The game he came up with was Donkey Kong.

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Keeping a quick pace, I looked at the climb as an opportunity to work off all the Arabian sweets I had consumed the days prior to Petra, and easily passed those choosing the very popular donkey ride up the never-ending steps.

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Most of us grew up on Mario and Link and Donkey Kong.

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The Kafarnehs' previous dispute, with Beit Hanoun's rival Masri clan, started after a minor collision between a car and a donkey cart and ended up claiming eight lives.

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Then there was the time in the early 1980s when he prospected for gold in the jungles of Mexico, where his life was threatened first by a doped-up expatriate then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.

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His life was threatened twice, first by a doped-up expatriate and then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.

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In the period before last month's elections to the European Parliament, Mr Prodi set up yet another new party, the Democrats (already better-known as L'Asinello, the Little Donkey, after its Disney-type logo).

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