As a veteran company in the game industry, Nintendo has been in the industry for nearly 50 years, and its popularity can be described as well-known to everyone. Over the past 50 years, Nintendo has developed many household names and created well-known classic game characters, including Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, Kirby, and Pikachu.
These can be said to be the ancestor-level characters of Nintendo, they and Nintendo are mutual growth, mutual support, without these roles, there will be no current Nintendo Empire, without Nintendo, they will only be obscure small roles. Since these characters are precious sons to Nintendo, the names are very important, of course, can not be taken arbitrarily. This time, I want to share the origin and allusion of the Nintendo classic character name.
The order of introduction is based on the generations of the characters, and the first one is not Mario, who is the most familiar to everyone, but the furry-looking and iron-looking Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong officially translates as "Mori Yoshitsune", but I still used to call him Donkey Kong, who first appeared in the main machine "Donkey Kong" in 1981. Although the game is named after him, Donkey Kong is not the protagonist of the game, but a villain who is evil.
The protagonist is a carpenter named Jumpman, whose girlfriend is kidnapped by Donkey Kong, who will stand on the roof of the building and throw barrels, trying to hinder us, as long as we can cross the obstacles, jump over one barrel after another, climb to the top floor, and help Jumpman defeat Donkey Kong to save his girlfriend.
In the process, you can pick up the mallet to destroy the oncoming barrel, you can also eat small props, add points at the final settlement, the map of the later levels will become more intricate, and the obstacles will become strange, not just the barrel is so simple, but the goal of each level is the same, overcome the obstacles to climb to the top and rescue the girlfriend.
The game was actually adapted from Popeye Bupai, originally Nintendo wanted to cooperate with Popeye to produce a game of the same name, but this cooperation plan was later canceled. Thinking about it, it is better for us to create a few characters ourselves and continue to use them in future games. So it's not hard to see that Jumpman is Bu Pai, his girlfriend is Oliver, and Donkey Kong is Pluto.
Interestingly, when Shigeru Miyamoto designed this game, he did not help the protagonist to think of a name first, Jumpman people as his name suggests, the behavior in the game is just jumping between obstacles and floors, the heroine's name is also similar to whether it is similar, called Lady, but only Donkey Kong has a special meaning.
The name Donkey Kong is a transliteration, originally conceived from English, not In Japanese. Shigeru Miyamoto didn't think it was an evil creature and didn't want to disgust players, so he referred to the cartoon "Beauty and the Beast" and the movie "King Kong". Kong is a general term for a large ape in Japanese, and Shigeru Miyamoto hopes to see its name and think of a stupid orangutan, so he begins to look for words with relevant meanings, and finally he finds Donkey "donkey", this word does indeed have the meaning of stupid, donkey Kong is also named Donkey Kong.
Nintendo of the United States not only rejected the idea of Donkey Kong, but also ridiculed Shigeru Miyamoto, but Shigeru Miyamoto did not care about their opinions and resolutely named the character Donkey Kong. Moreover, there were copyright problems with the translated name of Donkey Kong, so Mori Ki-gang was used as the official Chinese translated name.
Later, Donkey Kong has successively launched many works, and the position of the character in the next year's "Donkey Kong Jr." is completely reversed, jumpman, who was still a hero in the previous year, became a bad guy, Donkey Kong became a weak princess and was imprisoned in a cage, and we have to play Donkey Kong Jr. to become a hero, to defeat Jumpman to save Donkey Kong. And Jr. The abbreviation of Junior, which means II.
I don't know if you see this, do you have a deeper understanding of the role of Donkey Kong?