That's probably the real reason he stays between those two pipes, because he had unlimited space for all his arcade machines, all of his different handheld consoles, and all the different games to go with it that he can play as much as he wants.
and they make a limited download of the nes version on 3ds where they added the pie factory stage back in. you can not tell what way the conveyors are moving but the ladders do move
Fun fact: It was Coleco who got the license to develop Donkey Kong for home consoles pre-NES; they deliberately made the Atari and Intellivision ports look terrible so their Colecovision would stand out.
@@jadsi But that's the thing. It's not a direct port, they actually added a new stage. It's much less of a direct port than the GBA version, for example.
Yeah, it was called Donkey Kong: Original Edition! It got a limited release under two circumstances: pre-installed on a certain kind of Wii to celebrate a Mario-related anniversary, and as a Club Nintendo reward for registering a digital copy of certain 3DS titles for America, if not the rest of the world. It didn’t just add the pie factory (which I heard is actually supposed to be cement), it also added missing animations, namely DK carrying away Pauline when Mario reached the top. It’s sad it got such a limited release, it deserves to be more commonly available.
@@bsharpmajorscale Up until the mobile games, Nintendo kept their IPs exclusive to their own consoles ever since the failure that was the Phillips CD-i.
the vic20 version is actually very impressive for the computer it is running on, the fact is the vic20 only has a text mode, so the whole game is running with text characters and nothing else
Just stumbled on this video and i have to admit its just so entertaining, have to give credit where credit is due. I hope you make more like this in the future!
14:26: Seems logical. This version was released on the same year as Saturday Supercade, where our first glimpse of Mario's modern color scheme was presented.
There was that modiefied NES version with the Pie level once released, called Donkey Kong: Original Edition. To my knowledge, it was only released for the special red Wii and 3DS Virtual Console, maybe also for Wii U VC but i'm not 100% sure about that.
@@Mqstodon Nintendo made Donkey Kong 1, Jr, and 3 before licensing the brand out Rare, their (at the time) second party dev. They did the series all the way up until 64, when they were bought by Microsoft. The series was bounced around for spin-offs for a while, before being given to Retro, who made Returns and Tropical Freeze. Neither Rare nor Retro actually OWNS Donkey Kong, they just made the games. Yes, Retro is working on Prime 4 currently, but Nintendo still owns the series. Even if they hadn’t wanted to license the IP out to some other dev again for whatever reason, they could have at least done something. A package of all the DK related material on the Eshop? Any sort of celebration would be appreciated, but it’s been four months into the 40th Anniversary so far.
Handhelds like that Coleco Tabletop and Tiger games honestly remind me of how the Game and Watch games had class and knew how to actually make something fun and creative with probably the strictest limitations you could ever give a game.
Just a bit of trivia but the Pie level is actually a Cement Factory! Which makes a little more sense given the construction angle of the old DK game. But those cement blobs sure look like pies. Why is the pie level (Cement Factory) missing on some of the home ports? It's all about a coding or licencing issue from Ikegami Tsushinki the one who program the arcade game. After the release of Donkey Kong Jr., the arcade successor to Donkey Kong, Ikegami sued Nintendo for the unauthorized duplication of the Donkey Kong program code. Nintendo managed to settle the dispute out of court after the two companies came to an agreement. At the time of the suit, computer programs were not considered copyrightable material. The Tokyo High Court gave a verdict in 1989 that acknowledged the originality of program code. Ikegami and Nintendo reached a settlement the following year; the terms of it were never disclosed.
I think the more likely reason for some versions not having the stage is space. You'll notice that almost all versions that omit stages are on cartridges, which had (especially at the time) very limited space compared to the disks and tapes of the computer versions.
I really liked this video. Ever since i saw you were playing the DK ports, I knew this video was in the works. It was defiantly worth it! You're taking a risk, and I really appreciate it. Defiantly felt the effort that went into this video. This is exactly the content I like to see.
"Welcome to part 60 of my DK marathon, today we rank every single sprite and 3d model of Donkey Kong from the original arcade Donkey Kong ALL the way to the Nintendo Switch"
Usually I don't agree with what you're saying about video games but I have to admit that you're absolutely right about every version of Donkey kong especially the worst of them with the pink demon Donkey kong.
