Early Concept Artwork of Donkey Kong Revealed

By Jorge Ba-oh 05.09.2015

Early Concept Artwork of Donkey Kong Revealed on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Last month, Rare staffer shared an intriguing look at Donkey Kong in his early days.

Before Nintendo's popular simian hit puberty and donned his famous red tie, he appeared in various different guises as the team at Rare penned different ideas. Meaty arms, slightly sinister smile and even a more chibi-fied version were potential looks for Donkey Kong as shared by Gregg Mayles on Twitter this week.

There's even a fax that Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto had sent through that suggested that DK should wear that very tie.

[blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"][p lang="en" dir="ltr"]Next to be [a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DKCrevealed?src=hash"]#DKCrevealed from the folder is this faxed pic from Mr Miyamoto suggesting DK could have a tie. Good call. pic.twitter.com/2IN21icvrN

— Gregg Mayles (@Ghoulyboy) [a href="https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/638761578582536192"]September 1, 2015

Finally, Mayles posted a piece of art that depicts what Kremlings could have looked like pre-King K. Rool.

[blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"][p lang="en" dir="ltr"][a href="https://twitter.com/BringBackKRool"]@BringBackKRool asks if #DKCrevealed has any early Kremling art. How about this pair, that pre-date K.Rool? pic.twitter.com/Vxys3eO8tX

— Gregg Mayles (@Ghoulyboy) [a href="https://twitter.com/Ghoulyboy/status/639175389525491712"]September 2, 2015

What do you think of Donkey Kong's earlier designs?

Box art for Donkey Kong Country
Developer

Rare

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

2D Platformer

Players

2

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  8/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (16 Votes)

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