How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

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rk06•about 1 hour ago

wow, it is kinda unexpected that both Mario and Donkey Kong started in the same game. and that in first Donkey Kong game, the main mario was the main character.

technothrasher•30 minutes ago

Hard to be unexpected for the many of us who lived it. It wasn't that long ago. I remember first seeing a ColecoVison, which shipped with Donkey Kong, and being amazed that, unlike on the Atari 2600, the home version of Donkey Kong actually looked very close to the arcade version.

pipes•13 minutes ago

Was he called jump man at that point or am I misremembering this?

ido•5 minutes ago

He did, as is stated in the article.

rjsw•16 minutes ago

You could run the original game in Mame.

rusk•about 1 hour ago

It’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…

ButlerianJihad•about 2 hours ago

I thought that HN didn’t permit “How…” article titles?

manarth•about 2 hours ago

There's a link to the submission guidelines in the HN footer

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general, the original title is preferred, and "How…" is acceptable.

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

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