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  • Donkey Kong is a video game franchise, and even its name was a small piece of design. Shigeru Miyamoto chose donkey to suggest stubbornness and kong to hint at a gorilla. The ape he built around that name began as a villain, and for years he stayed one. By 2021 the series had sold more than 65 million copies for Nintendo. It reached that mark even though the company shelved the character more than once. This documentary follows the gorilla across more than four decades. How did a single arcade game grow into a franchise with cartoons, theme parks and Lego sets? Why did Nintendo set the character aside twice? And who finally turned the villain into a hero?

  • The 1973 oil crisis raised the cost of manufacturing toys, and that nudged Nintendo toward arcade games. Taito's Space Invaders, released in 1978, showed where the money was. Until then Nintendo had built its business on toys and playing cards. In 1980 it released Radar Scope, a shoot 'em up in the Space Invaders mold. It flopped. The failure pushed the newly established Nintendo of America into a financial crisis.

    Minoru Arakawa, who founded the American arm, turned to his father-in-law, Nintendo CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi. He asked for a new game that could put the unsold Radar Scope cabinets to use. Most of Nintendo's top developers were busy elsewhere. The job landed on Shigeru Miyamoto, who had never designed a game before.

    Gunpei Yokoi supervised Miyamoto, who first sketched a love triangle starring Bluto, Popeye and Olive Oyl. Then a licensing deal between Nintendo and King Features fell through. Bluto became a gorilla, an animal Miyamoto described as "nothing too evil or repulsive". Popeye turned into Mario, the new hero, and Olive Oyl into Pauline, the damsel in distress. Miyamoto pointed to the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" and the 1933 film King Kong as influences.

    The finished game sends the player up a construction site as Mario to rescue Pauline, and it ranks among the earliest platform games. Earlier games in the style centered on climbing. Miyamoto put the weight on jumping over obstacles and across gaps. He pictured a playable comic strip that unfolded over several levels, each with its own scenario. Most arcade games of the day repeated a single scenario. Because he could not program, Miyamoto asked technicians whether his ideas were feasible. Four programmers from Ikegami Tsushinki then spent three months building the game.

    Miyamoto's team was told the game would fail. When it arrived in July 1981, it became Nintendo's first major international success instead. A windfall of $280 million rescued Nintendo of America and made the company a prominent name in the United States. In 1982 a Game & Watch version appeared, and Nintendo licensed the game to Coleco for home console ports. Across all platforms it grossed $4.4 billion, which places it among the highest-grossing games ever.

    Also in 1982, Universal City Studios sued, claiming that Donkey Kong violated its trademark of King Kong. Nintendo's lawyer, Howard Lincoln, found the flaw in that argument. Universal had won a 1976 lawsuit by declaring that King Kong was in the public domain. The case collapsed. Miyamoto's creation had survived its first legal fight, and a sequel would soon bring a second.

  • Donkey Kong Jr. arrived in 1982, assembled from mechanics and levels that had not fit into the first game. Miyamoto wanted the gorilla himself as the hero. The sprite was too big to move around easily, so he invented a new character, Donkey Kong Jr. The team still wanted the big ape at the top of the screen. They wrote a plot in which Mario cages him and his son must set him free. Nintendo reverse-engineered Ikegami's code to make it, so this was its first game built without outside help. After release, Ikegami sued for copyright infringement. In 1990 the Tokyo High Court sided with Ikegami, and the two companies reached a settlement.

    Sega won a license to make a game starring a playable Donkey Kong as a parking attendant. A management buyout from Gulf and Western Industries in 1984 killed the project. Donkey Kong entered a long hiatus while the spin-off Mario franchise thrived on the NES and made Mario Nintendo's mascot. The gorilla survived only in cameos in unrelated games.

    The first game's tenth anniversary approached in 1991, and Nintendo staff began discussing a revival. They could not start a new game then, so they made Donkey Kong Jr. a playable character in Super Mario Kart in 1992. The talks bore fruit in 1994 with a Game Boy title simply called Donkey Kong, the first original entry in ten years. It opens as a remake of the 1981 game, then adds more than 100 puzzle-platforming levels. These borrow ideas from Donkey Kong Jr. and Super Mario Bros. 2 from 1988.

    The 1987 Official Nintendo Player's Guide advertised a Donkey Kong revival called Return of Donkey Kong, which was never released for the NES. In the early 1990s Philips licensed five Nintendo characters, Donkey Kong among them, for the CD-i format. Riedel Software Productions worked on a CD-i game between 1992 and 1993 before it was canceled. A 2020 leak of Nintendo data included a Yoshi's Island prototype with a hero resembling Stanley and the title Super Donkey. That hints that Yoshi's Island began life as a Donkey Kong game.

  • Around 1992 the British developer Rare, founded by the brothers Tim and Chris Stamper, bought Silicon Graphics Challenge workstations running Alias rendering software. The purchase let the studio render 3D models, and it made Rare the most technologically advanced developer in the UK. Rare first tried the technology in a boxing game. Meanwhile Nintendo was locked in a console war with Sega, whose Genesis rivaled the Super Nintendo. Sega had Aladdin from 1993, with graphics by Disney animators, and Nintendo wanted an answer. Howard Lincoln, by then a Nintendo of America executive, heard about Rare's experiments during a trip to Europe.

