[What's What! Video Game Facts (68/365)

The first video game to get its own cereal was Donkey Kong, became the biggest selling arcade game, overtaking the top spot from Pac-Man, after the huge success of arcade in 1981, Nintendo didn't want to waste the opportunity of greater profits of the furry friend and his theme, so go to Ralcorp more specifically to it subsidiary Ralston which was already a well-known company manufacturer of various food products, including breakfast cereal, cookies, crackers, chocolate, snack foods, mayonnaise, pasta, and peanut butter, well you know everything that people need for a healthy diet.

Ralston don't waste any time and capitalized the popularity of the game by introducing in 1982 Donkey Kong Cereal. The cereal was made up entirely of tiny barrel-shaped puffs and was “barrels of fun for breakfast,” as the slogan goes, also as all cereal, the company started a television advertising, where the cereal is promoted as "the sweet, crunchy, corn taste will drive you ape." (Da Bum Pss)

The cereals were produced and marketed until 1989 when they were discontinued, after this, Donkey Kong Cereal was followed by General Mills Pac-Man Cereal in 1983.