Three-year-old wants to play Donkey Kong as Pauline

Dad makes it happen

Tropes vs. Women in Videogames has finally hit the internet, and people have been more snarky about it than Juno MacGuff at a “learn to write like Joss Whedon” script-writing seminar. All that snark wont change the truth — games that employ the damsel in distress trope en mass send a message to some that “helpless prize” is the role that women are most appropriate for. 

One man’s daughter isn’t happy about it. She’s three years old, and “seemed pretty bummed out” that you couldn’t play as Pauline in Donkey Kong. Lucky for her, she’s got a dad with the skill and patience to make that happen. It looks pretty good too!

Nintendo, put this version of Donkey Kong out on the Wii U and 3DS and collect one million public relations skill points.

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Destructoid Contributor - Jonathan Holmes has been a media star since the Road Rules days, and spends his time covering oddities and indies for Destructoid, with over a decade of industry experience "Where do dreams end and reality begin? Videogames, I suppose."- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1 "The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1 "I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes

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