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wow, it is kinda unexpected that both Mario and Donkey Kong started in the same game. and that in first Donkey Kong game, the main mario was the main characte
by rk06 2mo ago
wow, it is kinda unexpected that
both Mario and Donkey Kong started in the same game. and that in first Donkey Kong game, the main mario was the main character.
- rjsw 2mo agoYou could run the original game in Mame.
- amiga386 2mo agoYou could stick it in an arcade cabinet and pretend it's the real thing, like Billy Mitchell https://perfectpacman.com/2022/09/06/new-technical-analysis/ https://perfectpacman.com/2022/09/06/new-technical-analysis/
- werdnapk 2mo agoI fired up DK in mame after the King of Kong documentary came out and ended up playing quite a lot as I recalled as a kid having a very difficult time getting anywhere in the game. It was fairly satisfying getting through all the main stages for the first time.
- chocochunks 2mo agoIt's also been re-released on Nintendo Switch as a part of Arcade Archives.
- rusk 2mo agoIt’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…
- rk06 2mo agoit is not a secret but very unexpected. when I heard of donkey kong, it was in context of donkey kong franchise which obviously feature Donkey Kong as main character just like mario is main character of mario games. so technically first Donkey Kong game in Donkey Kong series is actually a Mario game. i understand why and how it happened. but this is a trivia that you either know or you would not believe from untrusted sources
- hnlmorg 2mo agoIt’s more the other way around: the first Mario game was a Donkey Kong game. The user avatar is only “Mario” in appearance. He was called “Jump Man” in that game and even his outfit colours differed from the Mario games that followed.
- rk06 2mo agoyou have it backwards . the game was "a Mario game", but it was called "Donkey Kong", so it comes under Donkey Kong franchise.
- staticman2 2mo agoI don't know why we are making this arbitrary distinction between Mario games and Donkey Kong games. But if we are the main Mario franchise games are the "Super Mario" games. Donkey Kong is not part of the "Super Mario" series and his "Mario" is not "Super" .
- tracker1 2mo agoWorth remembering Mario Bros (Not Super)... it's basically the combat mode in SM3+ but as a stand alone game.
- dec0dedab0de 2mo agoDonkey Kong is the main character. Mario was just who the player controlled, he was so unimportant he didn't have a name and they just called him Jump Man.
- technothrasher 2mo agoHard to be unexpected for the many of us who lived it. It wasn't that long ago. I remember first seeing a ColecoVison, which shipped with Donkey Kong, and being amazed that, unlike on the Atari 2600, the home version of Donkey Kong actually looked very close to the arcade version.
- kevin_thibedeau 2mo agoThere is a modern homebrew 2600 DK which is much better than the original.
- pipes 2mo agoWas he called jump man at that point or am I misremembering this?