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[challenge entry] In a parallel universe...

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(I helped save b3ta! The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 16:52, archived)
# Some people would have you believe that this was the original name for the game, but that something got lost in translation.
They'd be wrong in that assumption.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 16:57, archived)
# Haha
I remember a motor-racing game that, bewilderingly, got called Continental Circus due to a mis-translation...
(I helped save b3ta! The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:05, archived)
# You've obviously never heard about the European trend for biker clowns then
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:06, archived)
# If I knew the name of a Euro motorcyclist who was performing poorly of late
I'd make a satirical comment there.
But I don't so I shan't.
(I helped save b3ta! The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:12, archived)
# His name originally WAS Monkey Kong
but was changed to Donkey Kong because the creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, imagined DK to be a stubborn creature, like a donkey.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:21, archived)
# Not according to his book, 'Monkey Wrong'.
He says it was always Donkey, (because they were stubborn), and that Kong was enough of a clue to his simian origins.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:30, archived)
# I'lll have to ask my friend - Ebenezer Kong if it is true about his simian background.
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:46, archived)
# I see...
I do know that Pac-Man was originally Puck-Man, but it was changed after people scratched at the P on the machine to make an F.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:53, archived)
# Ha-ha!
I didn't know that.

(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:56, archived)
# Nice! :D
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:06, archived)
# Yay! :D
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:18, archived)
# There is also the legend of the Mitsubishi Starion,
...which was supposedly designed to go after the Ford Mustang market. When the US marketing team asked the Japanese marketing team what the car would be called, they tried to say Stallion...
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:44, archived)
# Lacist!
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:57, archived)
# not if it's
tlue.
(I helped save b3ta! blyerkit e k trilby, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:15, archived)
# A donkey isn't a monkey!! Stop messing with my head!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:03, archived)
# Ahahaha
*starts spinning hypno-disc*
(I helped save b3ta! The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:06, archived)
# \o/
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:22, archived)
# I am hung like a monkey
(I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:14, archived)
# Upside down?
(I helped save b3ta! the ghost of last tuesday, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:17, archived)
# On a cloud..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_kEvDokCgA
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:28, archived)
# yeah, like a pink cloud
(I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:31, archived)
# Exactly like a pink cloud.
I always remember an episode where he fought a demon child with a black pedal car cloud..
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:34, archived)
# from his feet
(I helped save b3ta! Van Da Graph is sufferng wth an intermttent 'i' key, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:33, archived)
# That's me sorted out for the evening!
www.fetchfido.co.uk/games/donkey_kong/donkey_kong.htm

I used to play this with my sister, her boyfriend and all their biker mates, in the pub (when I was about 16). I remember it fondly, well most of it anyway....
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:33, archived)
# Wahey!
Do I need to insert a coin into the disk drive?
I vaguely remember something about the lady's dress slowly getting shorter if you spend more time on a level... I seriously hope I haven't just made that up
(I helped save b3ta! The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 17:47, archived)