Donald Duck/ja-en

This game's text originally used little to no kanji. We have added kanji in case they would be of interest.

Event descriptions

Each of these has ゲーム, i.e. "game", appended in its corresponding intro screen.

Japanese

みのむし

Kanji

蓑虫

English

Bagworm

• The sack race. A bagworm is a type of moth that constructs a "bag" to live in during its larval stage.

Japanese

くつなげ

Kanji

靴投げ

English

Shoe throwing

• 投げ comes from 投げる, meaning "throw". The masu stem of a verb is used to turn it into a noun. We'll see this construction a couple more times.

Japanese

ホッピング

English

Hopping

• The pogo event.

Japanese

おとしっこ

Kanji

落としっこ

English

Throw-down contest

• This is the gondola event, where the objective is to throw your opponent off the gondola. 落とし is from 落とす; again, the masu stem makes it a noun. The suffix っこ basically means "contest".

Japanese

ピザはこび

Kanji

ピザ運び

English

Pizza carrying

Japanese

かわとび

Kanji

川跳び

English

River jumping

• 跳ぶ means "jump". There is a related verb 飛ぶ (which is also read とぶ) which means "fly". Try not to confuse 'em!