As picked up by GamesRadar, the character's appearance in the Nintendo Korea box art has led to a flurry of speculation as ...

The trailer for Donkey Kong Bananza just ... be the same one who starred in the arcade games. Several times in the game, he visits his grandfather, Cranky Kong. Listen to Cranky Kong’s dialogue ...

Or he’ll simply just be the tutorial. Cranky is typically portrayed as the original Donkey Kong from the 1981 arcade classic, now older and wiser (but no less side-splittingly bitter).

Pauline is, of course, a character from the original Donkey Kong, and the woman that Mario is tasked with rescuing from DK’s clutches in the 1981 arcade original. Pauline later appeared in ...