Donkey Kong is a classic arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. It is an early example of a platform game, where the player controls Mario (originally Jumpman) and must rescue a damsel in distress from the giant ape Donkey Kong. The game introduced characters that would become iconic in Nintendo's history.
you'd get to a level where it was kind of like um you know, Donkey Kong from the 1980s or something, right? Where simulations are just really crappy.
""The speaker uses Donkey Kong as an example of a low-fidelity simulation from the 1980s, indicating it as a recognizable product."