I read a book about this, and from what I remember, the reason Miyamoto was put in charge of the project was basically that Nintendo of America needed a new game by last week and Nintendo of Japan had no one else to spare. They were basically like "well, everyone who actually has experience is super busy, and we can't take them off of their projects. But we have an intern who has some good ideas, and hey, better than nothing, right?"
I was working the register at a store near where I live and a few times I thought I had just sold some stuff to Reggie, but I didn't think it could be true. One day I saw him come in and as he was walking up to the register I finally worked up enough courage to ask him: "are you... Reggie?" And he smiled and responded: "that's me." It was surreal.
The range that Seth Rogen managed to bring to this arcade with just a few beeps is just amazing. I can remember as a kid in the arcade being taunted by Donkey Kong's famous laugh "ehuhehehehheh" as he took the princess and jumped up 20 stories. I still hear it in my nightmares
@@Andrew_182 No Seth Rogen was the body double aside from the laughs. They wanted Seth to do everything but he just laughed and wouldn't do the other lines.
I'm pretty sure the cutscene where Donkey Kong smokes weed is directly responsible for the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screens that would later be everywhere in arcade games
DK is a marvel of programming. So many little details that make it look nice, for example how the barrels falls, how they bounce when they land falling from a girder. And then the extremely challenging, frustrating and yet satisfying gameplay.
Calling it a "marvel of programming" is funny because it's like the most basic ass beginner game every NES emulator developer tries to get running first before implementing any of the more complex hardware mechanics
fun fact: Shigeru Miyamoto was presented with the opportunity to put a patent on jumping in video games since Donkey Kong was the first game which featured the player being able to jump. Miyamoto thankfully decided against patenting it because he knew that would be horrible for other video game developers.
Dunkey is one of the few folks I could actually see doing this. Writing a movie called "Dunkey's History of Video Games" would be excellent. Make it a 60 minute documentary and sell it to Netflix.
Something tells me that this year's Donkey Kong December is going to consist of documentary-esque videos on the history of Donkey Kong and I am here for it.
The real story is that Miyamoto wanted to convey that the monkey is a stubborn jerk, and he saw that one English idiom for this is to say someone is "behaving like an ass." As in, a stubborn ass. But he didn't realize that the idiom doesn't really translate if you use a different, more alliterative word for an ass, a donkey. Hence, Donkey Kong -- it's supposed to mean something like "this monkey is a stubborn jerk," but it doesn't quite make sense, since it's a Japanese guy trying to do wordplay in a language he's not fluent in.
Check out jeremy parish's nes works or famicom works series, he does very in depth retrospectives on each game released for the nes with a focus on their history/creation and impact. Also has series for game boy, snes, virtual boy and a couple other shorter ones
For the respect towards Gunpei Yokoi (Father of Samus Aran & Wario) and love for the massively underrated Donkey Kong 94’ (the first instance of 3D Mario’s jump mechanics) this is sincerely my favorite video of yours ever.
@@mkultra2456 34 years of honestly. Not that it concerns you young'n. Don't make me come over there and put you in the corner of disturbing mental flashes.
@@mkultra2456 sure but you and I are still talking aren't we? Is stuff like this really important to you? I've just been getting a little chuckle over here. Cheers kid
Very well done. Gets straight to the point, tells an important story without once throat clearing or needing to remind us of how "important" it really is. Lots of confidence in Dunkey's style here. lol
There's one more fun thing to this story. After the game became a success the other programmers wanted some of that sweet money. But Miyamoto grabbed it all, ran up to the roof, yelled "I am the Donkey CEO now!" and summoned fireballs that burned down the building.
To me, the franchise’s true success wasn’t until the release of SUPER DONKEY KONG SHAKE, subsequently followed by the Dunkey video of the same title, dubbed the greatest RUclips video of all time.
Hey Dunk, great stuff as always. In my humble opinion, you should make more vid like this, but longer, even if they call for a new channel to house them. You really know how to hold attention and tell a story man.. Great job!
