You know Nintendo, and how one of its cornerstone characters is Donkey Kong, who’s starred in the DK rap in addition to some vido game? Well, it turns out that a bunch of names were proposed for him before the company settled on the iconic monkey moniker we all know him by. One of these was “Kong Dong”.
Stop laughing, this is a serious matter. A poor video game character could have ended up having to go by that for its entire virtual life. Millions of young people could have grown up talking openly about their love of dong, creating millions of hilariously awkward scenarios for their already depressed and overworked parents to try and diffuse out of a desperate fear their their spawn might be bullied for the heinous act of saying something that sounds interesting. Actually, I’ve come around on it. They should have called him Kong Dong.
Where did this dong revelation come from? Well, some old court documents from the 80s originally uncovered by gaming historian Norman Caruso back in 2020, which are now experiencing a resurgence in attention (thanks, Eurogamer), because, well, people like sniggering at the word dong.
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