It's frankly amazing how Nintendo made great LCD games on the Game & Watches, when companies like Tiger and whoever made the McDonald's happy meal LCD games made shit like THE WRIST GAAAAME
Most Game & Watch games hold up really well, which is especially damning when most of them are way older than Tiger's games. LCD games _can_ be good, but I don't think Tiger ever made a decent one. They spent all their focus on gobbling up licenses and cramming somewhat-recognizable characters onto the screen but never seemed to spent much attention on gameplay.
I absolutely love donkey kong. Not just as a character but as a franchise. The originals, Country, even 64 are great to me. I've wanted somebody to talk DK for a while, and I don't see Nitrorad or Johnny vs. sayin' anything. Thanks, goomba for givin' a fan like me something to smile about today. :)
He’s stated before that someone is flushing games down the toilet, causing the games to come out of the pipes. How they’re fitting an arcade cabinet down the toilet is less certain
This was hella awesome! I've actually been playing a lot of Donkey Kong games lately in my spare time because of you Goomba, even found a never been used cartridge + box for the Game Boy DK game the other day at my local game shop! Last week I actually did a comparison lets play of the arcade and NES versions, and it is nowhere near as awesome as this review of 20 versions/ports of this great game! This video gets a 10/10 in my book!
This was a really fun video. I did indeed learn about a lot of Donkey Kong games that I didn't know existed. Heck, I'd say I didn't know about the majority of versions. Really interesting to see that there were some pretty good ports later on. I wish Nintendo would remake the game someday, with better controls, updated graphics, and maybe even some new levels. It's such a classic game that you'd assume they would treat it better than just porting the NES version occasionally. I really liked the music choice throughout the video too. I've been having a lot of DK Jungle Climber nostalgia due to your King of Swing tweets, and I also heard a lot of King of Swing music for the first time in the longplay I watched the other day. So it feels strangely relevant to me to hear those throughout the video. I admire your dedication for playing through all of these games. I don't know if I would have the patience to even try to get better at some of the worst ones.
Two things I was kinda expecting you to include were a quick blurb about the Atari 2600 version's sound effects, and also the upgrade of the NES version that released in 2010 on the Wii Virtual Console, entitled "Donkey Kong: Original Edition", which notably includes 50m (the pie stage).
I think the real reason we haven't gotten any actual new Donkey Kong games lately is because Nintendo's been busy trying to figure out how to live up to the glory of the Pie Stage
There's actually a later NES version of Donkey Kong that adds the missing Pie Stage! (It's cement by the way). It's Donkey Kong: Original Edition, and it's basically the same as the first NES version but with the missing stage added as well as some animations restored. It didn't actually release on the NES though, it was instead made years later as a Virtual Console game for the Wii, but only released on special Wiis in Europe, and then later as a limited-time thing on the 3DS. It is an actual normal NES rom though, and an NTSC rom at that despite its Europe release (meaning it was running at a slower speed than it's supposed to on VC in order to match PAL, but playing the rom itself on a normal emulator runs it at full speed), so it really is the definitive version of NES Donkey Kong.
Actually, there's another version. Donkey Kong "special edition", released on the red Wii for Mario's 25th anniversary. The game is the NES version, but includes the pie factory. Since it is a NES rom, it can be extracted and played on a real console.
Awesome video, I had no idea Donkey Kong got so many ports. BTW I can't believe no one has pointed this out but, you know how DK has an idle animation in most of these where he beats his chest (or flexing in the MSDOS version)? Well check out his idle in the ZX Spectrum and MSX versions, that's gotta be painful!
1:13 Arcade 3:46 Coleco Tabletop 4:58 Coleco Vision 6:52 Atari 2600 8:21 Intellivision 10:33 Game&Watch 12:13 Atati 8-bit Family 14:26 Commodore 64 (US) 16:53 Commodore VIC-20 18:49 NES/Famicom 20:26 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A 22:09 Apple II 23:53 MS-DOS / PC-DOS 25:35 Coleco Adam 27:11 Amstrad CPC 28:31 Commodore 64 (EU) 29:48 MSX 30:57 ZX Spectrum 31:56 Atari 7800 33:02 Game Boy 33:21 Donkey Kong LCD watch 33:43 Game Boy Advance I included the ones he didn't rate. They also made Donkey Kong for the Wii and the 3DS, but those weren't mentioned in this video.
