Steve Wiebe plays Donkey Kong after the screening of Picturehouse's "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" at the Museum of the Moving Image on August 12, 2007 in New York City. (Andrew H ...

The beloved arcade game Donkey Kong turns 40 years old this month. First released by Nintendo in July 1981 to Japanese audiences, it became a mainstream hit in the U.S., surging a golden age of ...

One of the earliest known platform games, Donkey Kong, which arrived 40 years ago this summer, ... On the contrary, Donkey Kong climbs ladders and smashes steel beams right from the start.

You've got sprites of both Mario and Donkey Kong, along with the classic pink platforms and white ladders against a jet-black background. It's iconic and it simply works.

As the Donkey Kong universe – save for a few ladders and girders – hadn't really been explored in any great detail, Rare had the chance to leave a significant mark on the series.

Donkey Kong Cheats For Atari 8-bit. View Creator Credits. First, you have to obtain a new high score with either 37,000 73,000 or 77,000. Then you have to lose all of your remaining lives, with ...

Donkey Kong killscreen overcome after 44 years For four decades, more than 117 rounds were not possible in the original Donkey Kong. But it is possible, although hardly for human players.

Excellent Donkey Kong players register their high scores in level 22, which is where the kill screen occurs. The bonus score timer overflows - Kosmic's video below goes into much more detail on ...

For the better part of 44 years, Nintendo's 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong was understood to have a single, definitive endpoint: a "kill screen" where a bug ensures that Mario will inevitably die ...