Tag: Pauline
is the damsel-in-distress and heroine of the original Donkey Kong, as well in the 1994 Game Boy game of the same name and Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. She is best known as Mario’s first romantic interest prior to the introduction of Princess Peach. Along with Mario and Donkey Kong, she is also one of Nintendo’s earliest game characters.
In the original Donkey Kong, she is held captive by the Donkey Kong and it’s Mario’s objective to climb up the construction site and rescue her. Along the way, the player can collect feminine articles (a hat, a purse and a parasol) that Pauline has dropped for bonus points. In the same way that Mario was originally called Jumpman in Japan, Pauline was originally known as . The name Pauline was chosen for the character during the game’s distribution in North America after Polly James, the wife of Nintendo of America’s warehouse manager, Don James. Contrary to what some say, she is not named after the damsel-in-distress with the same…