    A demonstration impressed Nintendo, and Tim Stamper proposed a platform game built on pre-rendered 3D graphics. Nintendo let the Stampers use the Donkey Kong property. Accounts differ on who asked. Some sources say the Stampers requested it, while the designer Gregg Mayles recalled that Nintendo made the request. Either way, Nintendo saw little risk because the franchise was dormant. The resulting game, Donkey Kong Country, scrolled sideways in a style Mayles based on the Super Mario series. It was the first Donkey Kong game that Miyamoto neither directed nor produced, though he offered support and design ideas.

    Rare used a compression technique to turn 3D models into SNES sprites with little loss of detail. That made Donkey Kong Country one of the first games on a mainstream home console to use pre-rendered graphics. The series had little established universe, so Rare could freely expand it. After 18 months of development, the game came out in November 1994 and critics hailed its visuals as groundbreaking. It sold 9.3 million copies and became the third-bestselling SNES game. Miyamoto felt Rare had "breathed new life into" the franchise and had shown it could be trusted with it. Nintendo then bought a large minority stake in Rare.

    Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest followed in 1995, with Diddy rescuing a kidnapped Donkey Kong. Mayles gave it a pirate theme, reflecting his fascination with pirates. It was less linear and harder than the first, and it became the sixth-bestselling SNES game. Then the team split in two. One half made Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! in 1996, with 3D-esque gameplay and role-playing elements inspired by Zelda. It arrived late in the SNES lifespan and after the Nintendo 64 launched, yet it sold well.

    Rare also shrank the series for handhelds. Separate teams made Donkey Kong Land in 1995, Land 2 in 1996 and Land III in 1997 for the Game Boy. The programmer Paul Machacek persuaded Tim Stamper that building Land as an original game would use resources better than a port. Rare also built a tech demo for a Virtual Boy Donkey Kong game, but the system's commercial failure ended it.

    Diddy Kong Racing, a kart racer, was Nintendo's major product for the 1997 Christmas season on the Nintendo 64. Rare had planned it as a sequel to its NES game R.C. Pro-Am from 1988, then added Diddy to make it easier to sell. It earned favorable reviews and sold 4.5 million copies. Banjo the Bear and Conker the Squirrel appeared in it before starring in their own franchises.

    Work on Donkey Kong 64 began in 1997. Rare imagined a linear game like the Country series, but after 18 months switched to a more open design using the engine from its 1998 game Banjo-Kazooie. The move to 3D was hard because the technology was new. Rare could not match the detail of the Country pre-rendered images, since the Nintendo 64 drew graphics in real time. Donkey Kong 64 came out in November 1999 and was Nintendo's bestselling game of that Christmas season. Reviews were positive, though critics felt it lacked the revolutionary impact of Donkey Kong Country.

    At E3 2001, Nintendo and Rare announced three Donkey Kong projects: Donkey Kong Racing for the GameCube, and Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers and Diddy Kong Pilot for the Game Boy Advance. Costs were climbing, the Nintendo 64 had underperformed, and the GameCube was expected to disappoint. Rare started looking for a buyer. Nintendo did not see Rare as valuable in the long term and chose not to acquire it. In September 2002 Microsoft bought Rare for $375 million, making it a first-party developer for Xbox. Nintendo kept the Donkey Kong rights. Donkey Kong Racing was canceled, and Rare reworked the other two projects into It's Mr. Pants in 2004 and Banjo-Pilot in 2005.

  • In the years after Microsoft's deal, Nintendo treated Donkey Kong mainly as a spin-off star and a guest in franchises such as Mario Kart, Mario Party and Super Smash Bros. Donkey Konga, a rhythm game from Nintendo and Namco, arrived in 2003. It was built for the DK Bongos, a GameCube peripheral shaped like bongo drums. Reggie Fils-Aimé of Nintendo of America opposed its release, fearing damage to the brand. It sold well and earned positive reviews. Donkey Konga 2 followed in 2004, and a Japan-only Donkey Konga 3 in 2005.

    Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, released for the GameCube in 2004, was the first main Donkey Kong game since Donkey Kong 64. It returned to Country-style platforming and was played with the DK Bongos. Yoshiaki Koizumi directed it as the first project of Nintendo EAD Tokyo, aiming for an accessible game with simple controls. Reviews were positive, but sales disappointed. A Wii version with new controls came in 2008. Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, a racing game by Paon, was meant for the bongos on the GameCube. It moved to the Wii without bongo support and drew negative reviews in 2007, with controls taking the blame.

    Rare kept making Nintendo handheld games because Microsoft had no competing handheld. Between 2003 and 2007 it produced Game Boy Advance ports of the Country games and a Nintendo DS version of Diddy Kong Racing with extra material. Paon made DK: King of Swing in 2005 and DK: Jungle Climber in 2007, which mix Country elements with puzzle play inspired by Clu Clu Land from 1984. Mario vs. Donkey Kong, from Nintendo Software Technology in 2004, restored the gorilla's villain role. DS sequels followed in 2006-2009 and 2010.

    In 2008, Miyamoto said he was interested in reviving Donkey Kong Country. The producer Kensuke Tanabe suggested Retro Studios, the team behind the Metroid Prime series. Donkey Kong Country Returns reached the Wii in November 2010 and sold 4.21 million copies in under a month. Critics saw a return to form. It was rereleased for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013 and the Nintendo Switch in 2025.

