History Franchise / DonkeyKong

* ''Ride/SuperNintendoWorld'': The Florida version of the land is set to include a Donkey Kong area.

* The ''Donkey Kong Jungle Action Special'': An one-off annual by Creator/{{Fleetway}}, featuring articles and comics based on the first ''Donkey Kong Country'' and the 1994 GameBoy game.

''Donkey Kong'' is a franchise of video games centered around the eponymous necktie-wearing gorilla Donkey Kong. While it is often viewed as a subset of the greater ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' franchise, it is, by technicality, ''Mario''[='=]s parent franchise.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The heroic Kongs are all primates of various kinds.

** ''[[VideoGame/DKKingOfSwing]]''

** ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongKingOfSwing D.K. King of Swing]]''

** ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongKingOfSwing]]''

** ''[[VideoGame/DKKingOfSwing]]''

** ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongKingOfSwing DK: King of Swing]]''

** ''[[VideoGame/DKKingOfSwing DK: King of Swing]]''

** ''DK: King of Swing''

* BlindIdiotTranslation: How "Donkey Kong" got his name. Miyamoto was looking for a word in English that meant "stubborn" or "foolish" to match the character's personality, hence "Donkey." And he assumed from ''Film/KingKong'' that "Kong" was the English word for "big ape." Hence "Donkey Kong"— "big stubborn ape."

** ''Donkey Kong Land 3''

''Donkey Kong'' is a franchise of video games centered around the eponymous necktie-wearing gorilla Donkey Kong. While it is often viewed a subset of the greater ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' franchise, it is, by technicality, ''Mario''[='=]s parent franchise.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94''[[note]]Note that the game's official name is Donkey Kong; the Fan Nickname (which was actually the Working Title) is often used to distinguish it from the original arcade game and said arcade game's various ports, which is why it is used that way here as well.[[/note]]

''Donkey Kong'' is a franchise of video games centered around the eponymous necktie-wearing gorilla Donkey Kong. As a result, it is a sub-franchise of the ''Mario'' franchise.

''Donkey Kong'' is a franchise of video games centered around the eponymous necktie-wearing gorilla Donkey Kong.

* KingKongCopy: The surname ''Kong'' is a deliberate homage to [[Franchise/KingKong the Great Ape himself]].

Donkey Kong was completely reinvented by the British studio Creator/{{Rare}} with the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' games on the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem. The trilogy breathed a new life for the Donkey Kong character, giving him a supporting cast of other Kongs such as Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong as well as giving him an established group of enemies to fight called the Kremlings, an army of anthropomorphic crocodilians lead by a constantly name-changing king called King K. Rool. It was also established that the Donkey Kong of the arcade games was now old and retired, going by the name of Cranky Kong, while the playable Donkey Kong was either his son (and therefore the old Donkey Kong Jr.) or his grandson. These games were massively popular for their highly detailed digitized graphics that took full advantage of the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}' color rendering capabilities. It also paved the way for Creator/{{Rare}} to become one of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s most acclaimed development studios. Rare also produced ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64, often thought to be a SelfPlagiarism of their own ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''.

Throughout its life, the ''Donkey Kong'' franchise has maintained a connection to its greater franchise, ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]''. DK himself appeared in several ''Mario'' spinoffs like the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series, ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' series, and the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series. For a while, Creator/{{Nintendo}} was reluctant to incorporate the elements from the Creator/{{Rare}} games with the extended ''Mario'' universe, due to ambiguous IP rights between Nintendo and Rare. The DKC elements were finally integrated into the extended ''Mario'' universe with ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'', which featured Diddy Kong as a playable character. Since then, other DKC characters have made appearances in the ''Mario'' spinoffs, among them Funky Kong and the Kremlings. Donkey Kong is also a perennial playable character of the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series of {{Fighting Game}}s, which, unlike the ''Mario'' spinoffs, has incorporated DKC elements from the very beginning. Diddy Kong later joined in ''Brawl''.