When Donkey Kong was released in the arcades, Universal Studios filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Nintendo of America. Universal Studios claimed that the storyline of Donkey Kong infringed on the same storyline as King Kong. The basic story of a gorilla capturing a woman and taking her to the top of a building. At the time Nintendo of America was a relatively small company and Universal Studios knew this and thought the lawsuit was a slamdunk win. When the lawsuit was filed, anything related to DK was forced to cease production. This included production of the cabinets, the Saturday morning cartoon was pulled, stragety books, etc. Well, NOA's lawyer, John Kirby, made the discovery that Universal's copyright of King Kong expired in the late 70s. Obviously, when this information was presented in court, NOA won the lawsuit and it cost Universal big time. Regarding the lawyer, John Kirby, NOA decided to show him gratitude for what he did by naming a new character after him. You know who I am talking about. That pink puffball that likes to inhale things like a vacuum cleaner. As soon as it was shrinkwrapped, Mr. Kirby was presented with the very first copy of Kirby's Adventure for the NES. To end this story, just think where NOA would be today if it were not for Mr. Kirby making that discovery. The characters, DK and Kirby, would not even exist. Meaning all of the excellent games starring these two beloved characters would have never been enjoyed by millions worldwide.
Amazing how much talent the people who did these "homebrew" games did to coax this much from 30-40 year old hardware that had lesser games running on them then.
When Donkey Kong was released in the arcades, Universal Studios
filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Nintendo of America.
Universal Studios claimed that the storyline of Donkey Kong infringed on the same storyline as King Kong. The basic story of a gorilla capturing a
woman and taking her to the top of a building. At the time Nintendo of
America was a relatively small company and Universal Studios knew this
and thought the lawsuit was a slamdunk win. When the lawsuit was
filed, anything related to DK was forced to cease production. This
included production of the cabinets, the Saturday morning cartoon was
pulled, stragety books, etc. Well, NOA's lawyer, John Kirby, made the
discovery that Universal's copyright of King Kong expired in the late 70s.
Obviously, when this information was presented in court, NOA won the
lawsuit and it cost Universal big time.
Regarding the lawyer, John Kirby, NOA decided to show him gratitude
for what he did by naming a new character after him. You know who I
am talking about. That pink puffball that likes to inhale things like a
vacuum cleaner. As soon as it was shrinkwrapped, Mr. Kirby was
presented with the very first copy of Kirby's Adventure for the NES.
To end this story, just think where NOA would be today if it were not for
Mr. Kirby making that discovery. The characters, DK and Kirby, would
not even exist. Meaning all of the excellent games starring these two
beloved characters would have never been enjoyed by millions
worldwide.
Amazing how much talent the people who did these "homebrew" games did to coax this much from 30-40 year old hardware that had lesser games running on them then.
28:22 mario crushed donkey kong 😳😱🫣
28:20 *”Wait, you can’t do that in donkey Kon-“*
the idea of taking advantage of 60fps to flicker between two different colors making an illusionary third color is really cool.
You can also into the pause menu to turn it off.
When
@@RuffRuff9971the atari 2600 remakes and the pico-8 demake
My favorites are 4:35 15:49 18:00 22:14 23:19 26:36
“‘How high can you get?’ Well I dunno depends on how much weed ya have” - SMG4
Lol for a second I thought @SMG4 actually commented on my channel!😂...not
No SMG4 Added for @Retromantra
Which video is that from?
4:30 dk had no eyes
All these years later, and they still haven't redesigned that god awful squeaky sound mario makes when he walks.
I feel like Donkey Kong 94 on the Super GameBoy would have deserved a spot !
If this 15:48 was an actual nes game the console will burn at an instant 💀 😂
The C64 Has Real life colors and has Been good Dawg!
Is it just me or does the C64 version of DK look like Evil Monkey from Family Guy?
23:15 MY Favorite is snes!
15:49 i cant believe that it was made for nes 😱
@@mjoldagg it wasn’t though.
The remake made for the Vectrex fever cart is awesome. Totally vectorized graphics
4:27 What Sound Effect is it
Why do windows be looking like an off brand version of DK for the SNES
The Lonely Goomba didn't play these versions.
0:01 he lost some eyes in the title 3:04 donkey kong look shaded 1 11:55 wow the music
C64 song: rocks
my favorite is hd pack
I'm starting to make Donkey Kong comparisons like you!
All the best!
somebody called Ninimaginendo games is making Super mario bros super mario advance 5
The NES HD Pack looks the worst 😅
It has Paper Mario with Donkey Kong and Pauline (from Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2) with realistic barrels over an AI-generated (i think?) background
oh come on dinky Kong
How about that extra stage on 10:51? Anyone like it?
17:47
Se rifo el Atari 2600 por el sonido y los gráficos para ganar
You forgot Donkey Kong Craze
Never heard of it
I love Donkey Kong
Why paper jumpman? 15:55
What years were these remakes?
hi, added the dates in Time Stamps where available.
@@Retromantra Thanks, was trying to reconcile everything in the video.
Too bad Donkey Kong Arcade 2600 isn't on the list.
I haven't seen that one. Where do I find it?
It dont say how high can you get? In the N.E.S. version
18:04
7:15
First
The Amiga One Is Awful!!
IS HORRIBLE THE MS DOS
23:15 MY favorite is snes!
4:24