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Video: E3: DK King of Swing DS Gameplay
Original at GameVideos
• Mon, Mar 30
Donkey Kong GBA game comes to the DS. gamevideos.1up.com
Video: REDONE Music Mashup: Gangplank GalleonOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Mar 8
By rss@youtube.com (Akuago220) I made a mashup of these songs a long time ago, but I wanted to... Author: Akuago220 Keywords: Donkey Kong Country DK DKC DKC1 Gang Plank Galleon King K. Rool final boss battle ship end of game fight Added: March 8, 2009
Video: Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance Version) - Gang-Plank Galleon ThemeOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Mar 7
By rss@youtube.com (Japancommercials4U2) Since no one posted the GBA version of the theme, I decided to post it. Author: Japancommercials4U2 Keywords: Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance Version) Gang-Plank Galleon Theme King K. Rool Diddy Added: March 7, 2009
Video: Mario's first appearance in cartoons - Donkey King part 2 of 2Original at YouTube
• Tue, Mar 3
By rss@youtube.com (happypranksgiving) An episode of the cartoon Donkey Kong from CBS Saturday Supercade.... Author: happypranksgiving Keywords: mario bros donkey kong cartoon cbs saturday supercade Added: March 3, 2009
Video: Donkey Kong Country Walkthrough World4 part1Original at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 4
By rss@youtube.com (Ragingmango98) Author: Ragingmango98 Keywords: Donkey Kong Country Walkthrough playthrough world kremling bananas monkey kong diddy cranky candy funky king rool Added: February 4, 2009
Video: The King of Kong 2: Judgement DayOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Jan 4
By rss@youtube.com (1Jesdotus) King of Kong 2 Trailer Steve Wiebe's destiny is far from over. Destined to set a Donkey Kong world record in 2024, a warrior has been sent back in time to protect Steve from a robotic Billy Mitchell.
Video: Donkey Kong Country - Kong Fu part 3Original at Google Video
• Tue, Mar 18
Unknown length - 2008-03-18 During the Donkey Kong Challange, Kong Fu challanges DK and if DK loses then he would no longer be ruler of Kongo Bongo and Turn the Crystal Coconut over to King K. Rool
Video: Donkey Kong Country - I Spy With My Hairy Eye Part 3Original at Google Video
• Tue, Mar 18
Due to popular request from a bunch of users, I am finally uploading my second DKC episode of youtube. In this episode, Diddy uses the Crystal Coconut to become invisible, but while Diddy's invisible, King K. Rool builds a Robot clone of Candy to steal the coconut. Now they must get the coconut...
On my way to E3, it's going to be a busy week
Original at San Jose Mercury News
• Sun, May 31
MiamiHerald.com USA I can't wait to see if Steve Wiebe, of The King of Kong fame, can set the world record in Donkey Kong. If he can, he'll have $10001 in quarters (pictured above). That's a lot of trips to the arcade. chiltonst17: "the only vertan missions i havnt done ...
Pre-E3 09: The big important to-do list
Original at Destructoid
• Thu, May 28
Florida Steve Wiebe, the plucky Donkey Kong world record contender who shot to stardom after appearing in The King of Kong, will be at E3 in an attempt to reclaim the Donkey Kong World Record. Of course, where there is Steve Wiebe, there is also Nicole Wiebe, ...
Crazy Monkey Spin
Original at Pocket Gamer
• Wed, May 27
UK More precisely, Donkey Kong in the game Donkey Kong: King of Swing (the one where you jump a spinning DK from one wooden peg to another in order to collect bananas). Of course, there are differences between the two games, but you can't deny the ...
The hotlist: We reveal the most popular computer games
Original at Daily Mail - UK
• Fri, May 22
Created by Nintendo in 1981, the company was sued by Universal Films who claimed Donkey Kong was a copy of King Kong. Nintendo lawyers discovered that ... and more »
Retro Gaming + E3 2009 = $10001
Original at beefjack.com
• Mon, May 18
UK If you're wondering where you might know the name from, it's because he was the 'star' of “The King of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters”, the documentary about the struggle to achieve the Donkey Kong high score. (Now do you understand why it's 4004 quarters ...
The beat of a new drum for the jungle king
Original at The Kingston Whig-Standard
• Sat, May 16
• 1 related articles
Donkey Kong: Jungle Beatis the third game to be released in Nintendo's New Play Control line of re-mastered classics from the GameCube era --Mario Power TennisandPikminwere released back in March -- and like the other products in the series, ...
