Hey John I know you must be busy but even a few extra short little videos would go a long way to making us feel like your not almost retired from Youtubing. It kind of feels like the end of days for John's Arcade :(
Nice find! My first arcade Donkey Kong experience was this version when I lived in Germany. A German restaurant near my school had an actual Nintendo version, but I was already used to playing this one.
You have inspired me to not only go out and start collecting the games I love but to also start posting my projects on youtube. Hope you are doing well. Always exciting to see what you are working on and your collection.
Omg John This was the version in my childhood arcade and in all the local arcades I new of in and around my home town in New Zealand. I found it weird when I seen donkey Kong on NES and believed it was inferior to crazy kong it's so good to see it again . Thank you for the video.
I absolutely love Crazy Kong. The Pizza place in the small mall on Long Island had one in one of those generic woodgrain bootleg cabinets that had a stencil type marquee. The arcade in that same mall had the real-deal but I always gravitated to CC instead. The awful sounds, the f'd up levels, and glitchy graphics were way too fun! I gotta say...I am jealous of that cab and would have traded a Pac Caberet in a second for one too! Nice find. I also remember a version where the levels were green instead of orange.
I'm super psyched for you, I know you've mentioned wanting a Crazy Kong a few times, It sure is a funky take on the classic game. Another great video *and* I got an email read in a video for the second time so thanks for that too! Keep up the awesome stuff!
Hey John, great find. I am very surprised that someone actually owned one previously as it was a European game. And wasn't made for the US. I happen to also own a 'Crazy Kong' machine at home myself. I am currently 14 years old and since then, I have dedicated my life on Crazy Kong and all arcade games. I love it. I also started a little arcade machine collection of my own. Ever since my dad introduced me to Crazy Kong when I was 3, I was hooked. I would use all my spare change. After a week or so, the machine would be full. Ever since playing Crazy Kong, I have learned a lot of things. In Crazy Kong, Mario can wait underneath a ladder and a barrel won't hit him. Unlike Donkey Kong. On the forth level (Second level on Donkey Kong), Mario can walk through Donkey Kong. Those are just a few tricks/tips I know. I know many more, but that's for you guys to figure out. John, I hope you enjoy. It is a great game. Please look after it and keep it. You won't find that many. Quick question, do you happen to know a game called Pengo?? That's one of the games I own in my collection. I believe it was licensed by Sega. I you find one, can you add it to your collection?? Also, do you know anyone who has a Mole Hunter machine?? It is a extremely rare Data East game released in 1980. Very few machines were made. My dad played a Mole hunter machine in the local shop when he was young?? If you know anyone who has it, can you tell them to dump the rom so I can play it on Mame. Thank you, and once again, enjoy.
I finnised the video you read about the trick. Thank you for all the information. Amazing video. hope youer well. I saw the video where you mentioned passing out. God Bless.
I remember playing this a few times at a grocery store back in the day. The one I played was a Falcon...”Crazy Kong Part II”. I liked it because I could get farther than I could on Donkey Kong. Oh, and I love the sound of the springs and the sound of his jump... :)
The funny thing, John is, as you call this game "a weird version of Donkey Kong", that when I saw the first time Donkey Kong after having played Crazy Kong living in Europe, I thought that YOURS was "a weird version of Crazy Kong"! haha! BTW I think that the original board was a Falcon board. I still do remember the Name "Falcon" popping up on the screen back in time (1981) when playing the original Crazy Kong as a child.
A second-hand store about half an hour from my house had a Congorilla dedicated cabinet a few years ago. I was looking for a cabinet to gut and make a MAME cabinet out of, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it because the thing looked pristine, and they only wanted $200 for it.
This channel is awesome. I can't stop watching it. I think I'm at the point where I would like to get a cabinet. Are there any good video on getting started in buying (what to look for) and restoring a cabinet? What's the cheapest most common cabinet out there?
