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In case you've never seen it, here's a look at the best Donkey Kong port ever written for any platform.
Not too long ago I dug my Atari 800 out of the garage, dusted it off, and after all these years it started right up like it was brand new. Playing all my old game cartridges again was great from a nostalgia angle, but only one of them, Donkey Kong, is compelling enough to keep me coming back for more.
What a work of art that thing is! Others have said it was the best port of Donkey Kong, and I’m inclined to agree. Prior to getting an Atari 800, I’d received a brand new ColecoVision for Christmas, and the big lure of the Coleco console was that it came with Donkey Kong. I was blown away by how good it was, and I guess when compared to the games on a 2600 or an Intellivision, Coleco’s Kong was pretty good.
The thing kept freezing up on me, however, so we wound up returning it. Thank goodness for that, as I otherwise wouldn’t have gotten the Atari 800 and, later on, Atari’s Donkey Kong, which made Coleco’s port (even the “super” version for the Adam) look, well…
Compared to the Atari cart, Coleco’s Kong was, at best, unfinished. And that’s if we’re being kind.
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By the way, I played this on nintendo a few times as a kid and it reminds me of this atari version. I thought this was the nintendo version.
There was an arcade machine you could walk up to (as Donkey Kong himself) and play this game. It wasn't quite like this though, more like the arcade version of course.