why was he named that then?


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( Jeccius is also me Xbox 360 Gamertag, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:27, archived)

Alledgedly
There was a mistranlastion in a fax from Japan to America
It should have been "Monkey Kong" but came out "Donkey Kong"
And by the time they'd realised, they'd already printed all the stuff. Or something. So kept it.
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:28, archived)

that's like that Bond Film "Tomorrow Never Dies"
was a typo, meant to be "Tomorrow Never Lies", same reasons etc.
( Jeccius is also me Xbox 360 Gamertag, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:30, archived)

Well that must've happened before they recorded the theme tune, too.
Would've thought they could change it before that point.
(Dooley, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:35, archived)

still a shit film though :)

( Jeccius is also me Xbox 360 Gamertag, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:36, archived)

Funny old thing language
Mitsubishi named their cars after horses (like the Palomino) till they made the Starion. It was supposedly at the launch party for the car when they did the big reveal of the car and its name, when someone said "there is no R in Starion"
(Wize, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:41, archived)

is it called a stallion then?
/confused
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:54, archived)

hahaha!
engrish
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:57, archived)

He was named Donkey Kong
because Shigeru Miyamoto was looking for a Western word for "stupid" - Kong referring to the monkey factor. Another theory is that "Donkey" was simply a mishearing of "Monkey" over a bad phone connection.
/Massive fucking Nintendo geek.
Woo pic!
(Dooley, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:29, archived)

I have a Miyamoto Signed Gamecube
and Pikmin game.
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:31, archived)

I'll give you £5 for them both.
Jammy fucker.
(Dooley, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:32, archived)

you've met the Miyamoto?
Get the fuck outta here :)
( Jeccius is also me Xbox 360 Gamertag, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:33, archived)

i've got a battered wang
but you don't here me bragging about it do you! eh!!
( w33b le wobbles but he dosen't shut the fuck up, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:35, archived)

In oxford street many years ago.
I don't know if the photos are on my website.
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Thu 17 Aug 2006, 11:47, archived)