Thanks to her talented dad, one 3-year-old gamer can now conquer “Donkey Kong” in a skirt.
YouTube user Mike Mika explains that his toddler daughter plays old video games with him — but she was disappointed when she couldn’t use the character of Pauline to rescue Mario in “Donkey Kong” (rather than the other way around).
“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,” Mika writes on YouTube. “So what else am I supposed to do? Now I’m up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline.”
In a strikingly similar instance last year, dad Mike Hoye changed the text of “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker” so that his 3-year-old daughter could play a female protagonist. Hoye’s explanation for his efforts — “I’m not having my daughter growing up thinking girls don’t get to be the hero” — seems fitting here, too.
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