Then there was the original Mario Brothers game (no, not Super, just Mario
Brothers), wich was originally an Arcade game and then got ported to the NES
as well as other platforms. But that game was much more similar in stle to
Donkey Kong since it involved a lot of jumping and avoiding enemies and
things like that. Then after every two or three levels or so you got a timed
bonus level where you grabbed as many coins as possible. I played the Arcade
version once or twice and used to frequently borrow the NES version from a
friend. Then when I got my Game Boy Advance it came with Super Mario
Advance, which I eventually traded in. But that contained the original
Arcade Mario Brothers with a lot of the same sound effects as the original
NES version but with some weird, that just being extremely out of place,
background music.
We are the Knights who say...Ni!
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From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the
original Donkey Kong, ----= apparently he began as a carpenter working on
construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to
appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes
graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ---- ie,
round, ---- thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball
shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D.
Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued
was called pauline.
then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong
jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that
game).
In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely
and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey
kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, ---- mmmm,
spreying insecticide up his behind!
The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil
mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests
done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game.
I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the
snes Released in 1994 onwards, ---- in fact I remember using the games as
revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D.
A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually
completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle
friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island
trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched
their banana hoard!
I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic,
in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they
involve a lot of swinging across vines.
Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known as
Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the young
kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour graphics and
how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of grey! ;D.
Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq, and
in fact playing the dk country games myself.
I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of
variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc
has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate
ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per
level!
beware the Grue!
Dark.
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