2:21 I hear the main part of Gangplank Galleon. I doubt it's the case, but it's an interesting idea that Rare might have based the rhythm of Gangplank Galleon on this.
I really liked this video! I'm sure it took a lot of time and research, but I think it payed off. Honestly, I never really played any version of Donkey Kong, but this makes me want to^^
You skipped the re-release of the NES Port on Wii that includes the pie level (you said you wont include emulated versions, but this case changes the game)
Thing about the AtariSoft C64 port, it was meant for NTSC (so with the other AtariSoft ports, and the Atari 8-bit versions of many games). So they will be unbearably-slow on a PAL system. Also, over in your part in the world, the Wii VC got both official romhacks. DK got the pie factory and I believe the intro animation. Also Mario Bros. got an EU VC version that even includes the introductions for all the enemies.
I remember a Guru Larry video saying that the Atari 2600 and Intellivision versions were made worse in puropse by Coleco to make the Colecovision version look as good as possible
Yep that's 100% true, there are fan remakes for the Intellivision, Atari 2600, and C64, with much better music, and visuals for each system. Adrian from Adrian's Digital Basement is quit fond of the C64 remake called Donkey Kong Arcades as it does have a crazy good SID tune intro, and he calls it a DK Dance Party lol!!
I just barely started, but the Donkey Kong 64 version has so many strange quirks I would consider counting it. It's like the arcade version squashed into the NES versions size and then you got weird things like the barrels in 25m rebounding way harder when they roll off girders
The conveyor belts change direction when DK hits the left side of the screen. In the GB game they added an animation of him hitting a lever to turn it back
Petition for all of us to crowdfund some coins to get LonelyGoomba some wings, or a hopping goomba shoe to get him outta there. That or at least maybe some furnishings to turn that space between pipes into a proper house. Perhaps a warp pipe into the underground to set up a decent apartment and game storage area. Maybe even a personal arcade space. The good ol' Goomba deserves something for all the entertainment he's giving us.
You actually did miss one version! The Modern version of Donkey Kong in Game & Watch Gallery 2! It's essentially an expanded version of the original Game & Watch version, with music and more levels. Really fun!
25:37 How in the HELL do you program an interactive video game on a CASETTE TAPE!? How can a linear reel to reel device be used interactively? Do you have a time limit before the game abruptly ends, or does it reverse direction? How can something like that even be read and made to work as a video game!? I don't get it.
@@TheLonelyGoomba Omfg, this is the first time you've answered me! :O I just remember my married name still being on that screen long after my divorce, so that was a bit weird! XD
Goomba is one of the most lit characters i just never realized it till late like when I used him in super mario party. Sorry never liked baseball too much but sluggers looked good, didn't have it though i had strikers
Fun fact, the atari and intellivision versions are so lackluster because coleco made them both and wanted to trick customers into thinking the coleco is superior
I wonder how many of these versions implemented the ability to (sometimes) control barrels and proper fireball behavior (they should only go down ladders if Mario is below their vertical coordinates). Details like these are what makes the arcade version particularly fun to play over and over again. Even the NES version missed this.
There was actually a decent bootleg port called Donkey King that was coded in 2 weeks and the programmer said it was crap but it's universally praised. It played well on a computer that freezes every time it plays audio.
There's a lot of space between those two pipes to fit so many consoles or arcade machines.
But not enough room to store the money to by those consoles
I think he plays fast and loose with the space he has tbh
That's probably the real reason he stays between those two pipes, because he had unlimited space for all his arcade machines, all of his different handheld consoles, and all the different games to go with it that he can play as much as he wants.
Or female goombas
I like to think he trades in his games for new ones when Mario shows up!
Every time the pie stage is included the world rejoices
and they make a limited download of the nes version on 3ds where they added the pie factory stage back in. you can not tell what way the conveyors are moving but the ladders do move
unless their poison pies
@Brian Weiletz now i want pie
I know a guy who hates the number 69
I WILL NOT ruin the 666.
