2-style, by the way.) Nintendo iterates over this concept again and again, producing some truly inspired puzzles along the way. The basic premise of most levels is quite simple: get the key to the door to advance. With 101 stages spanning nine worlds, Donkey Kong on Game Boy is so much more than a remake. That character too became pretty popular in his own right. And of course, that mustachioed carpenter-first colloquially referred to as “Jump Man”-would eventually shift his career to plumbing and receive his official name, Mario. As we all know, the original Donkey Kong would go on to become one of the most successful arcade games of all time. This cartoonish rampaging gorilla, destined to become an icon of the videogame world, was named Donkey Kong. And Bluto, the large and brutish foe, received the greatest makeover, becoming a literal ape. Helpless Olive Oyl became a new damsel, eventually named Pauline.
The everyman protagonist, Popeye, went from bulging-forearmed sailor to mustachioed carpenter. But when Nintendo couldn’t secure the rights to Popeye, the game concepts that Miyamoto had conceived were applied to new, original characters. Originally planned as a Popeye the Sailor Man licensed game, the player would take control of scrappy Popeye as he sought to rescue his girlfriend, Olive Oyl, from the burly Bluto. Miyamoto’s company, a Japanese toy and card game corporation called Nintendo, hoped this new game would help them break into the American arcade market. Reportedly this was first time a videogame had its storyline established prior to programming and development. In 1981, fledgling game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was working on his third project, a new arcade game with a simple, character-driven narrative.
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