Video Game History - Origin of Donkey Kong

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This is a cute little story.

.The guy who made Donkey Kong was an Asian with limited English knowledge. When deciding upon the English translation for the game. He was told by someone that the English word for dumb was Donkey.

.And being familiar with King Kong, the word Kong is similar in his language for the word monkey.



.So he thought he had called the game,"Dumb Monkey" in his language.



. Today he laughs at what he had thought he called the game because his lack of understanding the English language.

This is pretty funny story. Its the little bits of history like this that I really like.