This is the version my dad and I played when I was very young. Although the palette was different (red and green) and it ran a little faster. We had a Tandy 1000 to play it on, and I believe it had a clock speed of 4.77 Mhz.
@@solarflare9078 the game was modded to have the level and flashed on a same sized rom chip. no issues. Donkey Kong classics is also the same size rom chip containing both dk and dkjr.
greenknight9000 I can't help you with the creepypasta thing, IDK how to make a pasta. tell someone who knows how to make one to make a CGA Donkey Kong Creepypasta
I wouldn’t be surprised if this version was straight ported from the apple || version or vice versa. The elivator stage is unusually hard in such an unfair way since donkeykong throws 3 springs at you wich you could hardly dodge and even if you only hit those springs (or whether enemy) by just 1 pixel,you will die,it’s just sooo unfair,even with save state on the apple || version it took me dozens of tries just to get past the elivator stage,ouch
Untrue. By the latter 80’s many high quality games were out - using both ega and vga. I switched over to pc gaming from Atari and apple, in ega around 88/89. In those days I had good adventure rpg games and action games like their finest hour, tongue of the fat man, die hard, Indiana jones and the last crusade, etc.
I don't expect a lot from a 1983 port of a 1981 game for a PC that only had CGA and PC speaker sound but there absolutely no excuse for the music to turn out so badly with lots of sour notes. Put that up against most 8-bit computers and game consoles of the time, those totally clobbered the PC. But then the PC was meant for business so graphics and sound weren't exactly priory at that time
You are quite right. I had this version for 286 - it ran much better there but was little better than the apple 2 version I had. Not to mention that I had the Atari 8 bit version - the best one by far of the era. That was the only home version I really enjoyed (I was a pretty good dk arcade player having won local contests - no Billy Mitchell mind you! 😂😂)
This version looks bad because it used a color graphics array mode that many MS-DOS computers used to have before the VGA was made. So the CGA has 4 colors (black, cyan, magenta, white) and the VGA had 16 or 256 colors. In this version of Donkey Kong, there was also no key to exit the game and return to the Command line, but the DOS Pac-Man did. Here, the only way to exit was control alt delete, which made old computers return to the command line.
Very impressive. I mean it's CGA and 1983. All 4 levels included and surprisingly amount of animation on Donkey Kongs part compared to many other ports back then. Despite the graphical limitations it really makes the most out of what it can. That being said I have a lot of respect for the work put into this. I played a ton of bad CGA games in my day and this is actually very impressive. Prince of Persia might be the most impressive CGA game I have ever seen. This port doesn't fall short of being up to par with most of the ports in the early 80s that is for certain.
Wrong. It isn’t impressive in the slightest. The apple 2 version with much slower cpu considerably faster and better. That’s not to mention the phenomenal Atari 8 bit version. Both of which had all 4 levels. the very good colecovision version, the adequate c64, ti99 versions etc. may have had 3 levels but were far superior to this as well, despite that limitation. You obviously know nothing at all about the era.
@@Miler97487 I was thinking that even as I typed it!! I had that feeling - probably read that somewhere, but I never had one. Thanks for the correction. That makes at least 5 versions with all 4 levels.
You probably think you're joking, but the Atari developers were actually a bunch of hippies and they confirmed that they were regularly smoking weed in their office
Sorta. There was support for 16 colors, but only with a pure CGA card (needed composite or RGB-I output). Latest versions of DOSbox supports it if the system is set to "CGA".
Whoever did this clearly wasn't a perfectionist…or even close. The music's pacing is out of whack, even compared to Alley Cat, Donkey Kong himself looks as if Ganon possessed him, and the font looks awkward compared to the IBM PC's own text-mode font. They really should've waited until the IBM PC-AT or something. (At least the levels themselves are faithful to the originals.)
My dad bought some 3.5" disk that had "Lots of Games" hand written on it from a guy in the middle of the mall with crap tons of copied floppies. I figured the games were home made. It had a Star Wars game on it that when you quit it had misspelled "May the Farce be wit you". This was also included on it. I figured it was a knockoff but little did I know this was a real released game. I played it on our Tandy 1000EX and it seemed to run a lot faster but looked and sounded just as bad lol!
