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Anonymous e3d57d27aa0341e4c9d1903645536eee started this discussion 2 months (2008-10-14 03:24:41 UTC) ago:
He's not a donkey… he's a gorilla or some other sort of big monkey! Donkey Kong? WTF?!
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Anonymous 8950808c2f26a5688bc7eab882aa788b replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 03:32:53 UTC) ago, 8 minutes later (#69,551):
I heard it was orginally acalled Monkey Kong then when writing out some contracts for the game or something someone misheard the wored Monkey for Donkey and it was then called Donkey Kong
Dunno if that's really tru that's just what somebody told me.
Anonymous 405b09dd57fe481cb7b269bb43897ce4 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 03:38:47 UTC) ago, 6 minutes later (#69,554):
Miyamoto wanted to characterize DK as being a stubborn character. He obviously took Kong from King Kong, and then used donkey to represent stubborness, as they're often characterized as stubborn animals.
Anonymous 469fe2f1d8525e0e56a91d815455fb44 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 04:25:21 UTC) ago, 47 minutes later (#69,562):
Yeah it's the donkey thing.
Anonymous 1899dde7964e691cc6e6a06e07cbe4a1 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 06:01:21 UTC) ago, 2 hours later (#69,601):
@69,554Interesting. I didn't think that kind of stuff existed in the video game world.
Anonymous eadd39c5daf1d037ecb79e777d1d20a0 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 07:26:18 UTC) ago, 1 hour later (#69,647):
Anonymous 5971af2b593cb681808e59d2d8d9cc63 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 07:26:39 UTC) ago, 21 seconds later (#69,648):
@69,601You have a lot to learn.
The Monkey Kong thing is a false rumor.
Anonymous c997e690edd5811c98835d7fda4a4821 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-14 12:41:18 UTC) ago, 5 hours later (#69,791):
I read in an interview with him printed in a book that he looked up stupid in a Japanese-English dictionary and donkey was one of the entries.
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/donkeykong.aspIt is mentioned here, but only as a possibility. It seems a little too precise to just be a theory to me, but whatever. Other explanations mentioned in this thread appear there as well.
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