Love your videos, thanks for all you do for the community. Wondering if you know about the MiSTer project. It runs on a DE-10 Nano FPGA and it has a crazy kong core. This could easily be hooked up to your cabinet if you want another option. If your ever in NJ you should look me up as I have a similar arcade setup to you. Cya
When Jump man jumps, the sound is the same as Condor ‘unloading’ on Crazy Climber. The bouncing springs sounds are a sample of the Japanese CC falling - not the ‘oh noooo’ but an ‘ahhh’. I’d love to know if the manufacturer is Nichibutsu on that board of yours?
I've noticed the change in cars once again; compared to the first-gen Explorer you first had, the new Explorer is kind of a pain to load tall items (like arcade cabinets, for example) in the back of because the rear hatch area swoops way down, so you grabbed a last-gen Grand Cherokee. Good choice, they use their interior space well.
My OCD is totally flipping out because of the broken plastic popcorn dispenser! Lots of people wondering where youre at dude. Hope you are well. Love the vids and the awesome basement! the Dragons Lair/Space Ace stuff made me pine for the 80s!
I live in New Zealand. Growing up in the 80's I never saw Donkey Kong, only Crazy Kong! I think NZ had a lot of bootleg games. Thanks for the great review!
I'm digging this video because I picked up a Congorilla cabinet with a Crazy Kong board recently. Love your videos pal, they've helped me a ton! Edit: Also Crazy Kong was THE Donkey Kong for Europe. Nintendo hired Falcon to make Crazy Kong since they couldn't meet the demand for Donkey Kong in the EU. The EU arcades had Crazy Kongs and they thought Donkey Kong was the knockoff!
Ah this one was here in Indonesia! They were everywhere! I remember mimicking its die song whenever I was pretending to fell down from the chair! I was eight FYI.
Hey John love your Channel been watching for a long time now one of my favorite games playing as a kid in Brooklyn New York was crazy Kong if I'm not mistaken the first time I played it was in Coney Island in the arcades years later they closed it down just wanted to say that looks awesome in your collection and keep the videos coming buddy
You got a Crazy Kong! That's awesome! It's SOOO PINK! I went after watching this video to MAME and searched Crazy Kong, there's quite a few different bootlegs using different hardware, Galaxian, Moon cresta, which I'm sure you browsed MAME yourself. But ended up playing a few of them myself. As far as the Poker Machine monitor for Joe, if he chooses there are LCD alternatives out there like an Ceronix LCD kit. Hope that helps Joe.
I checked MAME and you definitely have the ORCA roms running in your ORCA board. I noticed the crazy climber sounds immediately as I love that game. Would be curious to see which Falcon version you have. According to MAME if you have the original romset, there will be no copyright and the colors will be very different than your ORCA board. If you have Part 2, it will include copyright info, and will say Part 2 as you mentioned in the video, plus the colors will be much closer to the ORCA version. Have fun with your new game.
Finally! I always wondered what the hell was going on when I watched your donkey kong games, the levels were always completely out of order, compared to the way I remembered it as a kid (in the UK) Finally an explanation :D
It's weird. Sounds like jumpman (or this "evil version" of jumpman) is doing karate on the barrels when he jumps and is wearing suction cup sandals on the metal beams.
Tiny correction Falcon (Idk about Orca's or Zaccaria's licensed versions) actually started selling the Crazy Kong cabinets in the US, therefore they violated their licensing collaboration with Nintendo and it was quote on quote "turned" into a bootleg, I actually have a Crazy Kong at my grandparents (no cabinet art, but the marquee is black with red letters and white insides, Mario's jumping noise is also coincidentally from Crazy Climber! Elevators from the 75m area also go very slow and at times there aren't any elevators compared to the official game
Pretty sure you had a Orca board on your pcb self in the one video you talked about had stepped on the monitor pots controller for a chassis you had pulled from a CRT. It was when you were going through a selves of pcbs with tim i think, and you also came across a Qbert board you had borrowed of his for testing and still had.
