![]() The whole "gorilla kidnaps girlfriend" plotline is a little convoluted, but what was remarkable at the time was that the video game had a story at all. The game was Donkey Kong, and Nintendo's success with this franchise is in part due to storytelling. ![]() You might know Jumpman better by his contemporary name and occupation, adopted when expanding to the US market: Super Mario the plumber. They gave him a shot, and he came back to them with "Jumpman", a carpenter who was trying to rescue his girlfriend Pauline from his pet gorilla, who was on top of a half-constructed skyscraper. Games were solely made by engineers back then, but they did have a junior designer who was keen to learn. ![]() In 1982 a games company had all of their engineers tied up working on other projects, but they owed their distributor another game. ![]()
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