History of Donkey Kong - Gaming Historian
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Gaming Historian looks at the history of Donkey Kong, the game that gave Nintendo a footprint in the US video game market and introduced everyone's favorite plumber, Mario (known as Jumpman back in the day!)
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Man, this episode is begging to be remade, for multiple reasons.
Agreed
I highly agree, even Norman knew that this episode has several errors in his "What Facts Did I Get Wrong?" episode, this episode NEEDS to be remade for modern days
You ain't lying. Because the Popeye aspect was never covered about how the game was originally based off of Popeye, but had to be changed after they were denied rights to use the characters.
It's neat seeing how far you've come in terms of production value and story telling. This is great stuff (even better if you consider how much content was trash on youtube a decade ago) but side by side, damn you've upped your game.
Donkey Kong wasn't just based on Popeye, the game was originally going to be a popeye game but they couldn't get the rights so they changed the sprites, names, story and voila, Donkey Kong was born!
Really I thought they based it off King Kong cause a giant ape capturing a pretty girl sounds Familiar to me, or it could just be a coincidence
Oh wait it is never mind
Fun fact: The year after Donkey Kong was released, Nintendo was able to release a video game version of Popeye. In it, Olive Oyl tosses down objects such as hearts and musical notes, and Popeye tries to catch them all while avoiding Brutus. There's also a can of spinach he can "power up" with. Unfortunately, the Popeye game wasn't nearly as successful as Donkey Kong turned out to be. Check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_(video_game)
@@slapporist2180 Universal tried to sue Nintendo over Donkey Kong because the film studio thought that the plot for DK resembled King Kong, but the suit ended in Nintendo's favor when it was revealed King Kong had since been in the public domain.
Moral lesson: Make something original with your idea instead of taking something that's already popular.
This video made me a subscriber. As a kid I just loved playing NES games. Now it's interesting to learn the history behind it all.
Find it interesting that Donkey Kong, Mario, and Pauline turned 40 this past July and Nintendo didn't bother mentioning that or make a celebration about it.
DK has been getting no love from Nintendo for some years now, tf they doing, last was tropical freeze
Fun Fact:
The original King Kong has a sequel called Son of Kong. Donkey Kong Jr. could be a subtle reference to the movie.
O1993O1993 tyj
I read about it in a book once.
I *could*
I've watched so many of your videos today! Your videos are really well put together, you connect with the watchers very well! keep up with the videos man!!:)
There was also Crazy Kong, which I remember playing as a kid at a gas station close to my house. Everyone has always said it was a bootleg version, but it was officially licensed by Nintendo, before they revoked their license due to a breath of contract.
>>says zelda 2:34
>>shows picture of link
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i have been finding myself hooked on your videos! each and every single day i take a watch to a new one and learn so much about the video game history! i am greatful for your reviews which have cleared up alot of questions ive had for many years now! Thank You Mr Game historian and please keep the videoes going for years to come! if you can....if its possible..... could you do a few more nintendo classic best sellers from the arcades just like you did Donkey Kong.... maybe possibly.... Contra or R-type please. thank you again for your awesome videos you now have me as a loyal fan for life!
Seeing how old some of these videos are it makes me glad that I've been a subscriber for a long time. I love revisiting your older videos. Even back then you did such a great job providing us with quality entertainment.
You forgot to mention that Nintendo tried to get license to Popeye, but had to re-skin them as the Donkey Kong characters when they couldn't acquire it.
Also that Nintendo didn't develop Donkey Kong, they outsourced it to another company to execute Myamoto's concept (he still made the graphics I think). Also this was a great missed opportunity to mention the hilarious Universal lawsuit regarding Donkey Kong -> King Kong...
Romain Gauthier He made a video about that Lawsuit
Yup
Ironic, considering they made a Popeye arcade game in 1983.
Donkey Kong games have definitely been a part of my history. I remember being a kid in the 80s playing the arcade version at a local bowling alley, I spent quite a few quarters on that one! Of course I played some of the other DK games starting with the Atari 2600 version on up to the NES version. I remember when Donkey Kong Country came out, there was actually a Nintendo representative at my local Walmart allowing people to try the game in the store before it was released and that game for sure became popular with my wife and kids. It's amazing to see how Nintendo became famous with such an unusual character for a video game lol.
