Turns Out That Story About The Aliens Pitch Is True
In the wild west of the Internet, it’s difficult to know what information to trust. Some anecdotes have waffled back and forth between “this is true” and “this is just a myth” — one that comes to mind is the story that Donkey Kong got his name from Shigeru Miyamoto looking into a Japanese thesaurus and seeing “donkey” listed as a synonym for “stubborn.” I’m pretty sure I read an interview where he confirmed this happened, but there is still a debate going around on whether it did.