The grinding noise that DK makes in the beginning of the game and/or when you beat an arcade level gives me the sexiest video game chills. Same with the original arcade SFX for when Mario jumps over the barrels. I'm such a geek.
You have to understand that Donkey Kong is probably the very first game they ever made for the NES, and they had to fit the entire program code into 8 KB because anything more than that would have been too expensive. Cheaper cartridges with more memory didn't come along until later.
Now that I see this comment again years later, I have to make a correction: the NES version's program ROM was 16 KB, not 8 KB. I also reverse-engineered the game enough to find out they could have compressed the data better. Still, they probably had a deadline that would have made adding such a feature difficult.
@@furrykef theorically, if they were to compress it efficiently would the cement factory level make into it? there was an european revision of DK Famicom that added pie factory but the ROM is 64kb and not 40
What settings are you playing that Arcade game on? Is it an actual cabinet or MAME? The reason I ask is because the conveyor board on my arcade cabinet spits out way more fireballs the first time I see that board than yours did.
He probably played the Japanese version of the Aracde. In the arcade all four stage are available on Level 1. While the USA you don't see all 4 stages till Level 3. By that time they are much harder.
Can't believe it's 2021 and I had to watch this playthrough of Donkey Kong in order to make sense of the awful Level 2 that I never played before on the NES.
@@KrunchyTheClown78 I don’t know about you, but playing with a joystick is much less awkward than playing with a d-pad. It just feels better to move Jumpman around.
I remember a few months ago, I 1st played the Arcade version, I was thinking, this is very different than the NES version, gotta say I love the Arcade original more,
IMO, the NES version sucks compared to the arcade version. I think it sucks that the NES version has no Stage 2. Also, the arcade version has better music and SFX than the NES version
@@michaelcastellano9932 I couldn't wait to play the NES version when I bought the cartridge used. But I found out to my disappointment that the music and SFX are different from the arcade version
