Interessting facts

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A legend says that Miyamoto originally called his game Monkey Kong but, somehow, the M became a D during the developing of the game due to a typo.
The truth is that Miyamoto, like the most of Japanese people of the eighties, had a lame knowldege of the english language, but he wanted to call his game "Stubborn Gorilla" in an english manner. So he searched the english word for "stubborn" in the japanese-english dictionary and choosed the synonim "donkey" because he liked it, unaware of the fact that the first meaning of "donkey" is this:

And then he wrote "kong" because he was sure, like the most of japanese people, that the word "kong" was meaning "gorilla", like King Kong.