Only the 666 with 6 replies :)
Fun fact: It was Coleco who got the license to develop Donkey Kong for home consoles pre-NES; they deliberately made the Atari and Intellivision ports look terrible so their Colecovision would stand out.
Big brain move ngl.
😮
The atari version was still better because I didn't have to use that Asinine with a capital "A" number pad.
I came back here to post that.
Was it? I hear about that story but I never see any evidence that that was the case.
two donkey kongs?!?
Gib
H E ' S D E A D
It's a parallel universe
Konkey Dong
Next time, do a cosplay as Pauline.
Pretty sure if you set Garfield on fire he'd just chalk it up to Mondays.
kudos to watching till the very end
@@TheLonelyGoomba if you look at the intellevision version of donkey kong Pauline is replaced by Rosalina
mondays can rot in the fiery depths of a volcano
@@TheLonelyGoomba have you played family guy back into the multiverse
@@anthonycrazynessadventures3259 y a y
There's actually a version of the NES port for the 3DS that includes the pie factory stage. I think that counts as a different version.
he said no direct ports but cool
@@jadsi But that's the thing. It's not a direct port, they actually added a new stage. It's much less of a direct port than the GBA version, for example.
@@Krisipoke oh
Yeah, it was called Donkey Kong: Original Edition! It got a limited release under two circumstances: pre-installed on a certain kind of Wii to celebrate a Mario-related anniversary, and as a Club Nintendo reward for registering a digital copy of certain 3DS titles for America, if not the rest of the world.
It didn’t just add the pie factory (which I heard is actually supposed to be cement), it also added missing animations, namely DK carrying away Pauline when Mario reached the top.
It’s sad it got such a limited release, it deserves to be more commonly available.
@@Sparkster2600 that version is actually still available in europe which is very nice
It’s sort of weird to think about a time when Nintendo actually licensed their games to other consoles.
looking at the apple 2 you wonder why they stopped doing it
Yeah. I don't see its too weird.
@@lilybelden9405 probably had more to do with the CD-i
@@lilybelden9405 But they didn't? Unless you don't count mobile games as actual games, which is understandable.
@@bsharpmajorscale Up until the mobile games, Nintendo kept their IPs exclusive to their own consoles ever since the failure that was the Phillips CD-i.
24:13
I was not expecting this relationship between Kong and Doom.
*Pinky Kong is freaking terrifying and that 8-bit Doom music was great.*
this is due to the color scheme back then
Guys Nintendo made a new Kong his name is DOOM kong
the vic20 version is actually very impressive for the computer it is running on, the fact is the vic20 only has a text mode, so the whole game is running with text characters and nothing else
*Waits 2 months for a Lonelygoomba video*
Lonelygoomba: *Uploads a 30+ minute video*
Me: *Grabs popcorn*
In honor of this videos topic, you should probably grab a pie instead.
Just stumbled on this video and i have to admit its just so entertaining, have to give credit where credit is due. I hope you make more like this in the future!
I've always imagined the standard Goombas talking in a rude and funny way, but this voice of a experienced man sounds perfect, somehow.
Gonna be honest, I didn't even know the pie stage existed until now.
I played Donkey Kong '94 religiously on both 3DS and an Emulator Website. So I knew about the Pie Stage.
Me either
I only knew due to the fact it was in DK64
me too
"It's on like Donkey Kong!"
-Lonely Goomba when he had the idea for this video
😆
Me and Alison velvets; 🤣🤣🤣
ts not funny
@@jasminefrazier8624mf what
@@gnasheroffthewall me and Ali: nothing
14:26: Seems logical. This version was released on the same year as Saturday Supercade, where our first glimpse of Mario's modern color scheme was presented.
There was that modiefied NES version with the Pie level once released, called Donkey Kong: Original Edition. To my knowledge, it was only released for the special red Wii and 3DS Virtual Console, maybe also for Wii U VC but i'm not 100% sure about that.
I’m going to check if it is on the wii u version
I have it on Wii and 3DS Virtual Console. It's excellent
I’m back and it is a.no there is no pie level in donkey Kong on the vc wii u
lonely goombas shown more love for donkey kong in 6 months than nintendo has in 6 years
Nintendo a few yrs ago:* laughs in 60 dollar port*
Nintendo on DK 40th anniversary: ...
ya they dint see the money that could be made becuse of that ape
Rare makes the games? I don't? Get the problem? Rare is working oj metroid, they clearly can't make a donkey kong game at the moment
@@Mqstodon are you from the past?
