Arcade Week: Day #7
Darkness falls across the land, after we shot some aliens, helped some frogs cross a road, shot some asteroids, shot some more aliens (we love shooting huh), appeared in the olympics, and got chased around a maze we finally made it. We finally found the king of the arcade scene and we’re finally ready to meet him. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Donkey Kong. He was created in 1981 by Shigeru Miyamoto in an attempt to copy the success of pac-man and it definitely worked. The game even got some legal issues thanks to universal and its similarity to King Kong but thankfully that all got cleared up and we can still enjoy Donkey Kong to this day. So let’s hop in shall we? Cause it’s on like…uhh…
In Donkey Kong, you play as jump man (a very imaginative name but he would later become Mario) on his mission to save his girlfriend Pauline. To do that however, he must Climb up the platforms and avoid the falling barrels to make it. The interesting thing about this game however is the fact that it has multiple differed stages which was quite groundbreaking for the time. These levels will bring in new ways to get points and even more obstacles to try and avoid at all costs or else well…maybe you’re gonna have to get a new girlfriend buddy.
Overall, Donkey Kong is probably one of my favourites when it comes to the arcade scene. Sure, I’ve said it before that dig dug will always be my favourite but I can’t help but really get into this game because of just how imaginative it all is, you can tell how much work and effort they put into this and not just a mindless game to capitalise off the success of pac-man, this game is a lot more special then that. It would not only go on to inspire the Mario series, but other series like Kirby as well. Remember the legal action between Nintendo and universal? Well if it wasn’t for John Kirby, who knows what would’ve happened to the game. And that my friends, was our arcade week, thank you so much for reading.
Good gameplay, decent music, I have ptsd from barrels now, and springs in fact
Happy Halloween!
Darkness falls across the land, after we shot some aliens, helped some frogs cross a road, shot some asteroids, shot some more aliens (we love shooting huh), appeared in the olympics, and got chased around a maze we finally made it. We finally found the king of the arcade scene and we’re finally ready to meet him. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Donkey Kong. He was created in 1981 by Shigeru Miyamoto in an attempt to copy the success of pac-man and it definitely worked. The game even got some legal issues thanks to universal and its similarity to King Kong but thankfully that all got cleared up and we can still enjoy Donkey Kong to this day. So let’s hop in shall we? Cause it’s on like…uhh…
In Donkey Kong, you play as jump man (a very imaginative name but he would later become Mario) on his mission to save his girlfriend Pauline. To do that however, he must Climb up the platforms and avoid the falling barrels to make it. The interesting thing about this game however is the fact that it has multiple differed stages which was quite groundbreaking for the time. These levels will bring in new ways to get points and even more obstacles to try and avoid at all costs or else well…maybe you’re gonna have to get a new girlfriend buddy.
Overall, Donkey Kong is probably one of my favourites when it comes to the arcade scene. Sure, I’ve said it before that dig dug will always be my favourite but I can’t help but really get into this game because of just how imaginative it all is, you can tell how much work and effort they put into this and not just a mindless game to capitalise off the success of pac-man, this game is a lot more special then that. It would not only go on to inspire the Mario series, but other series like Kirby as well. Remember the legal action between Nintendo and universal? Well if it wasn’t for John Kirby, who knows what would’ve happened to the game. And that my friends, was our arcade week, thank you so much for reading.
Good gameplay, decent music, I have ptsd from barrels now, and springs in fact
Happy Halloween!
whu
6 months ago