Thank you Dunkey. That game was revolutionary and you didn’t even talk about it. Handstands, triple jumps, gigantic boss. Shivers up and down my spine.
Игры
Another Donkey Kong December and another video with no dislikes. Dunkey does it again!
That's classic Dunkey haha!!😃😃
One dislike
@@leichenbuch when you lie:
@@leichenbuch liar
@@leichenbuch you are lying!!!!
It's seriously hard to tell what are fake facts, jokes or real stories. Dunkey does amazing with these retrospectives
Donkey Kong is indeed a donkey. That is an actual fact.
@@delgat000 That is a fake narrative parroted by the media. Donkey Kong is OBVIOUSLY a salamander!!
None of these were real you fool
I'm watching without audio, so everything I just have to believe
fawdable moment
I read a book about this, and from what I remember, the reason Miyamoto was put in charge of the project was basically that Nintendo of America needed a new game by last week and Nintendo of Japan had no one else to spare. They were basically like "well, everyone who actually has experience is super busy, and we can't take them off of their projects. But we have an intern who has some good ideas, and hey, better than nothing, right?"
And it was glorious.
Video game creators?
Some real butterfly effect shit.
@@ssid07games16 best one and most complete is "how nintendo conquered america"
@@duckqueak If Miyamoto stayed home sick that day the world would’ve ended.
I fell into a trance and forgot the video length. I thought he was about to give the entire history in an hour long retrospective.
I’d watch it if he did
@@roddydykes7053 @TinyZ
The Donkey Kong video he just uploaded made the dream real.
this 5 minute video feels like an immersive and gripping 2 hour documentary. how does Dunkey do it
I dont inow but its amaamzib
Dunkey Kung
You have a terrible sense of time. This video is 5 minutes long not 2 hours. Did you watch this 24 times by mistake
are you drunk
memetic triggers embedded in the video
oh dunkey you funny [REDACTED] you
Finally it's the most wonderful time of the year.
Donkey Kong December
Ok guys bring yours walnuts🎵Deasnuts🎵Pineapple Smells🎶
Grapes🎵Melons🎵Oranges and Coconut Shells Aww Yeah🎵🎶 It's Dunkey Kong December 🎶
Cranky did start all the Donkey Kong Craze,man.
I was working the register at a store near where I live and a few times I thought I had just sold some stuff to Reggie, but I didn't think it could be true. One day I saw him come in and as he was walking up to the register I finally worked up enough courage to ask him: "are you... Reggie?" And he smiled and responded: "that's me." It was surreal.
I met him one time when he was speaking at Cornell since I live near by. He's just as nice in person as in Nintendo directs!
dunkey ending the video with "more donkey" really shows how he's passionate about the fact that he grew up in new donk city
I was so immersed in this that I felt genuinely upset when it ended
Every time I watch his videos
I felt like I got Rick Rolled but it was Donkey Kong.
@@MrWolfstar8 Barrel Rolled?
@@gettingintrospective 4444444444444444444 rien 444444ri
Speaking of that ending, anyone know whose cover of the Donkey Kong Country intro theme is playing at the end?
The range that Seth Rogen managed to bring to this arcade with just a few beeps is just amazing. I can remember as a kid in the arcade being taunted by Donkey Kong's famous laugh "ehuhehehehheh" as he took the princess and jumped up 20 stories. I still hear it in my nightmares
Don't you mean Joe Rogan?
Victor
He was just the body double.
@@Andrew_182 No Seth Rogen was the body double aside from the laughs. They wanted Seth to do everything but he just laughed and wouldn't do the other lines.
I'm pretty sure the cutscene where Donkey Kong smokes weed is directly responsible for the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screens that would later be everywhere in arcade games
Well if you have any more nightmares about it, just remember how cool Chris Pratt is. You can bid those bad dreams goodbye after that.
DUNKEY YOUR VIDEO IS ON THE YT OFFICAL PLAYLIST
and so is scott the woz, caddicarus and cinemassacre (avgn)!
5:23 Dunkey has never been more adorable. What a goddamn wholesome ass video. He told that story as if he had been growing up at the same time.