@@Mqstodon Nintendo made Donkey Kong 1, Jr, and 3 before licensing the brand out Rare, their (at the time) second party dev. They did the series all the way up until 64, when they were bought by Microsoft. The series was bounced around for spin-offs for a while, before being given to Retro, who made Returns and Tropical Freeze. Neither Rare nor Retro actually OWNS Donkey Kong, they just made the games. Yes, Retro is working on Prime 4 currently, but Nintendo still owns the series. Even if they hadn’t wanted to license the IP out to some other dev again for whatever reason, they could have at least done something. A package of all the DK related material on the Eshop? Any sort of celebration would be appreciated, but it’s been four months into the 40th Anniversary so far.
This Goomba hasn’t changed a SINGLE bit and I’m glad
Oh yes he has. He used to sound so depressed
@@nostalgiaontheairmichaelch9932
Eh a little
I dunno, this is the first video I've watched of him in years and he seems much less grumpy and critical than he used to be.
@@davisbowe8668 exactly my point. I said he USED to sound more depressed
@@asrieldreemurr8059 other than his look, yeah, he has changed.
Imagine if Mr. Goomba actually streamed 😮
Vtuber goomba
@@pizzatime1901 Voomba.
Who's Ms. Goomba?
@@EpikBirb who do you think we are talking about here
@@pizzatime1901 Oh no-
6:45
LG: I like pie. What’s wrong with pie?
RUclips ad: Did somebody say “Domino’s Piece of the Pie App?”
If you want a real challenge, rank all of the Donkey Kong bootlegs.
I thought about it tbh.
where do you even begin?
@@TheLonelyGoomba can't wait until you play Donkey Kong Country or F-Zero. It is DK's month this April, anyway.
I made a really bad one called Large Monkey if anyone wants it
@@CelixFat i imagine you start with crazy kong, thats a good place as any
Donkey Kong: **Exists**
Any game producer in the 80s: It's free real estate.
Donkey Kong be lookin more depressed than the Atari 800 port in the Commodore 64 port
Handhelds like that Coleco Tabletop and Tiger games honestly remind me of how the Game and Watch games had class and knew how to actually make something fun and creative with probably the strictest limitations you could ever give a game.
This man has been stuck in one place for almost a decade and still is alive...
Legend
Just a bit of trivia but the Pie level is actually a Cement Factory! Which
makes a little more sense given the construction angle of the old DK game. But those cement blobs sure look like pies. Why is the pie level (Cement Factory) missing on some of the home ports? It's all about a coding or licencing issue from Ikegami Tsushinki the one who program the arcade game. After the release of Donkey Kong Jr., the arcade successor to Donkey Kong, Ikegami sued Nintendo for the unauthorized duplication of the Donkey Kong program code. Nintendo managed to settle the dispute out of court after the two companies came to an agreement. At the time of the suit, computer programs were not considered copyrightable material. The Tokyo High Court gave a verdict in 1989 that acknowledged the originality of program code. Ikegami and Nintendo reached a settlement the following year; the terms of it were never disclosed.
cool
And The "pies" Are Sand Piles
Yeah
I think the more likely reason for some versions not having the stage is space. You'll notice that almost all versions that omit stages are on cartridges, which had (especially at the time) very limited space compared to the disks and tapes of the computer versions.
I really liked this video. Ever since i saw you were playing the DK ports, I knew this video was in the works. It was defiantly worth it!
You're taking a risk, and I really appreciate it. Defiantly felt the effort that went into this video. This is exactly the content I like to see.
I swear, lonely goomba is going to be a donkey Kong focused channel
Even though he only uploads every month or two, it's always worth it when he does...
At least his upload schedule got better
@@rockblasters2 True...
@@IsaacWale2004 I love his videos and would love to do a collab with him someday
@@rockblasters2 Wish ya luck
@@IsaacWale2004 thanks man you seem nice
"Welcome to part 60 of my DK marathon, today we rank every single sprite and 3d model of Donkey Kong from the original arcade Donkey Kong ALL the way to the Nintendo Switch"
Chilling with Goomba right before an ad hits. Why do I wish all youtubers should do that.