    Codenamed Freedom, a Switch project came from Nintendo and the Activision Blizzard subsidiary Vicarious Visions, with Miyamoto consulting for six months. It was an open-world 3D platformer in which grinding on vines was a core mechanic. In 2016 it was canceled after Activision Blizzard redirected resources to Call of Duty. Details and concept art surfaced in 2024.

    Once Nintendo EPD finished Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, Koizumi told the team to make a 3D Donkey Kong game. One programmer had been experimenting with voxel technology and destructible environments. The team realized those ideas suited the gorilla's strength. Donkey Kong Bananza began on the Switch and moved to the Switch 2 around 2021. Its producer, Kenta Motokura, saw a chance to create separate 2D and 3D Donkey Kong series, as Nintendo had done with Super Mario. Reviewers greeted its release in July 2025 as a triumphant return and the Switch 2's killer app. Bananza also brought back the Kremlings after an absence of nearly 20 years.

  • The original Donkey Kong had a cast of three: the antagonistic gorilla, Mario in his overalls, and Pauline, Mario's girlfriend. The gorilla was Pauline's escaped pet ape, and Mario climbed a construction site to rescue her. In Donkey Kong Jr., Mario locks the ape in a cage, and the diaper-wearing Jr. sets out to free his father. The 1994 Game Boy game brought all four back. It also gave the gorilla a red necktie bearing his initials, DK, for the first time.

    Kevin Bayliss of Rare redesigned the gorilla for Donkey Kong Country. Alongside the red tie, he gained what GamesRadar+ called "menacing, sunken eyes" and a "beak-like muzzle". Bayliss made him blocky and muscular because that was easier to animate. Rare's hero is a separate character from the arcade original, who reappears as the elderly Cranky Kong. Cranky delivers scathing, fourth-wall-breaking jokes that compare modern games unfavorably with older ones such as the original Donkey Kong. Nintendo has been inconsistent about whether Cranky is the hero's father or grandfather.

    Rare moved the setting from a city to Donkey Kong Island, an idyllic isle. Its first new arrival was Diddy Kong, the hero's sidekick and nephew. Diddy's design, based on a spider monkey, began as a redesign of Donkey Kong Jr. At Nintendo's request it became a separate character, which is why Jr. has rarely appeared since. Rare added more Kongs: Funky Kong, a surfer; Candy Kong, the hero's girlfriend; Dixie Kong, Diddy's girlfriend; and Kiddy Kong, a large toddler. Chunky is Kiddy's brother, Tiny is Dixie's sister, and Lanky is a buffoonish orangutan.

    The series' main villain is King K. Rool, an anthropomorphic crocodile who leads the Kremlings, an army that wants to steal Donkey Kong's hoard of bananas. The name Kremlings plays on the Moscow Kremlin, and their theme music carries Soviet influences. Polygon called K. Rool an archetypal villain who "often wears disguises and invents strange gadgets for his elaborately evil schemes". In Donkey Kong Country 2 he dresses as a pirate captain. The Retro Studios games swap in new enemies: the Tiki Tak Tribe, floating masks that hypnotize animals into stealing the bananas, and the Snowmads, Viking invaders who summon a dragon. Bananza offers VoidCo., a mining company run by the apes Void Kong, Grumpy Kong and Poppy Kong, until a plot twist replaces them with K. Rool and the Kremlings.

    Mario's world and Donkey Kong's world are the same fictional universe, even though the franchises mostly stay apart. Donkey Kong and other Kongs are often playable in Mario Kart, Mario Party and Mario Tennis. In Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, Pauline is the mayor of the city from the original game. Bananza goes further with a 13-year-old Pauline who acts as Donkey Kong's sidekick and is implied to be the original Pauline's granddaughter.

    Play in the Country games revolves around side-scrolling levels linked by a world map. Each world ends in a boss fight. The series is known for high difficulty and an emphasis on momentum, so players must react quickly to oncoming hazards. Barrels return from the original games as weapons, as containers broken open to reveal power-ups and as cannons that launch the Kongs. Levels hide bananas, balloons, puzzle pieces and the letters K, O, N and G. Animal friends help too, including Rambi the rhino, Enguarde the swordfish and Squawks the parrot. In the Retro Studios games, the second Kong rides on Donkey Kong's back, and Diddy's jetpack lets him hover briefly.

    Donkey Kong Bananza, the newest entry, is built around destruction. Donkey Kong can smash almost every surface and rip chunks of terrain from the ground or walls.

  • Yukio Kaneoka, one of Nintendo's earliest audio engineers, composed the music for Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. He wanted a "pretty melody" that would carry players on an adventure, much like those in Disney films. The designers resisted, because they wanted comical music to match the games' tone. Hirokazu Tanaka, who later became known for his work on Metroid and Pokémon, also contributed. Miyamoto himself wrote the opening and closing music for Donkey Kong.

    David Wise, who worked at Rare from 1985 to 2009, composed most of the Donkey Kong Country music. He mixed natural environmental sounds with melodic and percussive accompaniment. His influences included the music of Koji Kondo, the Follin brothers' Plok! soundtrack from 1993, and 1980s synthesizer-heavy rock, dance music and film scores. He tried to imitate the sound of the Korg Wavestation synthesizer. Eveline Fischer composed part of the first Country game. Wise then left with part of the Diddy's Kong Quest team to work on Project Dream, and Fischer wrote most of Dixie Kong's Double Trouble. She drew on film composers such as Alan Silvestri and Klaus Doldinger. For the 2005 Game Boy Advance port, Wise wrote a replacement soundtrack after Rare struggled to convert her score.