I miss you John! A funny thing happened today. I heard the song "Sophomore Makeout" by Silent Partner on a random video. I personally associate that song with you and your channel so much. To me it screams John's Arcade and up to this day, I've always thought it was a song made by The Kill Screens. Now I'll get a short circuit in my brain every time I think of this. I took it too literally when you once said that all music in your videos is made by you. Hope you'll be back soon bud!
I grew up with this game for years. Every summer, this was one of 2-4 games at the beach club my best friend owned. I wish I was old enough to buy it when they sold it. ARGH
Our local convenience store had Crazy Kong when I was a kid. It was the first "Donkey Kong" I ever played and we played the hell out of it. Great fun. Way more interesting than Pac Man. The one I remember showed Kong in a cage, I think it was Crazy Kong 2. That might be what your falcon board has. It had better sounds and colors than the version you have here. There was no top edge glitch and the extra lives were in color at the very top. On the Pie Factory level, if you shake left and right with the hammer just right, he will drop it and you can pick it up later. A bunch of us watched an older teen get to the kill screen once. We didn't know it was called a "kill screen" back then. I remember thinking it was kind of a lame rip off thing to do. To crash the game on a good player. It would be years before I seen a real Donkey Kong machine and I thought DK looked boring compared to CK. I didn't realize the Pie Factory came later on in the real DK. I was like "this sucks, it doesn't even have the pie level!"
John, re the shaker motor in the Ghostbusters pinball question: according to your video, your motor did not come with the bolts and you had to run to the store to get some and the t-nuts were already installed. Could it be a voltage issue that the guy from Australia might’ve had that maybe made the motor louder?
Although commonly believed to be a bootleg version, the game was officially licensed for operation in Japan when Nintendo couldn't keep up with demand at home (even though Donkey Kong was still released in Japan), and is based on different hardware. The game retains all of the game play elements of Donkey Kong, but has all of the graphics redrawn and re-colorized. Crazy Kong is also known as Congorilla, Crazy Kong Part II, Donkey King, and Monkey Donkey. There are two versions of the original: Crazy Kong and Crazy Kong Part II. The differences between them are in minor cinematic artifacts and bugs, color palette choices and minor game play differences. Crazy Kong Part I shows no copyright or company name on the title screen. Crazy Kong (parts I and II) runs on modified Crazy Climber hardware. In addition there are other versions of the game that run on Scramble, Jeutel, Orca, and Alca hardware. The official versions of game came in two different stand up cabinets that featured a large and angry, rather than comic, ape embedded in the artwork. The cabinets were created by Zaccaria. Nintendo allowed these versions to be created because they could NO LONGER KEEP UP DEMAND with their hardware etc. Crazy Kong (クレイジーコング) is a clone of Nintendo's Donkey Kong published by Falcon in 1981. Despite the fact it's a clone and its notorious presentation, it is actually an official licensed clone intended for Japan only. However, it has been distributed elsewhere in other parts of the world without a license from Nintendo.
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Hey John I know you must be busy but even a few extra short little videos would go a long way to making us feel like your not almost retired from Youtubing. It kind of feels like the end of days for John's Arcade :(
John!! We ALL Miss You!!!
On the next John's Arcade - John picks up a replacement Pac-Man.
Did John's Arcade shut down? Like the real arcades did long ago?
Joy! A monday John's Arcade video. And it's in the garage again.
I've missed these.
Missing John's arcade videos
Nice find! My first arcade Donkey Kong experience was this version when I lived in Germany. A German restaurant near my school had an actual Nintendo version, but I was already used to playing this one.
You have inspired me to not only go out and start collecting the games I love but to also start posting my projects on youtube. Hope you are doing well. Always exciting to see what you are working on and your collection.
Dam!! You took me back to my childhood. I remember going to the grocery store where they had this game. Thank you.
It’s great to see you excited about an arcade machine again. I was beginning to think MKII had performed a fatality on the channel.
Wow, those sound effects brought me back! I remember playing Congorilla at the local pizza joint. Cool back round story on this game.
