The barrel collision (I think they are barrels) is pretty forgiving and you will constantly be thinking you will be hitting them only to clear them. Game Control is smooth and I found the jumping response nice and clean with the added bonus of being able to jump forward and backward with ease. The level is clearly defined and if you played Donkey Kong it is clear what you need to do. Kong looks horrible (worse than Atari Donkey Kong), but the woman and the man look pretty good. The cartridge and package look great and when you fire it up, the game looks pretty good. They just wanted to make the very first game, made purely for spite. Of course, maybe they had no intention of making a good game. I say pale shadow because the gameplay design/conventions are borrowed straight from DK.
#ATARI DONKEY KONG LICENSE#
While they were doing this, they decided to officially license the game and had Tigervision crank out this middling title that is a pale shadow of Donkey Kong. The lawsuit lasted a long time and went nowhere.
They saw it as theft of their property and sued Nintendo. You can follow him on Instagram and at his YouTube channel.The folks who made King Kong were pretty annoyed with Donkey Kong. Brian is a Moderator in the Atari I/O Forums under the name btbfilms76. He is host of The Jag Bar, Lynx Lounge, 7800 Avenue, and the Atari I/O After Hours Podcast. Donkey Kong was released by Atari for the 7800 in 1988.īrian Thomas Barnhart is a classic gaming aficionado, retro pop culture connoisseur, and a Senior Fellow at Atari I/O. The original Donkey Kong was created by Shigeru Miyamoto at Nintendo. Anyway, we will see you guys later! Take it easy! Join us next time on 7800 Avenue! And check out Lynx Lounge and Jag Bar, those are great shows and we do it all here in the new studio and talk about some really great Atari games. You can check out Pixel Vault Games on Instagram, and Carlos on Instagram too! I enjoyed playing Donkey Kong with my friends Armando and Carlos from Pixel Vault Games in Ontario, California. the sound is meh…” You’d be playing with your buddy! You’d be playing Donkey Kong!Īlright, well that’s it! We have got two more Nintendo games on Atari 7800 that we’re going to be looking at later on in the next episodes of 7800 Avenue, Donkey Kong Jr. You wouldn’t have some kid that was like, with folded arms saying “You know what. But I think if you were a kid, in 1986, in 1984… you know, you’d be like “Hey I’ve got Donkey Kong man, come over and play Donkey Kong!” I think it’s easy for us now to rattle off a bunch of systems in hindsight to compare and criticize the sound capabilities of each system. Nintendo on Atari, when Nintendo was ruling the earth. So in 1988 Nintendo was already doing it’s thing, the NES was huge, and yet Donkey Kong is coming out on the Atari 7800. Nintendo released Donkey Kong to the arcades in 1981, and this version was released for the Atari 7800 in 1988. prototype, one of the first carts ever w/ the name “Mario Bros.”įor this review we’re going to be playing the original Donkey Kong on Atari 7800. It’s wild to think about.Ītari Mario Bros.
Imagine what it would be like to see a Super Mario game on Sony PlayStation. Seeing a Nintendo-exclusive game on a different console is crazy. Everybody knows how strict Nintendo is on their licensing. It’s really hard to imagine now, playing a Nintendo-exclusive game on another console. Can you imagine that? Nintendo games on Atari. We’re going to start off by playing some Nintendo games on Atari, starting with Donkey Kong. Nintendo on Atari: Donkey Kong on the Atari 7800
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