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Brandi P. Smith February 2, 2007 Comp 7970 Assignment 3 The Game of Donkey Kong The game of Donkey Kong was created in 1981 by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto who was working at Nintendo in Japan. The president of the company, Hiroshi Yamauchi assigned Miyamoto the project of making improvements to the game of Radar Scope because Nintendo needed a way to get in good with the North America market because they were not having success with the arcade game Radar Scope at the time. So, Miyamoto took on the project without having much to work with. He decided to design a new game from scratch. He used Popeye the sailor man because this character was his inspiration. Miyamoto wanted to create a game that involved Popeye attempting to rescue Olive Oil, his girlfriend, from Pluto (the British bully). Nintendo was not able to receive a license to make a game based upon Popeye. So they came up with the idea of making new characters to replace the characters of Popeye. Miyamoto changed the characters; he decided to make Olive Oil to a character named Pauline, Popeye to a character Jumpman and Bluto to an Ape, who name was Monkey Kong. The Jumpman’s name later was changed to Mario after Nintendo’s warehouse landlord, Mario Segali. The Ape’s name Monkey Kong later changed into Donkey Kong after someone mistakenly called him Donkey instead of Monkey. Miyamoto decided to keep the name Donkey Kong because he found out that the term Donkey meant stupid. Story Line The game consists of a damsel-in-distress scene. Donkey Kong has the role of a villain, where he kidnaps the Mario’s girlfriend, Pauline, and holds her hostage. The player has to take the role of the Mario and rescue his girlfriend. When the game begins Donkey Kong climbs to the very top area of the construction beams and begins roll barrels. The player has to attempt to rescue Pauline by moving up to the top by climbing ladders. But some ladders appear to be broken and also there are obstacles of fire and