Well,what do i have to say: The donkey kong sprite looks weird because the skin color is the same as his teeth making it weird. At least Pauline is normal size (unlike the zx spectrum version) I think mario kinda broke his back by the looks of his sprite It got all levels! Be glad it got 'em (unlike the nes version) C'mon,we all know that early DOS games and early pc games in general were bad. But i'm not saying that all DOS games are bad.
No you absolutely were not. This tells me you weren’t around at the time. This is abysmal graphics even by 1983 standards (and most played the pc version MUCH later). Even the apple 2 version with 70’s hardware had comparable graphics, the same abysmal sound, and played far faster on a much slower cpu. If one had the phenomenal Atari 8 bit version, or even the colecovision version, one would be excited. Even the ti99 or c64 versions. This is horrific especially given the cost of the pc platform at that time. Why do dullards who know nothing about the era so smug as to think they should make declarations about the era? Well… dullards is the operative word.
@@datacipher Well maybe I feel that way because I was around before these kind of graphics were even a thought. I guess you would've had to have been there to understand my comment. When your first years of TV video games involved a Pong system you played with your brother on a console TV while sitting on bright and dark green shag carpet...then you were amazed by what was soon to come. So yes...as a matter of fact...when you were one of the fortunate ones with graphics beyond sticks and squares...you were running around and talking exactly the way I said.
@@gregc.9035 rofl. Nice try bud. Like none of us were around then lol. If you were there playing pong on your shag carpet, you certainly were exposed to the Atari 2600, astrocade, Intellivision, Atari 8 bit, colecovision, Atari 5200, blah blah blah... let alone arcade games. This didn't impress anyone by 83, let alone by the later 80's when most people were playing cga games. You're trying to tell us that YOU went straight from Telstar pong to a cga pc? ROFL. Let's pretend you did - that's not what anyone else did, so don't claim we were all amazed, just because you ALLEGEDLY lived in a cave with pong until you got an IBM PC. LOL....just typing it makes me laugh. And if you then went around telling everyone about your amazing graphics as you claim, did they laugh in your face? You didn't even have this experience obviously. You made up a fantasy to write this statement which you thought everyone would agree with. They don't - because we were there. Look at the other comments. Don't be a buffoon. 1977 apple 2 hardware played this game with nearly identical graphics and sound with far more speed. 1979 Atari 8 bit hardware donkey kong CRUSHES this. Not going to argue with it - if you're not man enough to just admit you made a silly statement, so be it.
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Donkey Kong in this port looks like a deranged Lotso Bear.
HE HAS NO SOUL!
HE HAS NO GRACE!
THIS KONG COMES FROM
A FORSAKEN PLACE!
DK, Donkey Kong!
D̴̢̺͚̱̀̈́̉K̵̤͒͆͛͐͠,̴̛̛͓̪̾͠ ̷̣̪̺̏̏̽͠D̴̤̰̆̌͠ò̸̳̙͖̗̐̈n̸̡̡̘̏k̸̢̡̗̜̇e̶͎͎̪̊y̵̘̟͎̻̠͛̆̓̀ ̸͚̬̜̼̉̆̉̅͘ͅK̷̳͍͑̉͒͋͘ó̵̢n̷̦̞̻̅̐͝g̶̡̧̫̹͒̆̊͗!̶̗̣͚̣̈́͠ ̶͍̣̤̬̾͋̎͊
He's one *hell* of a guy!
Of course you realize, this means war!
that ladder climbing sprite looks like a sprite that a 7-year old looking at a cactus would have made.
This is the version my dad and I played when I was very young. Although the palette was different (red and green) and it ran a little faster. We had a Tandy 1000 to play it on, and I believe it had a clock speed of 4.77 Mhz.
Donkey kong looks different. He looks like a pink colored demon.
Pinky from Doom?.
Totally Creepypasta
It's like if Lotso Bear from Toy Story 3 became more demonic...
