- Donkey Kong (Arcade) (archive.org)
Released in the arcades in 1981, Donkey Kong was not only Nintendo’s first real smash hit for the company but marked the introduction of two of their most popular mascots: Mario (originally “Jumpman”) and Donkey Kong.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Wikipedia)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and it was inspired by multiple short stories by Clarke, including “The Sentinel” (1951). Clarke also published a novelisation of the film, in part written concurrently with the screenplay, after the film’s release. 2001: A Space Odyssey stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL 9000 to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith.
- Donkey Kong (1981 video game) (Wikipedia)
Donkey Kong is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Mario (also sometimes known at the time as “Jumpman”), the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series and Mario’s first appearance in a video game.