    Graeme Norgate and Grant Kirkhope adapted Wise's soundtracks for the first two Donkey Kong Land games, and Fischer adapted her own score for Land III. Fischer was set to score Donkey Kong 64 but moved to sound effects, and Kirkhope replaced her. Nintendo Life judged his score closer to his Banjo-Kazooie work than to Wise's Country music. The game's introduction features the "DK Rap", a comic song introducing the Kongs. Its director, George Andreas, wrote it, Kirkhope scored and recorded it, and Andreas and Chris Sutherland performed it, with other Rare staff on the chorus.

    Wise was unavailable for Donkey Kong Country Returns, so Kenji Yamamoto took over. At the request of Miyamoto and Iwata, the score mostly rearranged tracks from the original Country, plus some new material. Yamamoto focused on what Tanabe felt made the music iconic, such as the piano arrangements and the bassline. Wise left Rare during that game's development, then worked with Yamamoto on Tropical Freeze. Newer technology finally let him reach a "1940s big band jazz" sound that the SNES could never produce.

  • Computer and Video Games called Donkey Kong "the most momentous" game of 1981, because it "introduced three important names" to the industry: Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto and Mario. The game also paved the way for the NES, which revived the crashed Western game industry and moved dominance of the home console market from the US to Japan. The NES leaned heavily on Donkey Kong's arcade hardware. Nintendo brought an arcade cabinet to the chip maker Ricoh for analysis, and that led Ricoh to produce the NES's Picture Processing Unit.

    Crazy Kong in 1981 and Hard Hat Mack in 1983 were among the clones that mixed running, jumping and vertical climbing. People first called such games "Donkey Kong-type" or "Kong-style" before the word platformer took hold. VG247 noted that Donkey Kong was not the first platform game, but "it was the first to matter". GamesRadar+ called it the first game to tell a story through graphics, giving arcades an unprecedented narrative depth.

    Donkey Kong Country's pre-rendered graphics showed a level of detail no console game had offered, and imitators followed. Vectorman in 1995, then Crash Bandicoot, Kirby Super Star and Sonic 3D Blast in 1996, all drew inspiration from it. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation credited it with proving that 2D games could stay relevant after 3D arrived. Donkey Kong 64 left a different mark. It has been blamed for the decline of 3D platformers because it leaned so hard on collecting items. Electronic Gaming Monthly wrote that Super Mario 64 had "breathed life into the 3D platforming genre" while Donkey Kong 64 had "sucked it all out". Jonas Kaerlev, who developed A Hat in Time, said it gave the genre a reputation for tedium.

    The Daily Telegraph called the original arcade game "the most fiercely contested video game of all time". The 2007 documentary The King of Kong, directed by Seth Gordon, followed Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell as they chased and defended the world record. The Telegraph described the competition as bitter and said the rivalries add to the game's lasting appeal. The Country games are also popular with speedrunners.

    The New York Times compared the soundtracks of Country and Diddy's Kong Quest to the Beatles' Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but for video games. Donald Glover sampled the track "Aquatic Ambience" in his 2012 song "Eat Your Vegetables", and David Wise approved. In 2020 the Scottish band Alestorm released a pirate metal album titled Curse of the Crystal Coconut, full of references to the franchise.

    Ice Cube used the line "it's on like Donkey Kong" in his 1992 song "Now I Gotta Wet'cha", though it is unclear whether he coined it. In November 2010 Nintendo filed a trademark request for the phrase as part of its marketing for Donkey Kong Country Returns.

    A Ruby-Spears cartoon aired in 1983 on CBS as part of the Saturday Supercade block. Game Informer later called it "abysmal... filled with bad puns and ridiculous situations". Soupy Sales voiced Donkey Kong. A very different series, Donkey Kong Country, ran for 40 episodes from 1997 to 2000. Medialab Technology made it with computer animation and motion capture, and the limits of that technology shaped its stories. The writer Simon Racioppa noted that characters could not pick up objects. GameSpot later called its aged animation "nightmare fuel".

    The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released in 2023, gave the Kongs a prominent role, with Seth Rogen voicing Donkey Kong. It earned over $1.3 billion, the highest total for any film based on a video game. In 2024 Universal Studios Japan opened a Donkey Kong Country area that expanded Super Nintendo World by 70%. Its Mine-Cart Madness coaster is based on the Tiki Tong boss fight from Returns. Lego released four Donkey Kong sets in August 2023.

    Sales tell their own story. DK: King of Swing is the franchise's worst seller, with 280,000 copies worldwide. Fans, meanwhile, build theories to fill the gaps in the lore. Kotaku called one theory, which says Donkey Kong Jr. died in an off-screen conflict, "a fascinating example of how fandoms can run away with the smallest bits of narrative available". In June 2025, Nintendo and Universal filed a copyright notice for a Donkey Kong film with the United States Copyright Office.

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Who created Donkey Kong?

Shigeru Miyamoto created Donkey Kong for Nintendo. The original arcade game was released in July 1981 and was Nintendo's first major international success.

Why was the original Donkey Kong game made?

