Donkey Kong retrospective, Pt 1: Nintendo's 800-lb. gorilla | NES Works  

Jeremy Parish will go down in the history books as the westerner who uttered the words "Heiankyo Alien" the most times.

I think people calling level 2 a 'pie factory' has less to do with missing the game's 'construction site' theme and more to do with relatively few people encountering wet cement at all, let alone in bins/basins like that. The only frame of reference most people have for that shape is, well, pies.

5:59 WAIT A SEC! How come Pacman passes thru those ghosts???

"It was Pong that would become gaming's *breakout* hit" - Jeremy Parish. Nice one.

Every time I hear the original DK theme, all I can hear in my head is the DK Country bassline creeping in at the end and visions of rubbery green trees and Cranky at the phonograph getting stomped by the young upstart in a flashy red tie, giant pulsing boom box, and the funkiest dance moves. What I'm saying is thanks...

I know as a 2-year-old in 1990, seeing Super Mario Bros. was a miracle. I will never forget that feeling, even being so young. I saw Donkey Kong later, and it is true; Despite its role as the basis for the Famicom design objectives it feels so dated, even if it is fun. What other instance do we have of a console redefining itself in terms of the kind of experience it can create, especially so early. Super Mario Bros. transformed the Famicom from a console that provided playable game boards to playable game worlds. It is beyond mere iteration. We always knew Super Mario Bros was important, but it is in exploring the catalog, Donkey Kong in particular here, that GoodNintentions helps us really understand why.

I never thought the cement piles looked like pies. However, I did always think the rivets were actually frothy mugs of beer. 🍺 When the rivet level was won and Kong was upside down with his legs flailing in the air, I would joke to my friends that Kong was Mario and Pauline's baby, and they were changing his diaper. I had quite the developed sense of humor at four years old...

I always thought that the reason the "pie factory" was omitted from the NES game was because of memory limitations, not because it was hard.

I could watch this series for eons if I, Jeremy, and it could live that long.

A real challenge for me is playing a couple of levels of Super Mario Bros., and then switching to Donkey Kong; in the former game, Mario can fall from any height (provided he lands on a platform below) and survive, but in Donkey Kong, too high of a fall means Mario is done for (as Jeremy said in the video). Stage 2 (the elevator level) is where I usually foul up--it always throws me off. I do, however, like the consistency that Nintendo kept in these early games: Mario can't jump while wielding the hammer in Donkey Kong, and likewise in Wrecking Crew.

I love playing ""Hac Man""

"Pie factory" is just a nickname. It's called that for obvious reasons. It's just an amusing joke, that's all.

It *is* possible for Pac-Man to glitch through ghosts under certain circumstances (term of art: "booey") but I'm not sure that's what's happening in these clips.

My first encounter with Donkey Kong was the Game&watch version. I was quite suprised when I saw the arcade game and realised that it had 4 different levels.

Glad I found this video. Entertaining and informative. Good presentation style

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i had the doublescreen Donkey kong 2 Game & Watch game when i was a kid.

All your videos are great. Keep up the good work.

Outstanding as always.

Great video. What's going on with Pac-Man's seeming invincibility in that clip?

There is a clone game of Rally-X called BB Car

I like the contrast in skill between the masterful DK player and the worst guy at Pac-man ever.

Admit it you will still be calling it the Pie Factory every time you talk about Donkey Kong.

A difficult challenge, I suck at DK.

I recently learned that Nintendo actually didn't developed Donkey Kong themselves and blew my mind. That's why they have never published it, but the NES version instead. I hope you talk about that in Part 2. Great video!

Pac-Man was 1980? Are we sure about that? I could swear my first experience with the game (or any arcade cabinet) was in '79. Maybe I've just told myself that my whole life with no basis, but my memories about these kinds of things tend to be right far more than they tend to be wrong. But then, I *have* been wrong about these things before: I've thought for years that my first time playing Final Fantasy was when I rented it from Grayson Valley Video in 1987, only to recently learn that it never made it stateside until '89.

I like the footage of the arcade version of Donkey Kong being played by someone who is clearly a witch. What's the source of that footage? I'd be interested in watching that playthrough.

I played donkey Kong at the arcade and the nes it's still very very good. 😀👍🎮

And is this the first mention of Hienkyo Alien on this channel ?

mame with cheats? what, am I watching a 'world of longplays' video? lol jk

How is Pac-Man going thru the ghosts?

9:28 how is he passing through the ghosts?

Cheating in Pacman?! Unsubbed. ;)

why you cheat pacman

5:48 Oh no, your Pac Man broke. :(

hat kind of pacman are you please playing!?

I think this gets a little far in the weeds regarding Donkey Kong's thematic qualities more than the technical details. I think you already summed up a lot of this idea on Good Nintentions so it got a bit lost when you started reiterating the Nintendo philosophy on the broader stage. Feels a bit to repetitive to be continually going backwards rather than looking at the context of the NES release. Also you called Computer Space "Spacewar" and called it an Atari product. Was Syzygy/Nutting Associates.

You're totally not cheating on Pac Man.