"donkikon"
Man thank god he’s still consistently uploading Donkey Kong every single day this month
ha
@@mkultra2456 wtf bro
He had betta goddamn well deliver on DONKEY KONG DECEMBER, DONKEY KONG DECEMBER, DONKEY KONG DECEMBER!
@@LinoHere it is funny that Justin Trudeau is gay
@@Satellaview1889 i don't even know who tf Justin Trudeau is
I never thought I would see the return of Donkey Kong December. Dunkey has really done it again, bravo
Say I won't do it
The way dunkey says "Donkey Kong" at the end is pure bliss.
He should make Jenny Wakeman January.
No joke, Donkey Kong on the Game Boy is an absolute masterpiece.
It really is amazing. But the Donkey Kong sequel for the GBA was so disappointingly bad to me :(
Fuckin called it
But can it beat knack tho?
@@drunyon214 What is this blasphemy? Mario vs Donkey Kong is one of the best video game sequels I've ever played.
@@NyQuilDonut I found the level design so much worse. There was SO much waiting.
Donkey Kong December is back! Dunkey never disappoints!
He won't do it
@@Unowdvalcon82752 he’ll do it everyday!
I will never forgive him. He didn’t post a video of donkey king every day for the month of December
Donkey Kong December was the friends we made along the way
u love men romantically
DK is a marvel of programming. So many little details that make it look nice, for example how the barrels falls, how they bounce when they land falling from a girder. And then the extremely challenging, frustrating and yet satisfying gameplay.
And the detailed animation of Mario or I mean Jump Man when he climbs up the ladder and gets to the next platform.
Calling it a "marvel of programming" is funny because it's like the most basic ass beginner game every NES emulator developer tries to get running first before implementing any of the more complex hardware mechanics
@@jatoxo people treat doom the same, which is also a marvel of programming
@@dopaminecloud people treat running doom as basic? Whenever doom runs on something it's more considered an impressive technical feat than that
@@jatoxo funny, or perfectly makes sense?
i clicked on the game on playlist then I clicked shuffle, I found this.
@4:47 "this game is about life"
Facts. That hit me hard.
fun fact: Shigeru Miyamoto was presented with the opportunity to put a patent on jumping in video games since Donkey Kong was the first game which featured the player being able to jump. Miyamoto thankfully decided against patenting it because he knew that would be horrible for other video game developers.
Just for funsies, could you imagine Sonic 1 if he wasn’t allowed to jump?
nintendo probably still pissed ab it
@@ripditohe’s cool the modern developers really aren’t cool
@@7HatimF16miyamoto is god of videogames
Imagine how many games would be ruined without the ability to jump. Minecraft? Stanley Parable? The entire platformer genre?
I’m craving a 90 minute Dunkey Documentary just discussing video game history. I would pay to see it in a theater.
Dunkey is one of the few folks I could actually see doing this. Writing a movie called "Dunkey's History of Video Games" would be excellent. Make it a 60 minute documentary and sell it to Netflix.
@@pmlong9434 nah I’d rather it be an hour long RUclips video
I’d have to pay to listen to dunkey’s smegg see voice 🥴
A 90 minute documentary starting from the first video game ever made, Mario Bros.
A Dunkumentary, if you will.
Action button pacman review
Shigeru Mimamoto is sort of like a modern day Walt Disney, with his characters
3:13
That boy is in his 50's now.
His own children are probably old enough to drink.
Wow.
Ah yes, the first "Barrel" type game.
A masterclass of innovation.
It is just a shyame we had to wait nearly 30 years for the second Barrel type game: Donkey Kong Barrel Blast
We have to rename it from "Rogue-Like" to "Barrel-Like"
Well because..
That's that
52 dislieks
You can even call it.. the first Barrel Strand game...
The original barrel roll!
Glad to see Donkey Kong December is back again, truly the first monkey type season.
00:42 playing baseball inside??? My mother would have lost her mind haha
I would pay good money for a full length documentary of Dunkey telling the history of video games.