Nintendo made Donkey Kong to put unsold Radar Scope arcade cabinets to use after Radar Scope failed in 1980. Nintendo of America's founder Minoru Arakawa asked Nintendo CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi for a new game, and the task went to first-time designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

What is Donkey Kong Country and why did it matter to the Donkey Kong franchise?

Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 Super Nintendo game by the British developer Rare. It used pre-rendered 3D graphics, sold 9.3 million copies, and reestablished Donkey Kong as a major Nintendo franchise while turning the character from villain to hero.

How many Donkey Kong games have been sold?

Donkey Kong had sold more than 65 million copies by 2021, making it one of Nintendo's bestselling franchises. The Super Nintendo version of Donkey Kong Country is the bestselling game in the series, excluding rereleases and arcade games.

What happened to Donkey Kong when Microsoft bought Rare?

Microsoft acquired Rare in September 2002 for $375 million, but Nintendo kept the rights to Donkey Kong. Rare's planned Donkey Kong Racing was canceled, and Nintendo then relied on other studios such as Retro Studios and Paon for the series.

What is the newest Donkey Kong game?

Donkey Kong Bananza, released in July 2025 for the Nintendo Switch 2, is the newest main Donkey Kong game. It is a 3D platformer with destructible environments and was the first 3D Donkey Kong game since Donkey Kong 64.