@@DeadRaymanWalking lovechild of sully and lotso
İt seems like A cursed mascot
Even this version has the second level. NES has no excuse.
seriously, screw the NES version lol. i feel so cheated after playing so much of it..
It did have an excuse. Ever heard of memory constraints?
@@solarflare9078 the game was modded to have the level and flashed on a same sized rom chip. no issues. Donkey Kong classics is also the same size rom chip containing both dk and dkjr.
@@IzludeTingel can you link the romhack that adds the 2nd level?
@@solarflare9078 It was an NES with 3 screens; there is no way that they didn't have memory for a fourth.
that donkey kong sprite is nightmare fuel
No, it's more like Creepypasta fuel.
Scott Blacklock
SOME ONE MAKE ONE WITH THIS THE MAIN PLOT!
greenknight9000 I can't help you with the creepypasta thing, IDK how to make a pasta. tell someone who knows how to make one to make a CGA Donkey Kong Creepypasta
Scott Blacklock
k
What’s the difference between this Kong and Satan.
Satan might show you mercy.
DOS Donkey Kong, still a better love story than twilight
My DOS Donkey Kong fan fiction is also rather impressive.
😂
@@bubbythebear6891 is it on Wattpad
@@lynxunemuon Unfortunately it was banned from the internet.
@@bubbythebear6891 Damn sorry to hear bro
I wouldn’t be surprised if this version was straight ported from the apple || version or vice versa.
The elivator stage is unusually hard in such an unfair way since donkeykong throws 3 springs at you wich you could hardly dodge and even if you only hit those springs (or whether enemy) by just 1 pixel,you will die,it’s just sooo unfair,even with save state on the apple || version it took me dozens of tries just to get past the elivator stage,ouch
I suspect it was. Although the apple 2 version ran much better despite having much less cpu power.
THAT DONKEY KONG IS NIGHTMARE FUEL
I agree with you.
Nope, its creepypasta fuel
no shit look what these fucktards did to the apple ii version and ms dos version they screwed it up in the atari version too.
I a god
When I watch this. I get a lot of nostalgia. Well, I was a kid in the 80s
This port makes Shiggy cry.
Donkey kong's face is nightmare fuel
Just when you thought the Intellivision port was awful.
this scares me
Demon Donkey Kong is my spirit animal
3:48 It looked like he's dancing if you put it on 2x speed
Looks like he’s Doing the floss
@@TheQueenThatsaArtist LMAO i'm envisioning it
Wow, Pauline Is Now Wii Fit Trainer
mario with inverted kneecaps in pink overalls rescues wii fit trainer from lotso and sully's lovechild
This is related to Apple II but it’s slower you should put it at 2x for original speed
Try playing at 2 speed it plays then like Apple II.
WE KNOW
Imagine after telling people you were a pc gamer in the 80s
Untrue. By the latter 80’s many high quality games were out - using both ega and vga. I switched over to pc gaming from Atari and apple, in ega around 88/89. In those days I had good adventure rpg games and action games like their finest hour, tongue of the fat man, die hard, Indiana jones and the last crusade, etc.
You can see Donkey Kong's foot when you clear the level when he climbs up the ladder
Donkey Kong looks like a pink Krampus.
I don't expect a lot from a 1983 port of a 1981 game for a PC that only had CGA and PC speaker sound but there absolutely no excuse for the music to turn out so badly with lots of sour notes. Put that up against most 8-bit computers and game consoles of the time, those totally clobbered the PC. But then the PC was meant for business so graphics and sound weren't exactly priory at that time
You are quite right. I had this version for 286 - it ran much better there but was little better than the apple 2 version I had. Not to mention that I had the Atari 8 bit version - the best one by far of the era. That was the only home version I really enjoyed (I was a pretty good dk arcade player having won local contests - no Billy Mitchell mind you! 😂😂)
If the PC has a Turbo switch, the sound and frame rate will go faster, but on some models...it will run too fast.
0:08
Why do I imagine this thing standing at the foot of my bed, and watching me sleep(And not in the cute romantic way)?
😣
Why in the galaxy is mario running up the girders so slowly in normal speed?
