The game used then-innovative techniques to tell the on-screen story of how the stubborn pet gorilla of 'Jumpman' the carpenter steals away his girlfriend, Pauline, and it is up to the hero to save the damsel in distress. The game was named after the de facto villain, a gorilla (which was named after the classic 1933 movie monster King Kong), instead of the player-character Mario (or 'Jumpman', as he was named at the time), because designer Shigeru Miyamoto felt Donkey Kong had to be the strongest character in the love triangle displayed on-screen.

Then young game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was tasked to quickly develop a game that salvaged as much of Radar Scope as possible, such as the physical cabinets and the boards inside them. The game was created as a response to the financial failure of their 1980 arcade game Radar Scope that left them with thousands of unsold units. The character Donkey Kong was introduced to the fledgling video game industry at the same time as Mario, in the hugely successful 1981 coin-op arcade game named after him that defined Nintendo's future business as a video game company.

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Brawl and subsequent Smash games, while King K. games featured Donkey Kong as the series' only playable fighter, but then would include Diddy Kong in Super Smash Bros. series therefore saw fit to categorize Donkey Kong and these related properties with its own series symbol, rather than the iconic image of a Super Mushroom assigned to the 'main' Mario series - much like the other Mario sub-characters, Wario and Yoshi. In this case, it is a series that was initially established by developer Rareware, then a second-party developer for Nintendo, to feature Donkey Kong alongside an extended simian cast, crocodilian enemies, and a setting separate from the primary Super Mario games.

series' collection of characters, stages, and properties that originate from the subset of Nintendo's Mario franchise that is focused on the character Donkey Kong. The Donkey Kong universe ( ドンキーコング, Donkey Kong) refers to the Super Smash Bros.

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