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  93. 93Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Switch sales show why these ports of Wii U games existTom Phillips — May 8, 2018
  94. 94Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars Review (3DS eShop)Alex Olney — March 5, 2015
  95. 95Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge Review (3DS eShop)Thomas Whitehead — June 8, 2016
  96. 96GBA title Mario vs Donkey Kong is being remade for SwitchChris Scullion — September 14, 2023
  97. 97Activision's Vicarious Visions worked on a cancelled 3D Donkey Kong gameVikki Blake — May 5, 2024
  98. 98Activision studio Vicarious Visions was working on a Donkey Kong game, it's claimedJordan Middler — May 5, 2024
  99. 99Alleged Concept Art From Cancelled Donkey Kong Project EmergesOllie Reynolds — October 23, 2024
  100. 100Our Big Bananas Interview With the Developers of Donkey Kong BananzaRebekah Valentine — July 10, 2025
  101. 101Ask the Developer Vol. 19: Donkey Kong Bananza — Part 1Nintendo — July 15, 2025
  102. 102Ask the Developer Vol. 19: Donkey Kong Bananza — Part 2Nintendo — July 15, 2025
  103. 103Donkey Kong Bananza is a brand new 3D platformer for Switch 2Lawrence Bonk — April 2, 2025
  104. 104I cried when this nefarious Rare character returned in Donkey Kong BananzaAdam Newell — July 17, 2025
  105. 105Donkey Kong Bananza ReviewsMetacritic
  106. 106Donkey Kong Bananza Is Switch 2's Killer App – Next-Gen Console WatchJuly 18, 2025
  107. 107The Switch 2's next killer app is already hereJay Peters — July 20, 2025
  108. 108Nintendo's Switch 2 Gets a Killer Ape AppJason Schreier — July 18, 2025
  109. 109Donkey Kong Jr. Review (3DS eShop / NES)Phillip J. Reed — September 16, 2012
  110. 110Donkey Kong Review (3DS eShop / GB)Marcel van Duyn — June 17, 2011
  111. 111Original Donkey Kong Country drafts reveal the characters that might have beenAustin Wood — January 19, 2021
  112. 112It's On Like... Him: How Donkey Kong's design has evolved over three decadesBob Mackey — February 26, 2014
  113. 113Nintendo trivia – 64 little known facts about the gaming giantHenry Gilbert — September 23, 2014
  114. 114Cranky Kong works out that new-fangled Twitter thingMike Irving — June 19, 2022
  115. 115The History of Donkey KongHenry Gilbert — February 21, 2014
  116. 116The Donkey Kong Timeline Is Truly Disturbingmerritt k — November 21, 2019
  117. 117Every Kong, RankedBen Bertoli — April 29, 2018
  118. 118The Man Behind the Legendary Donkey Kong Country SoundtracksDarryn King — November 19, 2024
  119. 119Why King K. Rool is dominating Smash fans' attention, and affectionDaniel Friedman — January 8, 2019
  120. 120Donkey Kong Country 2 creates an atmosphere like no other I Why I LoveTri Do Dinh — October 20, 2022
  121. 121Donkey Kong Country ReturnsEllie Gibson — November 19, 2010
  122. 122New Donkey Kong Country for WiiTom Bramwell — June 15, 2010
  123. 123【インタビュー】設定秘話や過去作ネタのことも！『ドンキーコング バナンザ』の任天堂東京開発に直撃August 20, 2025
  124. 124Bringing Donkey Kong To The Super Mario Bros. Movie Gave Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto A New PerspectiveAndrew Housman — April 7, 2023
  125. 125The Complete History of Mario Kart GamesChris Scullion — August 27, 2022
  126. 126NewsSuper Mario Party: Alle Charaktere freischaltenBenjamin Jakobs — October 10, 2021
  127. 127Super Mario Odyssey has the best nostalgic Easter eggAllegra Frank — October 31, 2017
  128. 128Donkey Kong Bananza Ending Explained – How Does it Connect to Mario Odyssey?Logan Plant — July 19, 2025
  129. 129Arcade Archives Donkey Kong (Switch) ReviewJustin Berube — June 16, 2018
  130. 130Arcade Archives Donkey Kong Jr. (Switch) ReviewJustin Berube — January 7, 2019
  131. 131Arcade Archives Donkey Kong Review (Switch eShop)Dave Frear — June 18, 2018
  132. 132Donkey Kong 3 ReviewLucas M. Thomas — July 28, 2008
  133. 133Donkey Kong ReviewLucas M. Thomas — June 27, 2011
  134. 134Mario vs. Donkey Kong ReviewJeff Gerstmann — May 17, 2006
  135. 135Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis ReviewCraig Harris — September 25, 2006
  136. 136Donkey Kong Country ReviewFrank Provo — May 17, 2006
  137. 137Turning Nintendo: The Donkey Kong Country Returns interviewBrandon Sheffield — May 30, 2011
  138. 138Donkey Kong Country Returns – White-knuckled ActionSatoru Iwata — Nintendo — December 1, 2010
  139. 139Best of the rest 2014: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze deserves more love than it gotDanielle Riendeau — December 24, 2014
  140. 140Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!Kurt Kalata — January 25, 2016
  141. 141Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze review — a Funky-fresh Switch updateJeremy Horwitz — May 1, 2018
  142. 142Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze ReviewAndy Goergen — February 17, 2014
  143. 143Super NES retro review: Donkey Kong CountryNadia Oxford — January 23, 2019
  144. 144I Wish I'd Found This Donkey Kong Country Secret As A KidKevin Wong — July 19, 2016
  145. 145Donkey Kong Country ReviewLucas M. Thomas — February 20, 2007
  146. 146Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze reviewTom Bramwell — February 17, 2014
  147. 147Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong QuestKurt Kalata — January 25, 2016
  148. 148Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Review (Wii U)Thomas Whitehead — February 17, 2014
  149. 149Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D preview – New screens and detailsLorenzo Veloria — April 18, 2013
  150. 150RVG Interviews: Paul MachacekMay 8, 2018
  151. 151Donkey Kong Jungle BeatMichael Cole — March 22, 2005
  152. 152As Donkey Kong 64 turns 20, the devs reflect on its design, the infamous DK Rap, and how a shocked Shigeru Miyamoto created the Coconut ShooterTom Power — December 6, 2019
  153. 153Magazine'Donkey Kong Bananza' Makes Nintendo's Great Ape Into a King AgainChristopher Cruz — July 1, 2025
