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Created by Shigeru Miyamoto, the series both popularized and crystallized the Platform Game. The centerpiece of Nintendo's gaming empire, the biggest and most successful video game franchise to date, to the extent where its title character was at one point more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse. I just feel that the Game Theory Mario timeline creates as many problems as it solves and that my own explanation is more airtight.For the first NES platformer in the series, see Super Mario Bros. As I said at the start, trying to make a more complex story out of a medium that often features a minimalist plot it a fun creative exercise, and I absolutely adored his videos on Rosalina. Of course, I don’t want to outright say that he was wrong. This Donkey Kong issue was my only main problem with the theory, otherwise it was quite interesting, although the evidence for largely reorganising the order of the games seemed quite minimal (for example, Birdo’s ‘birth’ in Super Mario RPG could easily be any Birdo) and I think it makes most sense to assume the Mario games happen in the order that they were released, except for obvious things, like Yoshi’s Island (and I really liked his ordering of the Yoshi’s Island games.) may have grown up had a child and abandoned him!
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Why needlessly complicate things with an unexplained disappearance? Admittedly, my explanation does leave Donkey Kong with an absentee father, but maybe he was never around I’d rather believe that than that Donkey Kong Jr. anymore and secondly this was clearly Rare’s intention when they made Donkey Kong Country. Firstly, it explains why we never see Donkey Kong Jr. I find it odd that people would try to argue that the current Donkey Kong is not Donkey Kong Jr. Also, since the Kongs where clothes and talk, they’re clearly different from real life apes and therefore we shouldn’t expect them to develop and age in the same ways. We know he raised him (mentioned in Donkey Kong Country Returns), we know he has been called his grandfather (in Donkey Kong Country) and we know he has been called his father (in Donkey Kong 64), so it all fits! Plus, that would mean he would be at least in his late fifties in the original Donkey Kong game an age where he could conceivably still be at his physical peak, but in the following ten years, time really caught up with him (perhaps a result of the physical trauma Mario put him through).
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Cranky Kong is Donkey Kong’s biological grandfather, but he raised Donkey Kong as a father. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that Cranky Kong has been described as both Doney Kong’s father and his grandfather. has aged terribly and become known as Cranky Kong. Ten years later, and they’re the heroes we know them as today, while Donkey Kong Sr. Mario, meanwhile, could be a teenager too, just an early developer, hence the big moustache. could well be a teenage ape all we know is that he is younger than Donkey Kong Sr. and Mario are the same age in his eponymous game Donkey Kong Jr. “But”, I hear you cry, “how can Donkey Kong age to become a withered old man, while Mario stays the same?” Well, that’s an easy one and in so explaining, I will also tell you why Donkey Kong Jr. So, it’s much easier to stick to one Mario, one Pauline and two Donkey Kongs. The Mario Vs Donkey Kong series features the modern Donkey Kong and the current Mario (not that I believe there are multiple Marios) and Pauline, who is identical to her appearances in the old arcade games for there to be two Marios, that’d mean that Pauline just didn’t age. is the father of the current Donkey Kong.įirst, Jumpman being the father of Mario presents one huge problem Pauline. MatPat claims that the original ‘Jumpman’ from Donkey Kong is actually Mario’s father, rather than Mario with a prototype name and that Donkey Kong Jr. Where his theory falls down is when we get to Donkey Kong. However, I do think that he made a few mistakes and complicated things when more simple explanations were available. That’s not to say I think the video was bad by any means, it was enjoyable to watch and well made.