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30th Anniversary of Donkey Kong
An anonymous reader writes "30 years ago this month, Nintendo released Donkey Kong — an iconic arcade machine that put the company on the video game map and introduced Mario. Technologizer's Benj Edwards celebrated the anniversary by rounding up some of the game's odder sidelights. For instance, it was originally going to be a game about Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl — and among its stranger offshoots was a pocket-sized game in which Donkey Kong and Mario faced off in hockey."
Gamasutra has a more detailed article about the game's development.
...a barrel full of monkeys. Congrats, Nintendo!
The more you know, the more you have to say and the more you should listen.
Videos (part 1, part 2).
Made by Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum member Bender.
I was just explaining to my young kids how I played this growing up. The kept asking me why I only got to play as Mario when the game was called Donkey Kong. It reminded me of Patrick Stewart explaining that he thought "Star Trek" was the name of the ship when he auditioned for ST:TNG.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Damned ape took more lives than a serial killer at a hitchhiker convention.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The video
Trolling is a art,
I think Slashdot should jsut be banned from posting links to Technologizer.
I generally don't complain about article formats, but this is the worst I've ever seen. The article is 15 pages long, with 2 paragraphs of text on each page, and a picture of Donkey Kong that is bigger than the article text. At first, I couldn't even find the article because the page layout is so dumb I had to scroll to the right to see it.
No thanks. Made it all the way to page 2.
And for that matter do donkeys?
Anyone know? Do I have buy a Wii or something?
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
...and it's still on like Donkey Kong.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I highly recommend The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
"For instance, it was originally going to be a game about Popeye, Bluto, and Olive Oyl."
Actually, Nintendo *did* make a Popeye video game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(video_game) It was both in the Arcade and on the NES.
At the start I was trying to figure out if that song was so bad it's good, or just shit. Having listened to it all the way through, I'd say it's pretty obviously... just shit. Not actually funny, not amusingly bad, not so offensive that you have to laugh, just crap.
BTW, I'm looking at the guy I assume's the singer and getting the vibe that he's one of those large blokes that has a small cock you can barely see with his belly in the way. I'd say "put up or shut up" with the donkey dick chant, but apparently he's been dead for like 14 years. So even if he had a donkey dick before, it's probably not so impressive now.
The man who made up zelda based on childhood memories of exploring the countryside sure as hell did not base donkey kong on an American cartoon, go on youtube search for "history of video games" there is a g-4 show where he shows the original storyboards, including killing kong at the end.
Doo, doo, doo dee dee doo, doo, doo dee dee doo, doo...
You hear that Mr. Mario? That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death...
Ah, that'll be why the following series were called "Deep Space 9", "Voyager", and "Enterprise".
The movie, if you have not seen it, is a complete waste of time. The game though, it still rules.
So, was the name Donkey Kong a classic translation error or not?
Really?? One whole web page full of advertisements, and 2 paragraphs of actual content? And there's 15 total pages?
Closed tab at page 2.
But hey, Happy Birthday Donkey Kong!
They missed one of the more interesting facts. One that I didn't know about until I played on an original Donkey Kong arcade that had been embedded into a table in a burrito restaurant in Orono, Maine, and read the instructions. The character's original name was Jumpman.
There was also the Super Game Boy game, that wasn't much like the original but it was fucking awesome. It's on the 3DS's virtual console if it's too hard to find a cartridge.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I've still got my copy of Donkey Kong from 1983 in cassette form for my Acorn Electron (BBC Micro clone) buried in my parents attic, wonder if it still works?