The arcade game is so hard, Mario can’t even fall a few pixels down without dying.
ha, ha. I got hooked on gaming historian through the latest vids. Going back it's easy to tell the new stuff's better produced with a more modern documentary styled polish. Perhaps in due time the subjects in the older vids can be remade with the newer professional format. still, I'll take new videos with other game industry subjects yet to be covered. :D
I've just found your channel - its amazing! Well done, and keep up the great work :)
So glad I found this channel. Who would have thought there was educational stuff on this Internets.
I love this type of content! So educational and fun to watch!
You should redo this episode.It's great, it deserves more views, and could be updated in a variety of ways.
Been watching your vids all day. They are brilliant. Thank you.
There actually is a brief moment in the 1976 version of King Kong where the titular ape throws barrels of flammable material at a man with a flamethrower. (It ends how you would expect.) I can't imagine that Shigeru Miyamoto saw that version of King Kong and took note of that specific scene though.
3:18 - "Donkey Kong was inspired by Popeye"
And this explains why the Popeye video game (which I remember from my Commodore 64) is FAAAAR too similar to Donkey Kong.
In the DKC manual, it is stated that Cranky is grampa, not his dad. It is actually in DK64 that told about this mistake. In other words Donkey Kong Junior is actually the current DK's dad.
Thanks Norman! I love these!
On the first donkey kong country, the opening sequence of the game shows cranky and a gramophone on a construction that resembles the scenary of the Donkey Kong arcade game.... I believe that this supports the theory that Cranky is, in fact the Kong from the arcade game....
Cranky Kong is the original Donkey Kong but the new Donkey Kong is his grandson and Donkey Kong Jr is the new Donkey Kong’s dad.
You causally reveal the origins of Mario's name in this episode. WOW! 4:00
Somebody probably said it here already, but the current DK isn't DK Jr. DK Jr. is missing in action currently, and the current DK is the grandson of the original DK.
This makes me miss Iwota even more.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Iwota.
Oh how far you’ve come, Norman. Even starting this video by misspelling Michael Chrichton’s name. I’d love to see this video remade.
Dude, I am LOVING all of your videos.
are you just releasing all your old videos again? cause I seen thi one before as weel as the NES 2 maybe its just me but I thought I seen these last 2 videos already
What?
Your comment is 11 years old
Yea duh
I know the video is old by now, but i think it'd be nice to mention that the current look and gameplay of "Donkey kong" for the arcades came to form when "Nintendo" failed an attemp to get a license for the "Popeye" characters in the hopes to create arcade machines based on the popular comic strip. After this failure "Miyamoto" changed around some character designs and game plot to create the version of the arcade we all know and love today.
Imagine a world without Miyamoto.
No I can't
No i wont
Mario would’ve never existed
@@jdog34505 that's the whole point
I think the theory goes: Cranky was the original DK, DK jr was his son, and the Donkey Kong we all know from DKC is DK jr's son and Cranky's grandson.
It's great to see your videos coming back!
What is the first character that pops to my head when I think about Nintendo?
Actually, Donkey Kong.
For a sec I thought he was gonna say
If you don’t know who shigeru Miya Miyamoto is you need some serious help
I just realized the intro is a comparison to between past and current well current at the time games
Why did you use the nes version of the game instead of the cabinet and why didn't you show the boards?
DK grew up so fast.
Wish I could find a DK Arcade machine here in the Pacific Northwest. It’s as if they don’t exist anymore since the 80s.
2:46 He be asserting dominance tho
this video is 10 years old. I would love to watch a remake.
