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\nNintendo court documents state that Donkey Kong once had a heap of other proposed names – including, unfortunately, “Kong Dong”. <\/p>\n

\nThe revelation is included in 1983 court documents from a lawsuit between Universal and Nintendo (ironically now best buddies in the theme park business with actual Donkey Kong lands you can visit<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

\nSaid documents were originally scanned and placed online by gaming historian Norman Caruso<\/a> in 2020, and were recently resurfaced again by Supper Mario Broth<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

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