The name Donkey Kong was ultimately the decision of Miyamoto too.
We gave him a moustache so that we didn't need to draw a mouth, as it's often difficult to show facial expressions with small characters.
As such Miyamoto thought it best to give the character distinct features, These technical restrictions would ultimately have an effect on the character design of Jumpman as he was forced to make the character small whilst still making him look human. Unfortunately due to the technical limitations in place not all of Miyamoto's ideas for the game were able to be included as concepts such as incorporating seesaws into the game or having the characters expressions more defined and animated were unable to be incremented into the game. After designing the concept Miyamoto approached his more colleague Gunpei Yokoi who would assist the young designer by supervising the technical development of the project. He came up with a little man with a mustache that was quickly named Jumpman, who had to save his girlfriend, Pauline, from the evil gorilla named Donkey Kong. Miyamoto had to retrofit his concept and develop three characters with similar relations to Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto. The licensing deal was not pursued by Nintendo, though the company would later secure the license and develop a popular Popeye arcade game. Upon going to work, Miyamoto's first attempt was to make a game based on the then-popular Popeye character. , which puts the player in the role of Donkey Kong's son, Donkey Kong Jr., who must attempt to rescue his father from the clutches of the evil Jumpman, who by then had already been renamed Mario.
Jumpman must navigate four different levels, climbing to the top to either force Donkey Kong to move on or, in the stunning final confrontation, bring the building's girders down to make the big monkey fall.ĭonkey Kong was followed-up by Donkey Kong Jr. Jumpman mistreats Donkey Kong, who snaps and kidnaps Pauline and, in a decidedly King Kong-like twist, takes her up a building under construction. The basic story of the game is that Donkey Kong is Jumpman's pet. To accomplish this task, Yamauchi chose a young employee named Shigeru Miyamoto. The company's president back in 1981, Hiroshi Yamauchi, made the decision to take a Nintendo arcade release called Radar Scope (a hit game in Japan that floundered in the States) and see if it could be easily retrofitted to play a different, and hopefully more successful, game. The arcade classic Donkey Kong rose out of Nintendo's desire to crack into the United States arcade market.
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