Fans are trying to figure out if Donkey Kong Bananza is actually a prequel to the events in Super Mario Odyssey.

The trailer for Donkey ... arcade games. Several times in the game, he visits his grandfather, Cranky Kong. Listen to Cranky Kong’s dialogue long enough, and you’ll learn that he was the ...

A clip from the Mario Kart World Direct has a reference to the original Super Mario Kart, but viewers spotted Nintendo’s Donkey Kong Jr. erasure.

Pauline is, of course, a character from the original Donkey Kong, and the woman that Mario is tasked with rescuing from DK’s clutches in the 1981 arcade original. Pauline later appeared in ...

For those less familiar with the extended Mario/Donkey Kong universe, Pauline is a side character who first appeared as the iconic damsel in distress in the 1981 Donkey Kong arcade game.

Or he’ll simply just be the tutorial. Cranky is typically portrayed as the original Donkey Kong from the 1981 arcade classic, now older and wiser (but no less side-splittingly bitter).

as canonically he has always been treated as the original "Donkey Kong" from the series' initial arcade game. "Yes, everyone might have been expecting Mario, but Bananza's brawny obliteration is ...