  154. 154Preview: Digging Into Donkey Kong BananzaJenni Lada — April 3, 2025
  155. 155MagazineDonkey Kong Bananza: Tearing Down WallsBrian Shea — April 3, 2025
  156. 156Donkey Kong Bananza: First Hands-On PreviewLogan Plant — April 3, 2025
  157. 157Donkey Kong Bananza: DK's Very Own OdysseyJordan Rudek — April 3, 2025
  158. 158Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: First impressions of 'Mario Kart World' and 'Donkey Kong Bananza'Alex Perry — April 4, 2025
  159. 159DK: King of SwingCraig Harris — September 16, 2005
  160. 160DK Jungle Climber ReviewCraig Harris — August 31, 2007
  161. 161Donkey Kong Barrel BlastJonathan Metts — October 28, 2007
  162. 162Taiko No Tatsujin import reviewChrissy Williams — September 20, 2007
  163. 163Donkey Konga E3 2004 Hands OnRicardo Torres — May 11, 2004
  164. 164Donkey Konga PlaytestDecember 12, 2003
  165. 165Yukio Kaneoka – 1985 Developer Interview
  166. 166Metroid and Pokemon Composer is Releasing Demo TapesAndrew Kiya — February 16, 2021
  167. 167Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto On The Origins Of Nintendo's Famous CharactersNPR — June 19, 2015
  168. 168The Tepid Seat – Rare Music TeamDavid Wise — Rare — December 2004
  169. 169Interview with David WiseChris Greening — Square Enix Music Online — December 2010
  170. 170Synth, big band jazz and the remaking of Donkey Kong Country's amazing soundEmily Gera — March 5, 2014
  171. 171David Wise and Grant Kirkhope Remember Composing Goldeneye 007, Meeting Miyamoto, and Rare's Golden AgeNadia Oxford — May 21, 2020
  172. 172Donkey Kong 64 Video Game Music CompositionsGrant Kirkhope
  173. 173Donkey Kong 64 (Nintendo 64) ReviewAndrew Donaldson — June 17, 2009
  174. 174Grant Kirkhope Interview Part 2 – DK Rap featuredJames B — October 26, 2012
  175. 175Game music of the (holi)day: Diddy Kong RacingBrett Elston — December 21, 2010
  176. 176The Music of Super Mario GalaxyAlex Van Zelfden — May 1, 2008
  177. 177Mario vs. Donkey Kong's OG Composers Talk Making The Jump From GBA To SwitchJim Norman — February 19, 2024
  178. 178Smash Moves: Donkey KongJanuary 15, 2002
  179. 179Diddy Kong joins Smash Bros. Brawl rosterLudwig Kietzmann — August 22, 2007
  180. 180Super Smash Bros. (Wii U) Stage ListAnthony Labella — December 24, 2014
  181. 181Super Smash Bros Ultimate music list – every song in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, full soundtrackJake Green — April 17, 2019
  182. 182MagazineMario & Sonic Go Back to the OlympicsJason B. Jones — October 20, 2009
  183. 183Every Punch-Out!! Opponent, RankedKevin Wong — January 5, 2016
  184. 184Donkey Kong Adventure is a lot more Mario + Rabbids, for better and worseRyan Gilliam — June 27, 2018
  185. 185Nintendo stars Donkey Kong and Bowser to invade new 'Skylanders' gameMike Snider — June 16, 2015
  186. 186Saturday Supercade (1983)
  187. 187MagazineA Look Back At The '80s Donkey Kong CartoonBen Reeves — November 25, 2011
  188. 188Optimus Prime Talks About Being the First Voice of MarioDamien McFerran — June 23, 2010
  189. 189Feature: 10 Strangest Moments In Captain N: The Game MasterChris Scullion — September 21, 2019
  190. 190Captain N The Game Master – The Complete SeriesMichael Drucker — February 1, 2007
  191. 191Inside Nintendo's weird attempts at making movies and TV showsMatt Paprocki — June 5, 2020
  192. 192Donkey Kong Country (Cartoon)David DiRienzo — May 18, 2014
  193. 193NewsAn Emmy Awards Debate: What Makes 'Donkey Kong' Run?Charles Solomon — June 1, 1999
  194. 194Nightmare Fuel Donkey Kong Country TV Series Is Free To Watch On YouTube And AmazonDarryn Bonthuys — July 14, 2022
  195. 195MagazineMario's First Comic Book AppearanceBen Reeves — December 17, 2012
  196. 197Check out this forgotten Donkey Kong Country comic from the UKJohn Szczepaniak — September 30, 2021
  197. 198Donkey Kong LandNick Zverloff — April 17, 2013
  198. 199Here's where the Mario movie series may go nextTom Phillips — April 11, 2023
  199. 200Our Favorite 'Super Mario Bros. Movie' Easter Eggs: Game References, Cameos & MoreCaitlin Busch et al. — April 5, 2023
  200. 201The Super Mario Movie Features A Redesigned Donkey Kong, Shigeru Miyamoto SaysEric Frederiksen — November 29, 2022
  201. 202Shigeru Miyamoto Reveals Why Donkey Kong Got a Redesign For The Super Mario Bros. MovieRyan Leston — November 28, 2022
  202. 203Review Roundup For The Super Mario Bros. MovieEvan Campbell — April 4, 2023
  203. 204Super Mario Bros. Movie Fans Knock Seth Rogen For Barely TryingSisi Jiang — April 3, 2023
  204. 205'Super Mario Bros. Movie' Officially Smashes $1 Billion GloballyRebecca Rubin — April 30, 2023
  205. 206Is Donkey Kong In The Super Mario Galaxy Movie?Ollie Reynolds — April 1, 2026
  206. 207Another source points to potential Donkey Kong movie with Seth RogenAndy Robinson — November 3, 2021
  207. 208Nintendo Has Filed a Copyright Notice for an 'Untitled Donkey Kong Motion Picture'Tom Phillips — July 14, 2025
  208. 209Super Nintendo World's Donkey Kong expansion is officially opening in 2024Chris Scullion — September 28, 2021
  209. 210SUPER NINTENDO WORLD™ EXPANSION NEW “DONKEY KONG COUNTRY™” AREA OPENS TOMORROW! News
  210. 211USJ’s new Donkey Kong Country is a barrel of funJoel Tansey — December 12, 2024
  211. 212Super Nintendo World Adding Donkey Kong Land At Theme Park In JapanEddie Makuch — September 28, 2021
  212. 213First Details of Donkey Kong Country Theme Park at Super Nintendo World AnnouncedWesley Yin-Poole — December 5, 2023
  213. 214Super Nintendo World to Open at Universal Epic Universe in 2025 With Donkey Kong Country and a Mine-Cart RideAdam Bankhurst — May 2, 2024
  214. 215Massive Savings On Merch Today Only – Mario, Metroid, Animal Crossing, Studio Ghibli, And MoreJohn Bitner — November 3, 2023
  215. 216This Plush Donkey Kong Can Be Yours Down UnderJames Newton — October 16, 2010
  216. 217List of Donkey Kong amiibo – GuideAnthony Dickens — November 3, 2023
