Donkey Kong is a exciting thrilling game that most people can recognise but don't know much about. Do you know what "donkey kong" means when it was created . I bet you don't even know what Mario's name is ,well read on to find out.
Donkey Kong was the first arcade game to include the jumping action and one of the most complex with four stages
Shigeru Myamoto was the designer of the game and actually wanted the game to be called monkey kong but there was an error.
The word Kong comes from the film King Kong and the donkey means stupid in a supposed Japanese/English dictionary
- Mario is actually called Jumpman and was the boyfriend of Pauline the victim in the game
The attacks donkey Kong can use are fireballs, cement pies, springs and fire foxes, power ups are hammers and you can also pick up Pauline's dropped possessions e.g. purses.
Very interesting facts! What other video game facts do you have for us?