Donkey Kong
 

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Review and Download

Second only to Pong as the game that indoctrinated me to gaming. Probably took more of my money than any other game except pinball. I haven't played this in decades.

What a bizarre version of DK! This seems to deviate so much more from the original arcade version, moreso than any other official port of DK that I've ever played.

The reason that it is called Donkey Kong is because of a translation problem. It is supposed to be Monkey Kong. And by the way it is Mario, not a look a like.

Actually the whole it was a translation error was disproven by Shigeru Miyamoto, it was more or less along the lines that the name Donkey Kong stuck and sounded better than Monkey Kong.

Some info from Wikipedia:

Donkey Kong was created by Nintendo's game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He believed "donkey" meant "stupid" in English, and assumed the name would convey the sense "stupid ape" to an American audience. When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, he was laughed at, but the name stuck. The validity of this story, as well as others, has been disputed.

Yup seen that already, here's another link that breaks it down much more than the wikipage does.

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/donkeykong.asp

There's also the obvious copyright problems with calling the game "King Kong". I think it was on the DVD for "King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters" where I saw that Miyamoto thought Donkey Kong translated to 'stubborn ape', which is all too appropriate.

Ok, I'm confused.

Should there be something other than a .img file in the download? Or am I missing something.

The IMG file is a floppy image. Which you can mount in DOSBox using IMGMOUNT.

how? I imgmount it and nothing happens.

imgmount a x:\path\name.img -t floppy

ok, but now what? it won't open.

Maybe you could read this:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14406

That's not how you describe a problem with DOSBox.
Exact syntax of commands you entered.
Exact text of error messages.

My bad here, didn't tested it .... :o ... thought it was the usual img.

But it's a PCbooter game so:

boot x:\path\donkeyko.img

This will boot dosbox into the game directly.

Should you still have problems, read Fift's post before asking further.

Ok, thanks! that's good for the future, because Donkey Kong isn't that good on PC XD It worked, but it was extremely fast.

Lower the cycles to about 500.

I only downloaded this to see the 50m level that was cut out of the NES port, just to see it goes straight to 100m, but referred to as 50m. Also the jumping is really weird and so are the walking physics. Press right to walk right, press it again to stop? Stupid scheme.
I consider it a porting disaster.

The review is also very bad, in my opinion. It is not professionally written at all. The beginning is full of complaints about the characters name, and doesn't put the research in whether it is intended to be Mario or not [Protip: It is]. A crucial part of a review is research.