  217. 218Lost and found: Donkey Kong trading cards from 1982Frank Caron — February 7, 2007
  218. 21917 videogame soundtracks ahead of their timeBrett Elston — April 28, 2009
  219. 220Donkey Kong Country, Streets of Rage, New Adventure Island, The Legend of KageKombo — May 4, 2012
  220. 221MagazineDonkey Kong Lego Sets Join The Super Mario LineupWesley LeBlanc — April 28, 2023
  221. 222New Lego Donkey Kong sets are a nostalgia overload for longtime fansBenjamin Abbott — April 28, 2023
  222. 223We Got a Closer Look at the LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade Set at SDCC Comic Con 2026Myles Obenza — July 23, 2026
  223. 224The 10 Best-Selling Nintendo Franchises of All TimeGarrett Martin — January 9, 2023
  224. 225The Donkey Kong Series Has Surpassed 65 Million Sales WorldwideRyan Craddock — September 29, 2021
  225. 226Nintendo Beefs up its Player's Choice LineMay 17, 2006
  226. 227Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong Games join Nintendo Selects line later this monthStephany Nunnely-Jackson — March 1, 2016
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  228. 229Financial Results Explanatory Material – Fiscal Year Ended March 2025May 8, 2025
  229. 230Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze passes 4 million units soldSam Bishop — January 31, 2019
  230. 231Nintendo’s Top-Selling Switch 2 Games Of All TimeTom Phillips — August 6, 2026
  231. 232The Secret History of Donkey KongTravis Fahs — July 6, 2011
  232. 233The 50 most important games of all timeSam Loveridge — April 12, 2013
  233. 234MagazineHow Donkey Kong and Mario Changed the WorldJennifer Latson — June 2, 2015
  234. 235The Famicom LegacyJeremy Parish — August 21, 2017
  235. 236MagazineNikkei ElectronicsSeptember 12, 1994
  236. 237MagazineNikkei ElectronicsDecember 19, 1994
  237. 238Top 10 Donkey Kong ImitatorsLevi Buchanan — March 11, 2008
  238. 239Five Critical Moments in Platform Game HistoryJeremy Parish — July 26, 2014
  239. 240Gaming's most important evolutionsOctober 8, 2010
  240. 241Let's remember Donkey Kong Country, 25 years laterTim Rogers — November 27, 2019
  241. 242Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2Pedro Hernandez — August 17, 2011
  242. 243Donkey Kong Country turns 25: Gaming's biggest bluffJeremy Parish — November 21, 2019
  243. 244Game music of the day: VectormanBrett Elston — September 30, 2010
  244. 245Rising to greatness: The history of Naughty DogColin Moriarty — October 4, 2013
  245. 246Kirby Super Star developer interview – SNES Classic EditionAkinori Sao — Nintendo — October 10, 2017
  246. 247Donkey Kong Country-inspired platformer Mekazoo will have tag team-style local co-opChris Priestman — July 28, 2015
  247. 248Review: Kaze and the Wild MasksJeremy Peeples — March 26, 2021
  248. 249Good Game Stores – Feature: RebootsAustralian Broadcasting Corporation — February 26, 2013
  249. 250Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is basically Donkey Kong Country on PCJames Davenport — June 28, 2019
  250. 251Twenty years on, 'Donkey Kong Country' is still as terrible as it ever wasIan Dransfield — December 2, 2014
  251. 252A Hat in Time Developer Claims Donkey Kong 64 Was Instrumental In Killing off Collection PlatformersAndy Green — June 10, 2013
  252. 253A Hat in Time Hopes to Atone for the Platforming Sins of Donkey Kong 64Griffin McElroy — June 9, 2013
  253. 254MagazineDonkey Kong Country: Tropical FreezeBen Reeves — December 20, 2013
  254. 255It's Donkey Kong's 33rd birthday todayJeffrey Matulef — July 9, 2014
  255. 256The 12 greatest arcade machines of all timeJune 29, 2009
  256. 257Donkey Kong Jungle BeatMatt Casamassina — March 11, 2005
  257. 258MagazineDonkey Kong Turns 25August 15, 2006
  258. 259Donkey Kong Truck Hits Monster JamDecember 7, 2007
  259. 260Donkey Kong Nearly Missed Out On Pixels StardomDarren Calvert — July 23, 2015
  260. 261War for the Planet of the Apes: Trailer commentary by director Matt ReevesScott Collura — December 10, 2016
  261. 262Donkey Kong: the game that refuses to be beatenSam Rowe — September 10, 2014
  262. 263Donkey Kong's all-time record broken again, with a 'perfect' game (update)Owen S. Good — May 8, 2016
  263. 264MagazineThe King of Kong: ReviewPeter Travers — August 7, 2007
  264. 265Donkey Kong Country team reflects on the game's 25th anniversaryAndy Robinson — November 21, 2019
  265. 266VideoThe Most Emotional Video Game Music in the Unlikeliest of PlacesDale Driver — IGN — August 6, 2023
  266. 267Random: Childish Gambino sampled Donkey Kong Country and David Wise definitely approvesDom Reseigh-Lincoln — May 24, 2018
  267. 268Original Donkey Kong Country Composers Contribute to OverClocked ReMix's Serious Monkey BusinessAudun Sorlie — November 6, 2009
  268. 269Random: Pirate Metal Band Alestorm's Latest Album Features Several Donkey Kong ReferencesRyan Craddock — June 4, 2020
  269. 270First Part Of Fan-Made "A Tribute To Donkey Kong Country" Is Out NowChris Priestman — December 2, 2014
  270. 271Rumour: The Next Donkey Kong Is Being Developed By The Super Mario Odyssey TeamDamien McFerran — May 13, 2021
  271. 272DKC: Curse of the Crystal Coconut is an inspired animated tribute to Donkey Kong CountryJordan Devore — September 15, 2021
  272. 273Random: OG Donkey Kong Country TV Series Cast Reunites For Animated ShortOllie Reynolds — May 10, 2023
  273. 274Nintendo trying to trademark "It's on like Donkey Kong"Brett Elston — November 10, 2010
  274. 275MagazineNintendo Trademarks 'It's On Like Donkey Kong'Jason Schreier — November 10, 2010
  275. 276Nintendo seeks to trademark 'On like Donkey Kong'Doug Gross — CNN — November 10, 2010
  276. 277Nintendo Wants to Trademark 'It's On Like Donkey Kong'Sarah Jacobsson Purewal — November 11, 2010
  277. 278Nintendo says, "It's on like Donkey Kong"Stephanie Nunnely-Jackson — November 10, 2010
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