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Dad hacks Donkey Kong so daughter can play as the girl

submitted by braschlosan

1 decade 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago

My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She's played as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn't in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else am I supposed to do? Now I'm up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline. I'm using the 2010 NES Donkey Kong ROM. I've redrawn Mario's frames and I swapped the palettes in the ROM. I replaced the M at the top with a P for Pauline. Thanks to Kevin Wilson for giving me the lead on the tools and advice.

11 Comments

coolhund says...

Man, I never noticed before how similar Donkey Kong is to Jumpman.

Funny watching Kong carry Mario like a sack of potatoes.

Hahah, a girl saving a guy? in a videogame? Funny joke!

Yeah, but he didn't even consider letting the ape be the protagonist.
Sure!... let's keep on reinforcing the same old stereotypes so that our children never have to deal with an inconvenient notion like 'equality'.

That's because Jumpman was inspired by Donkey Kong.

See the little guy being rescued in that video up there; the one everyone calls "Mario"? His name isn't Mario, it's Jumpman.

Pauline had her name changed, too. She used to be known as Lady.

Man, I never noticed before how similar Donkey Kong is to Jumpman.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'classic, girls, mario, donnkey, kong' to 'classic, girls, mario, donkey kong, jumpman, pauline, lady' - edited by xxovercastxx

Oh, and *femme

Adding video to channels (Femme) - requested by xxovercastxx.

dystopianfuturetoday

Pauline really got the shaft from Nintentdo. Did she ever appear in another game?

non_sequitur_per_se

Great way to teach your daughter that sometimes you can't always get what you want. Oh, wait...

Women as Rewards - Tropes regarding women in video games has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

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