Mom could we play donkey kong?
Mom: we have donkey Kong at home.
Donkey Kong at home:
This version looks bad because it used a color graphics array mode that many MS-DOS computers used to have before the VGA was made. So the CGA has 4 colors (black, cyan, magenta, white) and the VGA had 16 or 256 colors.
In this version of Donkey Kong, there was also no key to exit the game and return to the Command line, but the DOS Pac-Man did. Here, the only way to exit was control alt delete, which made old computers return to the command line.
And now I don't want to hear anybody saying that ZX Spectrum is the worst port.
(I have it and I actually like it)
I have it on an emulator and I love it too!! I have to fix my Xbox joystick on my controller so I can play it properly, otherwise it’s great!
Very impressive. I mean it's CGA and 1983. All 4 levels included and surprisingly amount of animation on Donkey Kongs part compared to many other ports back then. Despite the graphical limitations it really makes the most out of what it can. That being said I have a lot of respect for the work put into this. I played a ton of bad CGA games in my day and this is actually very impressive. Prince of Persia might be the most impressive CGA game I have ever seen. This port doesn't fall short of being up to par with most of the ports in the early 80s that is for certain.
Wrong. It isn’t impressive in the slightest. The apple 2 version with much slower cpu considerably faster and better. That’s not to mention the phenomenal Atari 8 bit version. Both of which had all 4 levels. the very good colecovision version, the adequate c64, ti99 versions etc. may have had 3 levels but were far superior to this as well, despite that limitation.
You obviously know nothing at all about the era.
I owned Donkey Kong for the TI-99/4A and it has all four levels.
@@Miler97487 I was thinking that even as I typed it!! I had that feeling - probably read that somewhere, but I never had one. Thanks for the correction. That makes at least 5 versions with all 4 levels.
How high did the programmers get?
Lynxune The Lynx, on drugs while making this awful port?
You probably think you're joking, but the Atari developers were actually a bunch of hippies and they confirmed that they were regularly smoking weed in their office
When you die it sounds like your playing a game of the old simon says electronic
Those fire things scare me.and the snake fire things too
Sorta. There was support for 16 colors, but only with a pure CGA card (needed composite or RGB-I output). Latest versions of DOSbox supports it if the system is set to "CGA".
What in the holy hell? Is that booberry chasing uhh the postman?
Tara-the-Android-I-Feel-Fantastic vibe...
if donkey kong were creepypasta
Next time, you should try running this game using the "Mode 5 - High Intensity" palette where the colors are Bright Cyan, Bright Red and White.
Donkey Kong looks like lotso hugging bear on steroids! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He's hilarious!
Glad I'm not the only one who made this similarity. 🤣
this is similar to the Apple II port
God, this game has sooo much swag that my teeth are turning gold just watching this video
DK looks like an amalgamation of Sully and Lotso.
This was very lazily programmed. :(
This game is creepy
donkey kong looks like a demon in this game! :o
Yep
Whoever did this clearly wasn't a perfectionist…or even close. The music's pacing is out of whack, even compared to Alley Cat, Donkey Kong himself looks as if Ganon possessed him, and the font looks awkward compared to the IBM PC's own text-mode font. They really should've waited until the IBM PC-AT or something. (At least the levels themselves are faithful to the originals.)
My dad bought some 3.5" disk that had "Lots of Games" hand written on it from a guy in the middle of the mall with crap tons of copied floppies. I figured the games were home made. It had a Star Wars game on it that when you quit it had misspelled "May the Farce be wit you". This was also included on it. I figured it was a knockoff but little did I know this was a real released game. I played it on our Tandy 1000EX and it seemed to run a lot faster but looked and sounded just as bad lol!
Well,what do i have to say:
The donkey kong sprite looks weird because the skin color is the same as his teeth making it weird.
At least Pauline is normal size (unlike the zx spectrum version)
I think mario kinda broke his back by the looks of his sprite
It got all levels! Be glad it got 'em (unlike the nes version)
C'mon,we all know that early DOS games and early pc games in general were bad. But i'm not saying that all DOS games are bad.