Usually I don't agree with what you're saying about video games but I have to admit that you're absolutely right about every version of Donkey kong especially the worst of them with the pink demon Donkey kong.
I loved the dedication for this video
It's frankly amazing how Nintendo made great LCD games on the Game & Watches, when companies like Tiger and whoever made the McDonald's happy meal LCD games made shit like THE WRIST GAAAAME
Most Game & Watch games hold up really well, which is especially damning when most of them are way older than Tiger's games.
LCD games _can_ be good, but I don't think Tiger ever made a decent one. They spent all their focus on gobbling up licenses and cramming somewhat-recognizable characters onto the screen but never seemed to spent much attention on gameplay.
I absolutely love donkey kong. Not just as a character but as a franchise. The originals, Country, even 64 are great to me. I've wanted somebody to talk DK for a while, and I don't see Nitrorad or Johnny vs. sayin' anything.
Thanks, goomba for givin' a fan like me something to smile about today. :)
We Love him too
Donkey Kong in the Apple 2 version looks like he's wearing bondage gear lol
Soooo....
Every single version of Donkey Kong Jr. next?
nah, mario bros
We finally got it
You know, the fact that he’s able to access all of these likely means he’s no longer stuck between the two pipes.
He’s stated before that someone is flushing games down the toilet, causing the games to come out of the pipes. How they’re fitting an arcade cabinet down the toilet is less certain
@@zoroearc2582 I guess it was dismantled.
Goomba: I know I shouldn’t have trusted pies. they’re evil 2:48
I love how Donkey Kong in the thumbnail is like, "You're mine, too, little man."
Me and Alison: saves goomba
Goomba : thanks mr and ms homunculos Thingies
I keep hearing "bowels" when you say barrels and it cracks me up. Great videos! Loved the one on my favorite game - Donkey Kong Junior
I saw this and I’m literally playing donkey Kong country 2 right now as I’m listening to this goomba and I said to myself how appropriate
Decided to come back for nostalgia and gotta say this channel has greatly improved
I would love to see you Make a PacMan episode of this series
I loved this. Keep it up Goomba!
22:24 The virgin Jumpman vs the chad Donkey Kong
More like
The virgin Mario vs the Chad cranky kong
This was hella awesome! I've actually been playing a lot of Donkey Kong games lately in my spare time because of you Goomba, even found a never been used cartridge + box for the Game Boy DK game the other day at my local game shop! Last week I actually did a comparison lets play of the arcade and NES versions, and it is nowhere near as awesome as this review of 20 versions/ports of this great game! This video gets a 10/10 in my book!
This was a really fun video. I did indeed learn about a lot of Donkey Kong games that I didn't know existed. Heck, I'd say I didn't know about the majority of versions. Really interesting to see that there were some pretty good ports later on.
I wish Nintendo would remake the game someday, with better controls, updated graphics, and maybe even some new levels. It's such a classic game that you'd assume they would treat it better than just porting the NES version occasionally.
I really liked the music choice throughout the video too. I've been having a lot of DK Jungle Climber nostalgia due to your King of Swing tweets, and I also heard a lot of King of Swing music for the first time in the longplay I watched the other day. So it feels strangely relevant to me to hear those throughout the video.
I admire your dedication for playing through all of these games. I don't know if I would have the patience to even try to get better at some of the worst ones.
Donkey kong on gameboy
Good grief, the TI 99/4A. That was my family's computer. We never had Donkey Kong, though.
Two things I was kinda expecting you to include were a quick blurb about the Atari 2600 version's sound effects, and also the upgrade of the NES version that released in 2010 on the Wii Virtual Console, entitled "Donkey Kong: Original Edition", which notably includes 50m (the pie stage).
"Wait a minute. Demon? Pink? Hell? Pinky? Doom?? Doom was launched on the MS-DOS?! IT'S ALL CONNECTED!!!" XD
I knew this day we encounter the "other" versions.
The man, the myth, the legend is back and with a 32 minute video. Youve truly blessed us
This is the equivalent of caddy playing the first 10 megaman classic games.
