(And also its lesser ’80s sequels.Donkey Kong 94 is a classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game released in 1994, starring the beloved characters Donkey Kong and Mario. episode we keep talking about but not actually posting.ĭirect download | Retronauts on iTunes | Retronauts on LibsynĮpisode description: We put together a classic Retronauts lineup (Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt, and Chris Kohler) to discuss the history of an all-time arcade classic: Donkey Kong. It's like the old days, except better!Īnd now that this is out of the way, maybe we can get on with the New Super Mario Bros. And there are many dumb jokes, goofy remarks, and gross misstatements fact-checked in real-time. We'll get to those other topics some other day, don't you worry, but this time it was all about the original and its direct follow-ups.įittingly for such a classic topic, we assembled a classic old-school Retronauts lineup by summoning Chris Kohler and Ray Barnholt to join the conversation.

Just Donkey Kong, the arcade sequels, and a few odds and ends of home releases. Not about the Country reboots or the sequels and remakes on platforms of the ’90s or beyond. To wit: this episode is specifically about Donkey Kong's arcade era.

We did a sort of broad Kong overview episode back a decade ago in the 1UP.com days, but as is usually the case for topics we revisit years later, this time we go (1) deeper and (2) more granular while being (3) more informed on the subject. That's what we've done this week, looking back at one of the most familiar topics of all: Nintendo's Donkey Kong. While the remit of Retronauts requires us to venture into unfamiliar areas of video game history-it's right there in the name! Retro-nauts, explorers of gaming's past-sometimes it's nice to settle in and chew on a more familiar topic for a while, too. Mission control for retronauts former EIC of 1UP.com and taking dapper (and frogs) back from the Nazis.

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