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[challenge entry] In a parallel universe...

From the Monkeys! challenge. See all 217 entries (closed)

(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 16:52, archived)
# Some people would have you believe that this was the original name for the game, but that something got lost in translation.
They'd be wrong in that assumption.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 16:57, archived)
# Haha
I remember a motor-racing game that, bewilderingly, got called Continental Circus due to a mis-translation...
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:05, archived)
# You've obviously never heard about the European trend for biker clowns then
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:06, archived)
# If I knew the name of a Euro motorcyclist who was performing poorly of late
I'd make a satirical comment there.
But I don't so I shan't.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:12, archived)
# His name originally WAS Monkey Kong
but was changed to Donkey Kong because the creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, imagined DK to be a stubborn creature, like a donkey.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:21, archived)
# Not according to his book, 'Monkey Wrong'.
He says it was always Donkey, (because they were stubborn), and that Kong was enough of a clue to his simian origins.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:30, archived)
# I'lll have to ask my friend - Ebenezer Kong if it is true about his simian background.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:46, archived)
# I see...
I do know that Pac-Man was originally Puck-Man, but it was changed after people scratched at the P on the machine to make an F.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:53, archived)
# Ha-ha!
I didn't know that.

(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:56, archived)
# Nice! :D
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:06, archived)
# Yay! :D
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:18, archived)
# There is also the legend of the Mitsubishi Starion,
...which was supposedly designed to go after the Ford Mustang market. When the US marketing team asked the Japanese marketing team what the car would be called, they tried to say Stallion...
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:44, archived)
# Lacist!
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:57, archived)
# not if it's
tlue.
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:15, archived)
# A donkey isn't a monkey!! Stop messing with my head!
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:03, archived)
# Ahahaha
*starts spinning hypno-disc*
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:06, archived)
# \o/
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:22, archived)
# I am hung like a monkey
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:14, archived)
# Upside down?
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:17, archived)
# On a cloud..
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:28, archived)
# yeah, like a pink cloud
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:31, archived)
# Exactly like a pink cloud.
I always remember an episode where he fought a demon child with a black pedal car cloud..
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:34, archived)
# from his feet
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:33, archived)
# That's me sorted out for the evening!
www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/donkey_kong/donkey_kong.htm

I used to play this with my sister, her boyfriend and all their biker mates, in the pub (when I was about 16). I remember it fondly, well most of it anyway....
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:33, archived)
# Wahey!
Do I need to insert a coin into the disk drive?
I vaguely remember something about the lady's dress slowly getting shorter if you spend more time on a level... I seriously hope I haven't just made that up
(, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:47, archived)