Yay!! I needed my John's Arcade fix today.
I love the regular uploads, keep it up John.
Omg John
This was the version in my childhood arcade and in all the local arcades I new of in and around my home town in New Zealand. I found it weird when I seen donkey Kong on NES and believed it was inferior to crazy kong it's so good to see it again . Thank you for the video.
I absolutely love Crazy Kong. The Pizza place in the small mall on Long Island had one in one of those generic woodgrain bootleg cabinets that had a stencil type marquee. The arcade in that same mall had the real-deal but I always gravitated to CC instead. The awful sounds, the f'd up levels, and glitchy graphics were way too fun! I gotta say...I am jealous of that cab and would have traded a Pac Caberet in a second for one too! Nice find. I also remember a version where the levels were green instead of orange.
I'm super psyched for you, I know you've mentioned wanting a Crazy Kong a few times, It sure is a funky take on the classic game. Another great video *and* I got an email read in a video for the second time so thanks for that too! Keep up the awesome stuff!
Hi John, I grew up playing this in the 80's in NJ. I play it every once in a while in Mame. I like it. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you found a Crazy Kong. Seems like you’ve been after that for awhile. Have fun with it!!! Thanks for the vid.
I played this version of Kong in an arcade as a kid, and hated it. Thanks for a trip down memory lane. :D
Awesome surprise. Congrats! Laundry mat next to our grocery store had one.
Hey John, great find. I am very surprised that someone actually owned one previously as it was a European game. And wasn't made for the US. I happen to also own a 'Crazy Kong' machine at home myself. I am currently 14 years old and since then, I have dedicated my life on Crazy Kong and all arcade games. I love it. I also started a little arcade machine collection of my own. Ever since my dad introduced me to Crazy Kong when I was 3, I was hooked. I would use all my spare change. After a week or so, the machine would be full. Ever since playing Crazy Kong, I have learned a lot of things. In Crazy Kong, Mario can wait underneath a ladder and a barrel won't hit him. Unlike Donkey Kong. On the forth level (Second level on Donkey Kong), Mario can walk through Donkey Kong. Those are just a few tricks/tips I know. I know many more, but that's for you guys to figure out. John, I hope you enjoy. It is a great game. Please look after it and keep it. You won't find that many. Quick question, do you happen to know a game called Pengo?? That's one of the games I own in my collection. I believe it was licensed by Sega. I you find one, can you add it to your collection?? Also, do you know anyone who has a Mole Hunter machine?? It is a extremely rare Data East game released in 1980. Very few machines were made. My dad played a Mole hunter machine in the local shop when he was young?? If you know anyone who has it, can you tell them to dump the rom so I can play it on Mame. Thank you, and once again, enjoy.
I've got one too! It's definitely a conversation piece and the family loves it.
Yeah, I guessed pretty quickly what the game was. When you said you've been looking for one forever, I knew. Great find John!!
I finnised the video you read about the trick. Thank you for all the information. Amazing video. hope youer well. I saw the video where you mentioned passing out. God Bless.
You got it! Great job (and thanks for the shout out). Glad you were able to make it work.
the jumping sound on Crazy Kong sounds like Mario is screaming in pain haha
I remember playing this a few times at a grocery store back in the day. The one I played was a Falcon...”Crazy Kong Part II”. I liked it because I could get farther than I could on Donkey Kong. Oh, and I love the sound of the springs and the sound of his jump... :)
7:40 joystick discussion... love John's dedication to the little important details. :)
Great to see you've finally found a Crazy Kong at last. It looks in lovely condition considering!
Your pac-man was/is beautiful, you did a great job restoring it. So, the rarity of Crazy Kong probably makes sense. Seems like a fair trade.
It's almost March.... RIP John's Arcade 😥😥😥
I'm alive
John please, pretty please,do a brief 5-10 minute update video this weekend so everyone can relax 👑🎈🌭💥 🍲🍥🥢🍤
@@Johnsarcade woohoo!
