Donkey Kong Documentary

[Comic Book Geek]

The Donkey Kong Documentary we've waited our entire lives for

I have to see this

http://www.apple.com/trailers/picturehouse/kingofkong/trailer/

[MegoSteve]

I would love to see it, but I don't think it's coming anywhere near here. I will pick it up on DVD.

I am totally obsessed with the new version of Pac-man called Pac-man Championship Edition... it's an Xbox Live Arcade game with a leaderboard, so you can see how your score ranks with everyone else's. I'm ranked in the top 10 in the world on 5:00 Championship Mode (at least, last time I checked), and I waste hours a day working and trying to improve my score. The catch is, this game is timed, only five minutes long, so I can watch my pace and quit if I am doing poorly or get killed; I'd guess I probably start forty or fifty games a day, and play through maybe five to ten.

I cannot imagine trying to practice to break a record on an old school arcade game where you would have to sit and play one game for hours and hours at a time to even reach a point where you know you might get a record. It just boggles my mind how someone could sit to rack up a million points on a game where you might score 100,000 points in a half hour.

[huedell]

DONKEY KONG is one of my favorite things I've ever experienced
in my life...seriously...I'm an old school arcade game lover
and DK and PACMAN were, like, the two biggest---and I'm more of a
"DK man" than a "PM man"----my heart will always truly lie with
the original STAR WARS game though----anyways---wish I could see this
---but I probably won't---for a myriad of reasons---starting with that I
don't have a T.V./cable hookup

Keep swinging that hammer though!

[Adam West]

I will never forget DK and Pacman and the absolute craze that hit.

The local carnivals/county fairs used to set up arcade tents and it was unbelievable when Pac Man arrived. I'm starting to sound like a grandpa but $.25 was not chump change back then to play a game and when Pac Man debuted, they charged $.50 per game and there was a huge line of people just for the opportunity to give it a go.

I don't know how many quarters I spent on Donkey Kong when that came out but it was a lot.

Now, when you walk into an arcade, you hardly see any games. Most of the time they are games of chance that spit out tickets to turn in for cheap prizes. It is basically legalized gambling for kids and my kids will feed those machines like nobodys business. No skill involved. One of them is basically a roulette type wheel, hit a button and a ball pops down and into a hole with a number and that is the number of tickets you get which can range from 1 maybe up to 200 or so. But it takes 400 or 500 tickets just to purchase a cheezy $1 store plushed animal.

When I take my kids to the these places, I'll hit a skee ball machine or play a good old fashioned game of pinball which nobody ever seems to be playing.

[mitchedwards]

Very cool,
Back in the day I was hooked on that game. Thats the reason I bought a Colecovision so I could play that game.

Few months ago I found a DK game at Dave and Busters. Thats where I spent the rest of my day.

[Wee67]

I will be soooo tempted to see this. Not just becuase of my nostalgia for that game and time, bit for so many reasons. A major one being a fascination with how something so seemingly unimportant can come to define a person's life.

That said, I completely remember spending hours in dark arcades trying to figure out how to beat these games, DK especially. Post-Mego, video games dominated my time until girls became a major interest.

[kresge1]

Nothing beats the classic arcade games.Its great that they seem to still inspire kids to play.My Son is in love with Pac-Man

[Comic Book Geek]

I will be soooo tempted to see this. Not just becuase of my nostalgia for that game and time, bit for so many reasons. A major one being a fascination with how something so seemingly unimportant can come to define a person's life.

That said, I completely remember spending hours in dark arcades trying to figure out how to beat these games, DK especially. Post-Mego, video games dominated my time until girls became a major interest.

Yeah, right after Megos and right before girls. It was Space Invaders, Pac man and DK Jr in that order. I could drop all my money in a couple of hours.

I had a friend that claimed the world record at Joust. He was Big Time in small town USA.

[Corellian Corvette]

I saw the movie this weekend in Seattle. It's *ubelievable* how amazing it is, and how it captures people and the BS that goes on inside many "cliques" - this Steve Wiebe guy was bascally trying to crack a cult and was getting stopped at every turn.

You can never guage a person how they are portrayed on screen, becaue the filmmaker gets to decide what you see and what you don't. But Billly Mitchell doesn't come off looking so great. One of the best "villains" in a movie in a long time.

I mean, just from the standpoint of a movie, it's amazing how gripping it is, and how much you root for the "good guy" to win.

Highly reccomended if you have even a passing interest in the subject matter.

[Evel KMego]

Love Donkey Kong. I've got DK Jr. down in my game room along with my KISS pinball machine.

[batgirl]

Yeah i loved pacman too, and also space invaders, galaxian. Do you guys remember the portable hand held games of donkey kong, oil panic, etc made by nintendo?I remember at school during recess we would all be behind the buildings madly playing, usually a different one cause we would swap...
Looking out for the teachers cause they were banned and getting busted with one meant CONFISCATION!!!!!!!

[VintageMike]

I remember the handhelds that were made up to look like the actual games. My mom insisted I let one of my cousins have them when he was in the hosptial and I never saw them again, other than Ms. Pac-Man which I still have somewhere.
I remember when Donkey Kong came out.. I was in the fith grade, and my best friend called me saying he had played a new game at one of our hangouts called "Donkey Kong". I remember telling him how stupid that h name was accused him of making it up! I loved DK and in line with trest of my nostalgia I love classic video games. Some the best bargains out there the
classic games compilations they going for 20 bucks.
One on my biggest dreams is to someday have my own game room.

[batgirl]

Oh yeah! My sister had the mini arcade galaxian, and she would never let me play it. i had to do it on the sly.........
But thats ok i, wouldnt let her use my electronic mini pinball machine.....
To have a games room with all the good old stuff would be great, with , of course, a jukebox with all the classic tunes!!!

[huedell]

I remember telling him how stupid that the name was and accused him of making it up!

Reminds me of one of my favorite FUTURAMA lines...Fry says: "I know that monkey.
His name is Donkey" and the Professor replies:

"Monkeys aren't donkeys. Quit messing with my head!"

[Adam West]

I am feeling really old because I don't remember any handheld games except that Football game (by Coleco maybe) with the little red blips.

That game was the best.