I would pay good money for Dunkey to smack me in the face with a Donkey Kong plushie and whisper "BA-NA-NA" into my ear
Something tells me that this year's Donkey Kong December is going to consist of documentary-esque videos on the history of Donkey Kong and I am here for it.
He will maybe post 3 videos this month.
Praying that the videos will be called donkview
*Donkeymentary
👍👍
this is the greatest story I ever heard. I think I cried tears at how beautiful it was.
we need more retrospective videos like this
Just in time for Donkey Kong December, Dunkey never dissapoints.
I knew he wouldn't let us down
It's a Christmas season tradition.
The rabbit coaster looks legitimately awesome, it reminds me of Mighty Beanz
Yes! I forgot about them. You have saved my life.
I'm more partial to the Home Bowling set tbh.
@@wallyhackenslacker Yes! This thing looks awesome!
MightyBeanz!!
Mighty Beanz, my beloved
Nintendo's "Ultrahand" getting a new lease on life in TotK 😎
You know I never noticed how weird it was for Miyamoto to name a Gorilla DONKEY Kong until Dunkey brought it up.
iirc he thought donkey conveyed stubborness or stupidity so it's supposed to be like dumb Kong. Kong of course is a reference to the famous King Kong
The real story is that Miyamoto wanted to convey that the monkey is a stubborn jerk, and he saw that one English idiom for this is to say someone is "behaving like an ass." As in, a stubborn ass. But he didn't realize that the idiom doesn't really translate if you use a different, more alliterative word for an ass, a donkey. Hence, Donkey Kong -- it's supposed to mean something like "this monkey is a stubborn jerk," but it doesn't quite make sense, since it's a Japanese guy trying to do wordplay in a language he's not fluent in.
"Asshole Kong" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
@@chickensangwich97 "Ass Kong" would have been the greatest video game of all time
@@chickensangwich97 ...are u telling me we could've had Ass Kong??
Would love a series about early Nintendo games like this
this video was truly too short. I could've listened to a full hour of this
I need Jason dressed up sitting by a fire to preempt the story.
Take a look at Strafefox channel. It's a superb youtube channel on the history of video games.
Check out jeremy parish's nes works or famicom works series, he does very in depth retrospectives on each game released for the nes with a focus on their history/creation and impact. Also has series for game boy, snes, virtual boy and a couple other shorter ones
Yes!
Zelda please!
For the respect towards Gunpei Yokoi (Father of Samus Aran & Wario) and love for the massively underrated Donkey Kong 94’ (the first instance of 3D Mario’s jump mechanics) this is sincerely my favorite video of yours ever.
3:21 waiting for dunkey to say first pauline game
What a great kickoff to donkey kong december. Missed the first three days, but looking forward to the next 27 videos!
This was honestly beautifully done.
This was honestly beautifully said.
@@janskacel2772 ditto!
@@mkultra2456 yes.
@@mkultra2456 34 years of honestly. Not that it concerns you young'n. Don't make me come over there and put you in the corner of disturbing mental flashes.
@@mkultra2456 sure but you and I are still talking aren't we? Is stuff like this really important to you? I've just been getting a little chuckle over here. Cheers kid
Very well done. Gets straight to the point, tells an important story without once throat clearing or needing to remind us of how "important" it really is. Lots of confidence in Dunkey's style here. lol
Love how you add music from Shenmue at 4:19 haha
It’s nice that Dunkey talks about how his ancestors came to be every once and a awhile.
its really beautiful to see how in touch and proud someone can be with their culture and ancestry. i have tears in my eyes.
@@meatwad8016 what a heartfelt comment from someone named meat wad
This is truly one of the Donkey Kong videos Dunkey has uploaded.
It's actually the first Kong-type video ever.
First “Donkey Kong Begins” type video
I like how he said love tester in a southern accent.
There's one more fun thing to this story.
After the game became a success the other programmers wanted some of that sweet money. But Miyamoto grabbed it all, ran up to the roof, yelled "I am the Donkey CEO now!" and summoned fireballs that burned down the building.