As soon as you said it was a crazy bootleg I knew it would be Crazy Kong. We all know you can’t resist a Donkey Kong game! ;)
YES!!!! I played this all of the time, back in the day! Man, what a find, congrats John!
How cool.thanks for the history lesson john! Fan from Australia
The funny thing, John is, as you call this game "a weird version of Donkey Kong", that when I saw the first time Donkey Kong after having played Crazy Kong living in Europe, I thought that YOURS was "a weird version of Crazy Kong"! haha! BTW I think that the original board was a Falcon board. I still do remember the Name "Falcon" popping up on the screen back in time (1981) when playing the original Crazy Kong as a child.
A second-hand store about half an hour from my house had a Congorilla dedicated cabinet a few years ago. I was looking for a cabinet to gut and make a MAME cabinet out of, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it because the thing looked pristine, and they only wanted $200 for it.
Seeing arcade machines again makes me happy and sad at the same time. You can play them but never have that time back as a kid.
The Crazy Kong sounds sound metallic on the first screen during the Donkey Kong 'stomp'
This channel is awesome. I can't stop watching it. I think I'm at the point where I would like to get a cabinet. Are there any good video on getting started in buying (what to look for) and restoring a cabinet? What's the cheapest most common cabinet out there?
Love your videos, thanks for all you do for the community. Wondering if you know about the MiSTer project. It runs on a DE-10 Nano FPGA and it has a crazy kong core. This could easily be hooked up to your cabinet if you want another option. If your ever in NJ you should look me up as I have a similar arcade setup to you. Cya
Looking forward to the year end review :) Hope you had a nice Christmas and all the best for the new year!
Soon
@@Johnsarcade yay
This is awesome! Thanks for making these videos!!!!
When Jump man jumps, the sound is the same as Condor ‘unloading’ on Crazy Climber. The bouncing springs sounds are a sample of the Japanese CC falling - not the ‘oh noooo’ but an ‘ahhh’.
I’d love to know if the manufacturer is Nichibutsu on that board of yours?
Feel the same way about arcade 1up cabs.made too cheaply,much too short.great video,crazy kong is fun.keep the videos coming!
I've noticed the change in cars once again; compared to the first-gen Explorer you first had, the new Explorer is kind of a pain to load tall items (like arcade cabinets, for example) in the back of because the rear hatch area swoops way down, so you grabbed a last-gen Grand Cherokee. Good choice, they use their interior space well.
John where are all the videos at?
Where'd you go John?! You should do a video of you and a couple friends just gaming in the basement!
My OCD is totally flipping out because of the broken plastic popcorn dispenser!
Lots of people wondering where youre at dude. Hope you are well. Love the vids and the awesome basement! the Dragons Lair/Space Ace stuff made me pine for the 80s!
I live in New Zealand. Growing up in the 80's I never saw Donkey Kong, only Crazy Kong! I think NZ had a lot of bootleg games. Thanks for the great review!
Oh yeah! I played a cab of this at Fun Spot once. As a Donkey Kong player I found it very amusing. ^_^
Cheers for the upload John! Looking forward to watching tonight!
Crazy Kong...its like “Donkey Kong in bizarro world” cool game!
Miss ya John
love the sound Mario makes when he jumps
I'm digging this video because I picked up a Congorilla cabinet with a Crazy Kong board recently. Love your videos pal, they've helped me a ton!
Edit: Also Crazy Kong was THE Donkey Kong for Europe. Nintendo hired Falcon to make Crazy Kong since they couldn't meet the demand for Donkey Kong in the EU. The EU arcades had Crazy Kongs and they thought Donkey Kong was the knockoff!
There's a cocktail cabinet for sale up here in Canada and it's in a crazy climber cab.
I know you’re busy with your podcasts etc, but I’ve really missed your videos John! Really happy to see this one in my notifications this morning 👍
Nice one John! Gonna play Crazy Kong next time I go to Arcade Club in Bury UK. 😎👍👍👍👍
Love the "patina" of the sideart.
