#ReloadEdt Game Original #140
To discuss which game is the most classic game in the era of red and white machines, I believe that each player has their own answer. But if you ask which game is the most legendary work of the FC platform, then the answers to choose are a lot less, some people will choose Miyamoto's popular "Super Mario Bro.", and some people think that it is KONAMI, CAPCOM's classic masterpieces... In fact, FC actually has a work that can be called the foundation level, which is to witness the transformation of the glory of the arcade machine to the era of home consoles, and also laid the foundation for many famous works and well-known IPs in Nintendo's follow-up, which is the "Donkey Kong" series that we want to talk about today.
Donkey Kong, also co-produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, was released on arcade platforms in 1981 and became one of the most popular games of the year. At that time, various manufacturers were still fighting on the arcade platform, and compared with the dark horse-like existence of "Donkey Kong", most of the games were taking the old road of comic adaptation and IP adaptation. In fact, Shigeru Miyamoto originally wanted to arrange the three people in the anime "Popeye", Oliver, and Pluto into this game, but the copyright could not be negotiated in time, which eventually led to the protagonist of this "Donkey Kong" becoming some unknown new characters - a gorilla, a villain and his girlfriend, it is said that the villain did not even have an official name at that time, only replaced by a simple "Mr.Video", and he changed his name to "jumpman" after transplanting to the FC platform.
With the popularity of the cassette arcade system and the various magical operations of Atari in the home game console market, Nintendo has also begun to plan its own new generation of home game console ecological map. Remember that one of the requirements made by Nintendo president at the time for the FC project team was that it must be able to run the arcade game "Donkey Kong", which shows the status of this game in Nintendo's mind. In 1983, Nintendo's third-generation home console, the Red and White Machine, was officially released, and the first three games were Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong JR, and Popeye.
Back to the game itself, most domestic players contact it through a variety of 999-in-1 copycat yellow cards, and the attitude towards it is also like "Water Pipe Mary", "Big Bee", "Rocket Car", it feels like some low-cost small games to make up numbers. In fact, the FC version of "Donkey Kong" has a lot of game details, such as the cute sound effect of the antenna baby when the character walks, and the game also has a very strict drop judgment, jumping from a slightly higher place will lead to the failure of the game, which shows that the game design at that time was still very respectful of reality.
Donkey Kong, Jumpman, and Pauline, the three characters of Donkey Kong, went on very different paths. Donkey Kong is the name of Shigeru Miyamoto, originally wanted to be called "Stupid Kong", but Miyamoto Shigeru confused the meaning of "Donkey" and "Stupid", so that the English meaning of Donkey Kong directly became "Stupid Donkey Kong", but it was a bit crooked to the appetite of North American players.
Mori Xigang's Chinese translation name is jointly given by Shenyou Company and Nintendo, originally Ren wanted to develop Mori Xigang as an independent IP, for example, the follow-up "Super Donkey Kong" series of works sold on the SFC platform is also quite good. However, Mario hatched from the Donkey Kong series is so hot that many IPs, including Mori Yoshitsune, have to give way. Now Yoshitsune Mori often appears as an Easter egg character in various Mario series.
Pauline was originally Jumpman's girlfriend, but because Jumpman later changed his name to Mario and fell in love with Princess Becky, the relationship between the two became an old case and was gradually abandoned. However, Pauline herself continued to appear as Mario's best friend in the sequel to Donkey Kong, and her best performance was playing the mayor of the city state (also a singer) in Super Mario: Odyssey, although her relationship with Mario is in the past, they are still very good friends in the game.
As for Jumpman, after a career as a middle-aged uncle, plumber, smasher, golfer, tennis referee, etc., he finally became popular with the FC game Super Mario Bro. in 1985 and gradually became one of the most classic game characters in Nintendo's history. In the end, Mario's success is inseparable from the common achievements of all members of the Nintendo family, and the uncle's military merit badge does have a place for Mori Ki-gang and Pauline and others.
Just a few days ago, the unfortunate death of Japanese engineer Masayuki Uemura, who had participated in the development of light guns, red and white machines and super game consoles in the last century, triggered the remembrance of many game enthusiasts. In fact, in China, a game industry that started late and the game culture is very faulty, our players may not understand the extraordinary significance of games like "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong", "Little Bee" that are now very simple.
This is the 140th article of #Reloaded Game Original
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