#Depicting: Donkey Kong Jr. Math NES game box

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Animal Crossing - Part 3

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Pauline 1981-1984

As we all know, Pauline used to be really important in the Mario series and it really was a shame how she got replaced and forgotten, nevertheless, in the first few years of Mario, his lady was right at his side not only in the video games, but in the canceled games, the Supercade, cereal boxes, and etc... In the first 3 years of her life, Pauline had multiple variations, here in this post, I recreated all the sprites she had that were made/published by Nintendo (aka not the versions of her from different systems).

July 9th, 1981

The top row is her first appearance, DONKEY KONG for Arcade. The first 3 are extremely recognizable, the 4th is a "cut content" sprite (either from Arcade or NES/Famicom) that was used for what is proposed to be an alternate ending. In this one shes shown sitting (in the entirety, mario is sitting next to her). In the 5th pixel, I decided to take it upon myself to recolor the 4th pixel to match her other sprites.

June 3rd, 1982

The second row is Pauline from the Donkey Kong port on the Game&Watch. This is the first time where Pauline is depicted in red.

1983

The third row is a little more fun because not many people knows of the existence of this game. These 3 sprites of Pauline are from a game called DONKEY KONG Fun with Music. I'm gonna tell you why very few people know of this games existence... its because of 3 reasons, 1) it's an edutainment game that was meant to release alongside Donkey Kong Jr. Math, 2) it was canceled, and 3) it was only ever revealed in Japan in a magazine. There are only 4 pictures that prove its existence and yet it is very crucial for the development of Pauline. Not only does this game have a sprite that depicts her as a brunette, but this game introduced the idea of Pauline being a singer in video games (idk if comics made Pauline a singer first or if this game did, either way, Pauline has been shown as a singer for a long time now). **********Fun Fact!!!!! If this game had released, this would've been the first game to have Pauline playable, she was player 2 while mario was player 1.

July 15th, 1983

Row 4 is the port of DK Arcade on the NES/Famicom. The only noticable thing about this version in terms of design is that it gets ride of the blue, leaves the sprite in 2 pieces with empty space where the belt should be, and makes her more of a blonde.

February 2nd, 1984

Row 5 is Pauline's cameo in NES Pinball. Here we see Pauline as a brunette for a second time. This is also the first game where Pauline's sprite shows emotion.

June 21st, 1984

Row 6 is Pauline from the Famicom's Family Basics. The sprites in this game are much smaller. This is the first time where Pauline is wearing a red dress and the only time where she's shown with blue hair.

I made these sprites, I DO NOT need to be asked to use them. Please note that the "Fun with Music" sprites may not be 100% accurate, the photos that exist are really blurry and was extremely difficult to make them as accurate as possible. Pauline is my absolute favorite character in the Mario series, and she deserved better, but I'm glad now that Pauline is in the spotlight and getting the attention she deserves. And finally, I would've extended this list to 1987 if "DONKEY KONG Returns" was made and released. It would've included Pauline alongside all of the DK trilogy stars. Her, Mario, Stanley, DKJr, and DK himself (obviously) would've all been in it, we only know it exists thanks to 2 paragraphs of text, no images exist.

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Animal Crossing Part 1

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