I think Crazy Kong made it as far as South Carolina because I seem to remember playing this at a pizza joint down in Myrtle Beach in the mid 80s
Awesome! Play the hell out of this game as a kid! Great backstory!
Nice cab did you want one of these after visiting the uk :)
Ah this one was here in Indonesia! They were everywhere! I remember mimicking its die song whenever I was pretending to fell down from the chair! I was eight FYI.
Hey John good to see you back! I picked up a Data East Laser War, super excited!
As soon as I saw the pink, I knew what it was. I’d love to get a Crazy Kong. It’s the only original Kong I don’t have. Nice score!
I believe the board you were playing in your garage was Crazy Kong II. The girders in the original Crazy Kong are green.
Crazy Kong is a great game! Play it a lot up at FunSpot... great find John...👍👍👍
Hey John love your Channel been watching for a long time now one of my favorite games playing as a kid in Brooklyn New York was crazy Kong if I'm not mistaken the first time I played it was in Coney Island in the arcades years later they closed it down just wanted to say that looks awesome in your collection and keep the videos coming buddy
You got a Crazy Kong! That's awesome! It's SOOO PINK! I went after watching this video to MAME and searched Crazy Kong, there's quite a few different bootlegs using different hardware, Galaxian, Moon cresta, which I'm sure you browsed MAME yourself. But ended up playing a few of them myself. As far as the Poker Machine monitor for Joe, if he chooses there are LCD alternatives out there like an Ceronix LCD kit. Hope that helps Joe.
I checked MAME and you definitely have the ORCA roms running in your ORCA board. I noticed the crazy climber sounds immediately as I love that game. Would be curious to see which Falcon version you have. According to MAME if you have the original romset, there will be no copyright and the colors will be very different than your ORCA board. If you have Part 2, it will include copyright info, and will say Part 2 as you mentioned in the video, plus the colors will be much closer to the ORCA version. Have fun with your new game.
The sound sample of Mario walking is the exact same sample of crazy climber climbing
It’s funny because I just watched your Crazy Kong video yesterday.
Finally! I always wondered what the hell was going on when I watched your donkey kong games, the levels were always completely out of order, compared to the way I remembered it as a kid (in the UK) Finally an explanation :D
Can't wait till the next video hope all is going well with your new basement set up and I love the podcast please keep it up
I'm happy for you man! But I dug that cabaret you traded!
We are coming to Orlando later this year, can you recommend any arcades to visit while we are here?
The Crazy Climber sounds crack me up
It's weird. Sounds like jumpman (or this "evil version" of jumpman) is doing karate on the barrels when he jumps and is wearing suction cup sandals on the metal beams.
It's interesting. I'd swear I played a BBC Micro clone of Donkey Kong that used those sounds.
Tiny correction
Falcon (Idk about Orca's or Zaccaria's licensed versions) actually started selling the Crazy Kong cabinets in the US, therefore they violated their licensing collaboration with Nintendo and it was quote on quote "turned" into a bootleg, I actually have a Crazy Kong at my grandparents (no cabinet art, but the marquee is black with red letters and white insides, Mario's jumping noise is also coincidentally from Crazy Climber! Elevators from the 75m area also go very slow and at times there aren't any elevators compared to the official game
I guess John's Arcade is over.... RIP.
RIP
@@Johnsarcade He lives! But the channel doesn't apparently :(
In Germany they had these games as well, but in Holland we had normal Nintendo donkey kong cabs.
Pretty sure you had a Orca board on your pcb self in the one video you talked about had stepped on the monitor pots controller for a chassis you had pulled from a CRT. It was when you were going through a selves of pcbs with tim i think, and you also came across a Qbert board you had borrowed of his for testing and still had.
I have a Crazy Kong in the UK with various PCBs, the Falcon Crazy Kong Pt 2 is the best version for sure.
