Nintendo Confirms Pauline's Age in Donkey Kong Bananza — Leaving Fans Wondering Whether It's a Super Mario Odyssey Prequel, and If Mario Will Appear As a Potential Villain Kid rock.

Donkey Kong Bananza features Pauline as a kid and the Donkey Kong arcade cabinet starred her as an adult. This throws everything we know about the arcade game into question.

Scarlet Plunkett plays some Donkey Kong while her boyfriend Kyle Adams plays Tetris at Cosmic Mayhem Black Light Mini Golf, where patrons can enjoy free play on several classic arcade games.

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Kyle Barr started at Gizmodo as a breaking news reporter in 2022. Since then, he's covered everything from AI, industry layoffs, and fun stuff like giant Donkey Kong arcade cabinets. He's worked ...

But Nintendo’s revelations about Pauline and its coyness about her age — she’s just 13 years old in this game — plays into the story of Donkey Kong Bananza offer a glimmer of hope that the Switch 2 ...

The creation of Donkey Kong Bananza started with destruction. “What we were really going for was this gameplay experience ...

The “problem” is that in past games, Cranky Kong has been implied to be the original Donkey Kong who kidnapped an adult Pauline during the events of 1981's Donkey Kong arcade game.

Alex Perry is a tech reporter at Mashable who primarily covers video games and consumer tech. Alex has spent most of the last ...

As someone whose favorite Nintendo mascot is Donkey Kong, Bananza seems to be shaping up to be the 3D Donkey Kong game that I’ve been waiting decades for. For Mario fans still waiting for ...

Nintendo held a Direct livestream about Donkey Kong Bananza that was filled with goodies. There are RPG mechanics and a major presence by the fan-favorite character Pauline.