I enjoyed that video
I was just thinking that
Or LS Mark Watching every episode of the simpsons
@@kingkirby1394 holy crap, EVERY episode!? I couldn't do that!
Except he doesn't get all hope slowly drained from soul
Great video. I love videos about obscure "Nintendo" games. Best content I have seen for a long time on RUclips.
I think the real reason we haven't gotten any actual new Donkey Kong games lately is because Nintendo's been busy trying to figure out how to live up to the glory of the Pie Stage
This video is some of your very best content yet! It is highly entertaining and informative!
There's actually a later NES version of Donkey Kong that adds the missing Pie Stage! (It's cement by the way). It's Donkey Kong: Original Edition, and it's basically the same as the first NES version but with the missing stage added as well as some animations restored. It didn't actually release on the NES though, it was instead made years later as a Virtual Console game for the Wii, but only released on special Wiis in Europe, and then later as a limited-time thing on the 3DS. It is an actual normal NES rom though, and an NTSC rom at that despite its Europe release (meaning it was running at a slower speed than it's supposed to on VC in order to match PAL, but playing the rom itself on a normal emulator runs it at full speed), so it really is the definitive version of NES Donkey Kong.
Good Job on reaching your milestone for this video of 100k! It's great to see a creator reap the rewards of their effort
Actually, there's another version. Donkey Kong "special edition", released on the red Wii for Mario's 25th anniversary. The game is the NES version, but includes the pie factory. Since it is a NES rom, it can be extracted and played on a real console.
@@fiftyskoopaklub2982 nope, but it is still the most faithful port, so it gets a point
Awesome video, I had no idea Donkey Kong got so many ports. BTW I can't believe no one has pointed this out but, you know how DK has an idle animation in most of these where he beats his chest (or flexing in the MSDOS version)? Well check out his idle in the ZX Spectrum and MSX versions, that's gotta be painful!
This made me wanna play Donkey Kong
1:13 Arcade
3:46 Coleco Tabletop
4:58 Coleco Vision
6:52 Atari 2600
8:21 Intellivision
10:33 Game&Watch
12:13 Atati 8-bit Family
14:26 Commodore 64 (US)
16:53 Commodore VIC-20
18:49 NES/Famicom
20:26 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
22:09 Apple II
23:53 MS-DOS / PC-DOS
25:35 Coleco Adam
27:11 Amstrad CPC
28:31 Commodore 64 (EU)
29:48 MSX
30:57 ZX Spectrum
31:56 Atari 7800
33:02 Game Boy
33:21 Donkey Kong LCD watch
33:43 Game Boy Advance
I included the ones he didn't rate.
They also made Donkey Kong for the Wii and the 3DS, but those weren't mentioned in this video.
Lonely goomba is too underrated
Remember when the Lonely Goomba didn't talk about Donkey Kong all the time? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I love this change of style! I really hope this gets tons of views!
29:48 is funny how he is playing a Nintendo game, on a PC produced by Microsoft and manufactured by Sony.
8:32 Mario's outfit reminds me of fixit Felix jr
That's a really good thumbnail, can't wait to watch this video
For donkey kong; truly an inspirational speech.
2:21 I hear the main part of Gangplank Galleon.
I doubt it's the case, but it's an interesting idea that Rare might have based the rhythm of Gangplank Galleon on this.
"Guess I'll keep playing Donkey Kong, for the rest, of my life."
Yooo this is that video that's been in the works for months! Excited to watch
This just might be your lengthiest vid yet .
It really is.
I really liked this video! I'm sure it took a lot of time and research, but I think it payed off. Honestly, I never really played any version of Donkey Kong, but this makes me want to^^
Things Nintendo fans want most:
Mother 3 and that elusive Pie Stage
So many Donkey Kongs, so little time. Never knew there were this many versions of it. Great work on the video!
You skipped the re-release of the NES Port on Wii that includes the pie level (you said you wont include emulated versions, but this case changes the game)
I still lose sleep over this.
I just didn't know it had a new level and it would've been the perfect end to the video.
Thing about the AtariSoft C64 port, it was meant for NTSC (so with the other AtariSoft ports, and the Atari 8-bit versions of many games). So they will be unbearably-slow on a PAL system.