It's true, I was the roof
To me, the franchise’s true success wasn’t until the release of SUPER DONKEY KONG SHAKE, subsequently followed by the Dunkey video of the same title, dubbed the greatest RUclips video of all time.
no
Donkey Kong December is off to a massive start
"The stupid ass heel flip" casually pulls up an interview with nardwar and justin trudeau playing that shit, that’s far fetched
I love your stuff man, I always will.
Thank you for sharing your incredibly unique sense of humor with the world for all these years.
finally, donkey kong december can begin
1:52 Nintendo Miamoto
Dunkey, this is some of your best work yet. Dam, you are a genious.
Hey Dunk, great stuff as always. In my humble opinion, you should make more vid like this, but longer, even if they call for a new channel to house them. You really know how to hold attention and tell a story man.. Great job!
I appreciate how Dunkey balances a nice video game history lesson with funny comments.
Truly a dunkeykong moment
Lankydunk
Chunkydunk
Funky dunk
loving these informational donkey videos
I've waited 41 years for this review of the original donkey kong. Now i can finally buy this game. So thanks dunkey
Now December has started for real with the classic Donkey Kong December content; always a crowd pleaser Dunkey we love to see it
I come back to this video around this time every year, and every year it feels so fresh and new.
*Dunkumentary-* A video with wonderful narrative and brilliant editing that you also can't distinguish truth from fiction.
Good thing Dunkey hasn’t forgot about donkey Kong December Wednesday
Donkey Kong December never ceases to amaze me.
that was strangely immersive, i need a 5-part dunko mini series on obscure video game history. 5/5 mastapeeeeeeece
The map, the graphics, the new weapons, the bikes, the battle pass!! I'm loving this season so far!
videogamedunkey, you are such a brilliant artist and creator. Thank you for your funny and honest videos.
Man I was really getting into this and all excited for what was to come...and then it ended
4:38 Ain't that just it. You're climbing the ladder your entire life as you watch someone skip 50 rungs in 3 seconds.
Real😔
This video was also well needed to really get out there that even Miyamoto was a guy with no experience at one point.
terrific video dunkey, I'm also partial to that shenmue soundtrack 😊
I did not know how much I needed Donkey Kong December. Thanks for the quality content 100% of the time man!
🐺3:52 I mean its just realistic, I'd die falling 3 feet too 💀
Love to see the Dunkey Kong series during this tough Christmas!
lol Rabbit Coaster "allows you to race four jelly beans down a slide" *video clearly shows five jelly beans racing*
Unironically very glad to see Dunkey do a real Donkey Kong video again
Kickin' off Donkey Kong December exactly the way we all wanted
“Not even close baby” - Donkey Kong
0:33 Canadian Prime Minister jumpscare
Glad to see donkey kong december is making it's return
Nardwar and dunkey just seems like a winning combination 🤣🤣
3:48 lmfao
You know, I never thought twice about the name “DONKEY Kong.” It all makes sense now.
01:23 That really is a big BIG phone! 😄
Can’t wait for The Donkey Kong and The Donkey Kong Rises
While everyone else is talking about Callisto Protocol, dunkey brings us the this obscure game Donkey Kong
Thank you Dunkey. That game was revolutionary and you didn’t even talk about it. Handstands, triple jumps, gigantic boss. Shivers up and down my spine.
Thanks for talking about this underrated indie gem Dunkey, it'll help introduce it to people that have never heard of it before
If I had that rabbit racing toy as a kid, I would've absolutely loved it
Donkey you're so talented. Thank you for making videos.
This was very informative. Thank you. I now feel like I know more about video game.
I would pay a fortune to see a dunkey documentary in theaters.
This game really makes you feel like donkey Kong
we knew dunkey could never forget nor forsake dunkey kong december
I like how you added that Shenmue music in the video 😂
Truly another beautiful Donkey Kong December (the greatest annual experience to exist) video.
Time for the best season of the year
Dunky Kong is truly the darkest of dark souls
Getting closer to another Donkey Kong December
1:57 the way he says luuuv tester
Bro that rabbit coaster actually looks cool asf