Its funny how this video is teaching you how Donkey Kong was created but we are learning how Mario was created too.
that was cranking Kong on the Donkey Kong arcade game and Donkey Kong jr. is today's Donkey Kong
Well the theory is so wrong, because in Smash Bros Brawl when you use Snakes Codec in Shadow Moses Island, Octacon will state that the current Donkey Kong is actually Cranky Kongs Grandson, not is regular son, since the DK on the gameboy's version of Donkey Kong could be Cranky Kong in his younger days, because Donkey Kong Country didn't appear till November and all the release dates in the Gameboy version of Donkey Kong where before November and also to bebunk it more that in the trivia section on the Super Mario wiki page on the Gameboy version of Donkey Kong states that "This will be the last appearance of the Original Donkey Kong".
Mario, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, Kirby, Samus, Pitt, AND LJN come to mind for me.
Whenever I see a glimpse of your room I have to remind myself that I'm watching Gaming Historian and not Avgn because of how similar the video style is, the way he dresses and his game collection and even the way you talk is similar to him.
Awesome video! You need a whole video of Metroid!!!!!!
Yeah, he had removed his account & videos not too long ago due to some personal issues. Though it seems he had gotten over the personal issues and is coming back with stuff. At the moment, he's re-uploading his older videos.
Nintendo was sued by universal studios since they though they had the rights to Kong because of their movie King Kong. Just when Nintendo was on the ropes to loose the lawsuits, Kirby stepped in, pointing out that the movie studios admitted that the Kong's open domain. Thanks to Kirby, Nintendo manage to save their license and Kirby won a Boat named after DK, as well as the pink puff ball's named after him.
I have a little bit of fact that he left out. Donkey Kong was originally known in Japan as Monkey Kong, but, as I passed to America, it was mistranslated into Donkey Kong, and the name stuck, his name soon changing to that in Japan as well. This kinda contradicts to his stuff, and I'm not sure it's true. I heard it from my school, from a huge Nintendo fanatic. Dunno if it's true.
I like how the early video he still has the same mannerism as avgn or avgn like creator during that time
Wait, if Cranky Kong is the original Donkey Kong, then how old is Mario and Pauline...?
everywhere you turn when playing Nintendo games you some how come across Shigeru Miyamoto at the end credits.
Wow your videos have come a long way, but all the bases for a great youtube channel were there from the start!
I have good memories playing donkey kong on the SNES with a old school friend. I remember his carts used to be in terrible condition with no boxes and manuals. Only if he knew the value today.
You should have included the best part of Donkey Kong's saga: Universal Pictures tried to sue Nintendo because they said the game infringed on their copyright on "King Kong". This lawsuit was headed by Sid Sheinberg, who'd later become infamous for trying to re-edit Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". Howard Lincoln found out Universal DIDN'T own the copyright to "King Kong", and the studio in fact went out of their way years before to prove the license was public domain. Needless ot say, Nintendo won.
I clicked on a Donkey Kong video.
I got a Donkey Kong ad.
"when you think Nintendo, who is the first character who comes to mind?"
Well, obviously it's Mario, because you shoved him front and center when you asked.
danky kang
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Die die die memes I ate them get it out of this 2006 video
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Lol!
Well, for those people wich will think that donkeykong was one of the first arcade in the us , well no think again because there were 7 arcade games released before donkeykong, including sheriff,rader scope, space fever,helifire ,space launcher etc,,,it’s sad that most of those games are all forgotten.
Mario's appeared in over 200 video games? Wow, guess it'll be a long time before I get every game with Mario in it :D
2:37 Norman: Zelda, *picture of kink appears next to his head*
Well, to be fair, I think he knows, he's just referring Zelda as in the franchise, not Link himself.
I've succumb to watching your old videos lol I love your show.
wow... i never learned so much at once! this was utterly AWESOME! The name origin had me lmao! all i can say is that you should have a tv show like everyone else says XD
I wonder why the name change for Donkey/Cranky... is it a custom of their civilization that, after a certain age, you are given a new name which fits your personality? Hmmm...
dude, your show should be on TV!
Very professional
Sing the lyrics to Elvis' "Don't be cruel" to the 'Donkey Kong' music at the beginning!
Just traveling back in time.
How is it a "theory"? You just said the manual states that new DK is the son of the original!