Also, over in your part in the world, the Wii VC got both official romhacks. DK got the pie factory and I believe the intro animation. Also Mario Bros. got an EU VC version that even includes the introductions for all the enemies.
I remember a Guru Larry video saying that the Atari 2600 and Intellivision versions were made worse in puropse by Coleco to make the Colecovision version look as good as possible
Yep that's 100% true, there are fan remakes for the Intellivision, Atari 2600, and C64, with much better music, and visuals for each system. Adrian from Adrian's Digital Basement is quit fond of the C64 remake called Donkey Kong Arcades as it does have a crazy good SID tune intro, and he calls it a DK Dance Party lol!!
I just barely started, but the Donkey Kong 64 version has so many strange quirks I would consider counting it. It's like the arcade version squashed into the NES versions size and then you got weird things like the barrels in 25m rebounding way harder when they roll off girders
The conveyor belts change direction when DK hits the left side of the screen. In the GB game they added an animation of him hitting a lever to turn it back
The RUclips algorithm blessed me with this channel again
I remember watching this guy like 3 years ago.
I watched him like 5 years ago
Petition for all of us to crowdfund some coins to get LonelyGoomba some wings, or a hopping goomba shoe to get him outta there. That or at least maybe some furnishings to turn that space between pipes into a proper house. Perhaps a warp pipe into the underground to set up a decent apartment and game storage area. Maybe even a personal arcade space. The good ol' Goomba deserves something for all the entertainment he's giving us.
This is a better 40th anniversary gift to DK than what Nintendo's put out so far.
I am so glad to see another one of your videos! I always love seeing different perspectives of many games including the Mario series
You actually did miss one version!
The Modern version of Donkey Kong in Game & Watch Gallery 2! It's essentially an expanded version of the original Game & Watch version, with music and more levels. Really fun!
also missed, i think, the wii or the wii u NES rerelease of DK that readded the pie stage
Don’t you mean “G&W Gallery”?
4:58 I'm still trying to find this bop of a song in the background. It's so beautiful, seriously. Does anybody know what this song is?
What has more ports? Tetris or Donkey Kong?
25:37 How in the HELL do you program an interactive video game on a CASETTE TAPE!? How can a linear reel to reel device be used interactively? Do you have a time limit before the game abruptly ends, or does it reverse direction? How can something like that even be read and made to work as a video game!? I don't get it.
THE PIE IS A LIE!
- Brought To You By The Cake Is Truth Foundation
“The cake’s a fake.”
6:52 what is this music? I recognize it from downhill snowboarding but cant seem to find it
Finally, I am not on the Patreon screen 2 times anymore! XD I feared I'd be there 3 times last time I changed my name! XD
Yeah I went through the list again. It's hard to keep up cos people keep changing their names and stuff. Can take ages doing that end screen lol
@@TheLonelyGoomba Omfg, this is the first time you've answered me! :O I just remember my married name still being on that screen long after my divorce, so that was a bit weird! XD
Goomba is one of the most lit characters i just never realized it till late like when I used him in super mario party. Sorry never liked baseball too much but sluggers looked good, didn't have it though i had strikers
I looked up Donkey Kong DOS, and it does technically have the Pie Level.
Fun fact, the atari and intellivision versions are so lackluster because coleco made them both and wanted to trick customers into thinking the coleco is superior
I’ve never seen a goomba go mad! 37 MINUTES!?!
Here's an interesting drinking game. Take a shot everytime Goomba mentions the pie factory stage.
So how did you acquire all those consoles and computers to play on?
Probably emulator
@@magicjohnson3121 I meant in terms of the literal character cause all he ever had was a Gameboy and the advance to play his games
I wonder how many of these versions implemented the ability to (sometimes) control barrels and proper fireball behavior (they should only go down ladders if Mario is below their vertical coordinates). Details like these are what makes the arcade version particularly fun to play over and over again. Even the NES version missed this.
you forgot the Nintendo 3DS version of the NES Port.
(The only difference I can tell is that they added the Pie Stage)
There was actually a decent bootleg port called Donkey King that was coded in 2 weeks and the programmer said it was crap but it's universally praised. It played well on a computer that freezes every time it plays audio.