauline. [15] Donkey Kong established Pauline's role as the female character who is rescued by Mario and ...
A video game mascot is a mascot that is used by video game companies to promote both the company and their specific video game series and franchises. [1] Video game mascots are sometimes considered to be similar to those at sporting events, with larger-than-life animals, such as Pikachu or Crash Bandicoot. [1]
Plots typically centered on them encountering crime with the villains conning the slow-witted Donkey Kong into doing their work and Mario and Pauline exposing the truth. After Mario and Pauline reveal the truth to Donkey Kong, the three of them team up to stop the antagonists' plans followed by Donkey Kong evading Mario and Pauline again.
Donkey Kong is regarded as the first game to use graphics to tell a story, [261] which GamesRadar+ said provided an unprecedented level of narrative depth. [251] Donkey Kong Country 's pre-rendered graphics featured a level of detail unprecedented in console games at the time, [262] [263] and inspired many imitators. [28]
Mario (then known as Jumpman) was originally supposed to be Popeye, Donkey Kong was originally Bluto, and the character Pauline was originally Olive Oyl, but when Nintendo was unable to acquire the rights to use the actual franchise characters, it decided to create original characters instead.
Donkey Kong is the star of Donkey Kong, a video game series and media franchise owned by the Japanese video game company Nintendo. [1] He is also a recurring character in the Mario franchise, appearing as a playable character in most Mario Kart and Mario Party games, and is playable in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games. [2]