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Donkey Kong [1981] Classic retro Arcade Video Games MAME ROMs. Video Games Jeux Juegos Videogiochi Videospiele.
An absolutely legendary classic arcade game in which the player takes on the role of Jumpman - who would be renamed 'Mario' and go on to become a gaming legend - and must battle his way to the top of each level to rescue his beloved Pauline; who has been kidnapped by the evil giant ape, Kong.
Jumpman is controlled with a the joystick and the JUMP button and must be jump over and avoid rolling barrels thrown by Kong; jumping over fireballs and cement tubs and avoiding bouncing rivets as he traverses the levels; moving along girders and conveyor belts and utilizing ladders and elevators. For additional points, Jumpman can collect umbrellas, hats, purses and other bonus items that the girl has dropped on her way to the top of the building. The player can also grab a hammer (by jumping up to it) to smash barrels, fireballs, and cement tubs which earns the player additional bonus points. The hammer can only be used for a limited amount of time, however.
On the Girder, Elevator and Conveyor Belt levels, whenever Jumpman reaches Pauline, Donkey Kong will grab her and carry her off to the next higher level. But on the Rivet level, Jumpman must remove all the rivets on each and every floor by running or jumping over them. After all the rivets are removed, Donkey Kong will fall head first onto a stack of girders and be knocked out and then Jumpman and Pauline will be together again for good. The game then starts over again with an increased difficulty level.
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Donkey Kong machines came in one of four different cabinets. Two flavors of upright machines, plus a cabaret, and a cocktail thrown in for good measure. The cocktails and cabarets were mostly black and woodgrain, and not excessively decorated. But the upright versions were. The red upright versions are actually "Radarscope" cabinets that have been factory converted to Donkey Kong. These are fairly rare (even though they were supposed to be the only Donkey Kong machines), and feature slightly different game-play. The blue uprights (which are the most common), are a very rectangular affair, with quite a lot of artwork. They have orange-ish sticker style side-art (with Mario and Kong on them), with control panel, marquee, and monitor bezel graphics to match. This game does not use a standard arcade monitor. It requires a 'Nintendo Compatible' monitor (a normal monitor will display the picture like that of a photographic negative). This simple little monitor change basically launched the entire Nintendo Vs. Unisystem later on. Because only Donkey Kong series games and Vs. titles would work on these monitors (forcing operators to buy conversion kits for those games instead of a competitors game).
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