June 1982, Donkey Kongs success had prompted more than 50 parties in the U.S. and Japan to license the game's characters. Mario and his simian nemesis appeared on cereal boxes, board games, pajamas, and manga. In 1983, the animation studio Ruby-Spears produced a Donkey Kong cartoon (as well as Donkey Kong Jr.) for the Saturday Supercade program on CBS. In the show, mystery crime-solving plots in the mode of Scooby-Doo are framed around the premise of Mario and Pauline chasing Donkey Kong (voiced by Soupy Sales), who has escaped from the circus. The show lasted two seasons. In 1982, the songs "Do the Donkey Kong" by Buckner & Garcia and "Donkey Kong" by R. Cade and the Video Victims were released. Artists like DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince and Trace Adkins referenced the game in songs. Episodes of The Simpsons, Futurama, Crank Yankers, and The Fairly OddParents have referenced the game. Sound effects from the Atari 2600 version serve as generic video game sounds in films and television series. The phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong" was coined by American rapper Ice Cube in 1992, and has been used in various works of popular culture. In November 2010, Nintendo applied for a trademark on the phrase with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Notes References Bibliography Consalvo, Mia (2003). "Hot Dates and Fairy-tale Romances". The Video Game Theory Reader. New York: Routledge. Fox, Matt (2006). The Video Games Guide. Boxtree Ltd. Mingo, Jack. (1994) How the Cadillac Got its Fins New York: HarperBusiness. Schodt, Frederick L. (1996). Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. External links Donkey Kong at Arcade History Donkey Kong platform games Nintendo Research & Development 1 games Video games designed by Shigeru Miyamoto Video games directed by Shigeru Miyamoto Video games produced by Gunpei Yokoi Vertically-oriented video games 1981 video games Apple II games Arcade video games Atari 2600 games Atari 7800 games Atari 8-bit family games ColecoVision games Commodore 64 games VIC-20 games Nintendo e-Reader games Famicom Disk System games Game & Watch games Game Boy Advance games Intellivision games MSX games Nintendo arcade games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Switch Online games Nintendo Switch games Pack-in video games Single-player video games TI-99/4A games Video games developed in Japan Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console games for Wii Virtual Console games for Wii U ZX Spectrum