Good god the monstrosity of this DK. I'll stick to the Calleco and Atari 7800 version ahha
this is fucking terrifying for some reason
Donkey kong looks creepy in this version. Baloney, I'll show him how strong I am! 😠
Ugandan DK?
Now Imma Sleep, With Mah Mum
why is this so creepy
😰
donkey kong is so cute ngl
HOW
Memories 😎👍👍
When you had this back in the day, you were running around telling everyone about the amazing graphics your games at home had.
No you absolutely were not. This tells me you weren’t around at the time. This is abysmal graphics even by 1983 standards (and most played the pc version MUCH later). Even the apple 2 version with 70’s hardware had comparable graphics, the same abysmal sound, and played far faster on a much slower cpu. If one had the phenomenal Atari 8 bit version, or even the colecovision version, one would be excited. Even the ti99 or c64 versions. This is horrific especially given the cost of the pc platform at that time.
Why do dullards who know nothing about the era so smug as to think they should make declarations about the era? Well… dullards is the operative word.
@@datacipher Well maybe I feel that way because I was around before these kind of graphics were even a thought. I guess you would've had to have been there to understand my comment. When your first years of TV video games involved a Pong system you played with your brother on a console TV while sitting on bright and dark green shag carpet...then you were amazed by what was soon to come. So yes...as a matter of fact...when you were one of the fortunate ones with graphics beyond sticks and squares...you were running around and talking exactly the way I said.
@@gregc.9035 rofl. Nice try bud. Like none of us were around then lol. If you were there playing pong on your shag carpet, you certainly were exposed to the Atari 2600, astrocade, Intellivision, Atari 8 bit, colecovision, Atari 5200, blah blah blah... let alone arcade games. This didn't impress anyone by 83, let alone by the later 80's when most people were playing cga games. You're trying to tell us that YOU went straight from Telstar pong to a cga pc? ROFL. Let's pretend you did - that's not what anyone else did, so don't claim we were all amazed, just because you ALLEGEDLY lived in a cave with pong until you got an IBM PC. LOL....just typing it makes me laugh. And if you then went around telling everyone about your amazing graphics as you claim, did they laugh in your face? You didn't even have this experience obviously. You made up a fantasy to write this statement which you thought everyone would agree with. They don't - because we were there. Look at the other comments. Don't be a buffoon. 1977 apple 2 hardware played this game with nearly identical graphics and sound with far more speed. 1979 Atari 8 bit hardware donkey kong CRUSHES this. Not going to argue with it - if you're not man enough to just admit you made a silly statement, so be it.
@2FunnyVersionIV
He should try 614.4 cycles next time.
The music is creepypasta
this so bad that it’s funny
Its Lagging!!!!!!
Play it on 2 speed
Watch at 2x speed
And The pink devil is wearing a hat
damn lag.,....This game was great,,,I believe I had it on the Apple 2c maybe on a big floppy disk...Good stuff
That looks okay😐😐😐
when you get donkey kong for free in 1981:
Oh oh. I saw version which was fastened.
How high can you get?
DarthAdipose Oh jeez. I’m sooo high right now
Not sure why he farts at the end of the level...
This... this is just horrifying...
Demon Kong
Grand Dad vs Pinky/Lotso crossbreed?
WHY IS DK PINK?!
oh, no, the rest of the game looks fine but dk, dear god, HE'S PINK!
Everyone: We Still Like It
Me: This Game Stinks
Everyone Else: D :
マリオの動きが ゲームウオッチ(≧▽≦)
This is probably the worst version of donkey Kong
He looks like a pink Sullivan
how did anyone tolerate this crap?
xj0462 It was all we had :(
mrtroy how did you guys live with such bad ports?
i tolerate it
Isela Silva well, you did.. the question is. do you stil tolerate it?
yep
PINK!
shit. inhad this on a 5’inch floppy
This version is the worst version. Donkey Kong looks like a werewolf. Maybe IBM wasn’t the best.
Creepy.
DOSkey kong
The developer was tone deaf
This is slow
🦍🍩
Demon Kong