The Story Of Nintendo's Official Bootleg Game- Explaining Nintendo's Attitude Towards Fan Games 

In DK, there actually is a visual indication for when the hammer will wear off-it starts to flash yellow for a brief period before it goes away completely.

This was great. It feels like it's been *YEARS* since I learned something new about Nintendo histiry

Imagine if Nintendo did something similar as to what happened with Sonic Mania. Their community is so creative and talented when it comes to rom hacks and fan games and its a shame how they always go against it because they only see it as pirating their ip.

There also was a bootleg version called "Congorilla" as well.

After seeing what happened with Pac-Man with Midway illegally making sequels and GCC at the time owning the rights to Ms Pac-Man now I don't blame Nintendo for fearing fan games GCC and Midway games stole from Bandai Namco.

From what I've seen, Nintendo doesn't really go after fan games that much, they mainly target remakes or re-imaginings of games that they're currently selling.

This is like the Ms. Pac-Man of Donkey Kong. An official rom hack of the original game. Only difference is Ms. Pac-Man is good

Boy for what I just seen, that bootleg Crazy Kong was the reason why Nintendo has shut down those fan projects in the first place. You know, Nintendo would've embrace the fan games like Sega due to the fans love and passion for their games if Crazy Kong never existed.

Intro to the video is perfection. Nintendo has alot of Twitter lawyers

I love how Nintendo dislike fan games but love their own one

The game was built on the crazy climber engine. No wonder its called CRAZY kong

thats very interesting and a cool piece of nintendo thanks Demeech I would of never know about this without you

Demeech, this was a great video! I’ve discovered a similar game in the Super Mario Bros line of games, and this video made me want to talk about it!

Excellent video! I never heard about this before. I guess the Kong was perhaps too crazy that they got themselves into legal issues.

so what you are saying to me is that if bird let monke be only in japan, red company would let us use jumpy man?

Fun fact: Mario's shirt was originally gonna be blue in Super Mario Bros. but they changed it for no exact reason at all Maybe it was for color palette limitations because his art was still blue

With the awsome 8 Grand Dad Nintendo knows the impact of bootleg games.

Oh yeah now I remember about this weird little adaptation, thanks for the reminder!

3:27 Groose is a monumental step towards gaming. Without him, gaming would never be the same. Thank you Groose.

I remember playing this at an arcade once and had no clue what it actually was. Good video!

You cannot forget the lawsuit that Universal Studios filed against NOA for copyright infringement. When the lawsuit was filed, the production of the cabinets was stopped, the Saturday morning cartoon by Ruby-Spears was taken off the air, and all merchandise had to cease production. It was a big deal. Universal Studios claimed that the story of DK infringed upon the story of King Kong. You know, a big gorilla snatching a girl and carrying her to the top of a building. At the time Nintendo was a relatively small company here in the States, and Universal knew this and thought that they had this lawsuit in the bag. Their overconfidence did them in. NOA's lawyer, John Kirby, discovered that Universal Studios had let their copyright of King Kong expire in the mid-70s. This cost Universal Studios big. Every company that produced DK merchandise had to be compensated, and CBS had to be compensated for the loss of ad revenue (the cartoon was on their network) But it was Nintendo that Universal Studios owed big time for complete loss of revenue because of the lawsuit. On a different note, Nintendo paid homage to their lawyer, John Kirby by naming that little pink puff-ball that likes to inhale things after him. Mr. Kirby was even presented with the very first copy of Kirby's Adventure for the NES. From what I remember, as soon as the copy was shrinkwrapped, it went straight to him. Just think, if Mr. Kirby had not discovered what he did regarding the expiration of Universal's copyright, one of Nintendo's beloved characters who has been in a multitude of games would have never of existed.

We need more story videos!

Crazy Kong is what killed Wrinkly Kong. (In a forest, like a wild bear)

I played this at a local pizza place that had it. Great memories!!!!

they just didn't know how much fangames have changed since the 80s i mean they are so much worse compares to what exist today

Wow this was really interesting

I'm not sure if you still care, but this is indeed Crazy Junior. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-96gztxnmt4A.html I specifically remember running into it.

For some reason I can't find any information about falcon industries.

This is gonna be great!

nice video

5:19 Based favorite color here

Personally, I prefer Crazy Kong. The physics are a bit looser, and feel better than those in Donkey Kong, at least in my opinion. I’ve always been more of a DK Jr. person myself, but I’d never pass up Crazy Kong if I saw it somewhere somehow.

He's definetly crazy also FINNAly a fact that you never knew about mario

Ronald vs Mario was my favorite game ngl I think Arnold should try it

Did not expect this from Nintendo

So thats maybe how nintendo got strict woth fan games

0:41 your fan base is... interesting to say the least

This Game's overall rating is a 5/10

It’s on like Crazy Kong

I have no words

Crazy Kong? O... OH N O

NOOO I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL NIGHT NIPPON

I have a crazy junior cab i have pictures too

Chintendo, the bootleg Nintendo.

Crazy Kong is mentally insane.

Turns out the origin story of why Nintendo hates fangames is basically like Adam and Eve. Falcon had one rule to follow and chose not to do so and affected Nintendo fan projects as a whole. Sega is basically Jesus since you can make fangames and fan remakes as long as no profit is involved. Basically this just gave "Christian Sonic" a reason to exist.

mad

Has nintendo ever cause bodly harm to people who make fan games?

This video seems a little bit stolen from the Amiiben one

I would wait to video call slim Kirby my finance Twitter account or I could just say that I am disabled

This is upsetting

why does your logotype make your username look like it starts with a B