I miss you John! A funny thing happened today. I heard the song "Sophomore Makeout" by Silent Partner on a random video. I personally associate that song with you and your channel so much. To me it screams John's Arcade and up to this day, I've always thought it was a song made by The Kill Screens. Now I'll get a short circuit in my brain every time I think of this. I took it too literally when you once said that all music in your videos is made by you. Hope you'll be back soon bud!
I had Crazy Kong in my garage for a couple of years. Didn’t even know it was rare. Should have kept it. :(
I grew up with this game for years. Every summer, this was one of 2-4 games at the beach club my best friend owned. I wish I was old enough to buy it when they sold it. ARGH
No year end tour of the arcade for 2018?
The arcade 1 ups can be modified to put a raspberry pi in them and is suggested to install better buttons.
yay finally, you got that crazy kong.... how many years...
RIP John...No more brofest or hanger(which it been over 1 year)sense the last update....Sad
Hope you are keeping well John. Miss you videos but look forward to your comeback when your ready. Good luck from Dublin.
Our local convenience store had Crazy Kong when I was a kid. It was the first "Donkey Kong" I ever played and we played the hell out of it. Great fun. Way more interesting than Pac Man. The one I remember showed Kong in a cage, I think it was Crazy Kong 2. That might be what your falcon board has. It had better sounds and colors than the version you have here. There was no top edge glitch and the extra lives were in color at the very top. On the Pie Factory level, if you shake left and right with the hammer just right, he will drop it and you can pick it up later. A bunch of us watched an older teen get to the kill screen once. We didn't know it was called a "kill screen" back then. I remember thinking it was kind of a lame rip off thing to do. To crash the game on a good player. It would be years before I seen a real Donkey Kong machine and I thought DK looked boring compared to CK. I didn't realize the Pie Factory came later on in the real DK. I was like "this sucks, it doesn't even have the pie level!"
dat connector been funky for a while now
Man i had a crazy kong in a all black cabinet and i sold it for 150 bucks a couple years ago...now i wish i would have held onto it..
I LOVE IT
the hi-yah sound is in crazy climer when you get to the monkey he trys to hit you and says the same hi-yah sound form crazy kong
John, did you get rid of Mad Planets (missing 37:08) because the game pertrays other planets and that they are round and not flat?
John, re the shaker motor in the Ghostbusters pinball question: according to your video, your motor did not come with the bolts and you had to run to the store to get some and the t-nuts were already installed.
Could it be a voltage issue that the guy from Australia might’ve had that maybe made the motor louder?
When he jumps he sounds like the hero from "Kung-fu Master"
Played this all the time at Busy Kitchen after school in NJ
Although commonly believed to be a bootleg version, the game was officially licensed for operation in Japan when Nintendo couldn't keep up with demand at home (even though Donkey Kong was still released in Japan), and is based on different hardware. The game retains all of the game play elements of Donkey Kong, but has all of the graphics redrawn and re-colorized. Crazy Kong is also known as Congorilla, Crazy Kong Part II, Donkey King, and Monkey Donkey.
There are two versions of the original: Crazy Kong and Crazy Kong Part II. The differences between them are in minor cinematic artifacts and bugs, color palette choices and minor game play differences. Crazy Kong Part I shows no copyright or company name on the title screen. Crazy Kong (parts I and II) runs on modified Crazy Climber hardware. In addition there are other versions of the game that run on Scramble, Jeutel, Orca, and Alca hardware. The official versions of game came in two different stand up cabinets that featured a large and angry, rather than comic, ape embedded in the artwork. The cabinets were created by Zaccaria. Nintendo allowed these versions to be created because they could NO LONGER KEEP UP DEMAND with their hardware etc. Crazy Kong (クレイジーコング) is a clone of Nintendo's Donkey Kong published by Falcon in 1981. Despite the fact it's a clone and its notorious presentation, it is actually an official licensed clone intended for Japan only. However, it has been distributed elsewhere in other parts of the world without a license from Nintendo.
I somehow knew it was gonna be Crazy Kong. XD