Amazing man, awesome video. Keep them up please!
me: aw, what a cool retro aesthetic with the square frame and the 240p! wow you got footage of yourself as a kid? ... wait
me: looks at date of posting.
me: o.o
I've heard a theory that goes along with the Donkey Kong/Crankey Kong theory...that the Mario we know today is not the Mario from Donkey Kong, but his son. Mario/Jumpman had a different occupation, and a different girlfriend name. There was also a SNES game where you see Mario and Luigi as babies (but it's not revealed who their parents are). I actually think that Mario and Pauline are the parents of the Mario and Luigi of today.
+Akaihiryuu77 You know, that actually makes sense.
+Akaihiryuu77 Bullcrap theory. Nintendo clearly confirms that the Mario we know today debuted in Donkey Kong for the arcade. Really? Different jobs? Mario had a lot of different jobs back in the day, not just Plumber. He originally started as a carpenter, then cement factory worker, solder at vietnam, construction worker and so much more. What's wrong with not accepting the fact Mario trying out different jobs until he finally found plumbing his match huh? Nintendo also clearly confirms that Pauline is Mario's EX-girlfriend nowadays. That clearly means Peach replace Pauline when it comes to Mario's love interest. So Mario and Jumpman are the same person. Also, keep in mind Gorillas also age faster than humans. That's why original Donkey Kong age to Cranky Kong, and Mario and Pauline are still young.
That SNES game is Yoshi's Island
2:46
EPIC T-POSE
I'm glad you got a new camera, Norman.
Great video homie!!
i will be suprised to see gametrailers do a retrospect of the mario series and all your history made a episode of mario
Checking out all your videos on youtube that you're uploading now. Will be fun to see new videos later (:
When Mario, or Jumpman, rather, was first concepted, they made him a carpenter. However, they changed his occupation to a plumber when the Mario Bros. arcade game was released.
Wasn't it true that nintendo or someone was developing a popeye game but didn't have the rights for it so they did DK and Mario on a whim?
No, since that Popeye game was made and released.
I heard that was true. And then after all the money they made off Donkey Kong, they were able to pay for the rights to do their popeye game in 1982 and that's why the game play is similar to Donkey Kong.
The Popeye characters were originally going to be used in the game that later became Donkey Kong. Popeye was released because I have the arcade port on my NES
That thing about the coin shortage caused by Space Invaders is an urban legend. There's a lot of evidence to suggest it isn't true.
Glad ur back ^_^
Love your video 😎👍 donkey is my favorite video game character donkey Kong got mad at Mario for doing tricks and your right donkey Kong was born from King Kong
Here's one thing that Nintendo confirmed. That orignal Donkey Kong arcade game actually took place in New Donk City. Yes, I mean the same city from the recently released Super Mario Odyssey. To prove this is true, try going through the buildings in the city while it's night while Jump Up, Super Star is playing, they will have the same structures from one of the levels from the arcade game. Also, have a look at this cover. 6:12 That lady Donkey Kong is holding, doesn't she look familiar to you?
2:47 our boi shigeru doin the t-pose before it was cool.
DK on SNES was awesome. It pushed the limits of the SNES and almost looked 32-bit. Amazing.
Excellent! Keep up the great work.
Donkey Kong is absolutely my favorite Character from the Mario universe.
The first Donkey Kong cabinets were red. Most cabinets were blue. I think about the first 200 or so we sold were red the rest were blue.
Skipped one of the most important parts of the Donkey Kong story and a HUGE part of gaming history, the Universal vs Nintendo lawsuit over the game and the movie King Kong.
He covered that in another video he made
My favorite part is still 4:20
Captain Lou!
Popeye is one of my favourite tv shows I just love him
Country DK (junior) is my favorite Nintendo character. 2nd fav is... Mike Tyson. 😁😎 Then Mario, Link, Kirby, Lil Mac, Yoshi, etc.
Your video is used in my video game college class!
welcome back gaming historian!
Cranky Kong is the grandfather of the modern day donkey Kong.
I love when he says zelda and link comes up!
2:30
after watching two videos, im definitely subscribing.
Ahhh classic Gaming Historian. :)