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Donkey Kong is an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in 1981. The game introduced two of Nintendo's most important characters, Mario and Donkey Kong. The unusual name of the game is commonly believed to be due to a mistranslation of the Japanese for "monkey", but Shigeru Miyamoto actually intended for it to have this name. The "Kong" part is obvious (see King Kong), but the "Donkey" part represents "Stubborn".

In the game, the player's character "Jumpman" (later: "Mario") must rescue his (originally unnamed) girlfriend. She was not called Pauline until the TV cartoon, and later the NES version; in this context, she is referred to as simply "the lady".

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