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Nintendo Famicom Art Plays On Retro NES Game Themes
Original at Inventorspot
• Fri, May 8
Bush Jr. manages to satirize the 43rd president and pay homage to Donkey Kong Jr. at the same time - quite an achievement! According to Tokyo-based web producer, illustrator and now faux video game designer Hawken King, "On my original sketch, ...
You Cannot Play The George W. Bush Famicom Game
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, May 7
By Brian Ashcraft This year, My Famicase Exhibition is 58 carts strong. Like a lot of art, some of the cartridges are social commentary, and some are even politically charged like Bush Jr. from Tokyo-based British designer Hawken King. In an interesting twist, King has done art direction for Donkey Kong mark...
DK: King of Swing TrailerOriginal at GameSpot
• Fri, May 1
Donkey Kong is swinging all over the place. www.gamespot.com
Trying to best the ‘King'
Original at Daily Cardinal
• Wed, Apr 29
Director Seth Gordon used this universal familiarity with Donkey Kong and his camera crew to his advantage when he created 2007's “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters,” featured at the Memorial Union's Mini-Indie Film Festival over the weekend. ...
King Of Kong update: Steve Wiebe sets a new Donkey Kong Jr. score
Original at A.V. Club
• Wed, Apr 29
Daily Cardinal - Josh Modell, Josh Modell by Josh Modell April 29, 2009 We know that y'all will remain excited forever and ever about who has the highest Donkey Kong score in history: underdog school teacher Steve Wiebe or his arch-nemesis, the long-haired Billy Mitchell. ...
Joystiq visits: FunSpot & The American Classic Arcade Museum
Original at Joystiq
• Tue, Apr 28
Tucked away in a far corner of the room sat the machine made famous by the documentary The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters: Donkey Kong. To our surprise, the top score held by Steve Wiebe was missing from the machine's leaderboard -- later it was ...
Preview: wireway
Original at Destructoid
• Mon, Apr 13
Florida The best way that I can describe wireway is that it is a platformer much like Donkey Kong: King of Swing or carneyvale: Showtime is a platformer. What initially seems a little simple quickly becomes a lot more complex. The first level just involved me ...
Can Steve Wiebe Reclaim His Title of "King of Kong?" Find Out at E3!
Original at NintendoDS Advanced
• Thu, Apr 2
Michigan Okay, so then you know the tale of Steve Wiebe, who was the first person to score over a million points in the original Nintendo arcade classic Donkey Kong. And then he was subsequently beaten by the former record-holder, Billy Mitchell. ...
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Original at Pus2Meong Garage
• Fri, May 9
By pus2meong Oh, there’s very very very short history of Donkey Kong in flash like animated movie. I like this footage,it tell you about Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto who got the idea to create DOnkey Kong, and the meaning of DONKEY KONG title.
The King of Kong and Show Off at MIX08
Original at blogs.msdn.com
• Fri, Mar 28
By mswanson But that's not all. During the attendee party on Wednesday, March 5th at TAO, Steve will attempt to re-claim his Donkey Kong world record. This is a chance to see a master at work. Ed and Walter will be there too, so show up and cheer them on!
DVD Review: The King Of Kong (A Fistful Of Quarters)
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Feb 14
By Chris McVetta I was raised on classic video games: Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and (yes) Donkey Kong. So no one was more intrigued by the pseudo-documentary, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, than I, a Generation-X enthusiast who has fallen by the arcade-gaming wayside. Although King of Kong delive...
DVD Review: King of Kong - Fistful of Quarters
Original at Blogcritics
• Fri, Feb 1
By Matt Paprocki So few are aware of the world of competitive video games. No, not the massive MLG tournaments where the competitors go after thousands of dollars in prizes. This is the small time, the retro gaming world of high scores, no pay, and nothing but the glory of having your name in print. King of Kong i...
Who's the real king of 'Kong?'
Original at MSNBC
• Thu, Aug 16
Steve Wiebe's efforts to earn the high score in "Donkey Kong" — and his struggle to be recognized by his video-gaming peers — is chronicled in the new film “The King of Kong,” which is set to release on August 17.
Billy Mitchell ain't no 'son of a gun,' ex-champ speaks on King of KongOriginal at Joystiq
• Thu, May 31
By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Arcade, Culture, Competitive Gaming, PoliticsBilly "Video Game Player of the Century" Mitchell has broken his silence, speaking out against the documentary The King of Kong, which casts the former Donkey Kong high score holder as the film's villain. "I guess they paint me...
Joystiq review: The King of Kong (film)Original at Joystiq
• Tue, May 1
By James Ransom-Wiley Filed under: Arcade, Culture, Features, Reviews, Competitive GamingTruth is stranger than fiction. And while it needs to be threaded by a capable hand, even Donkey Kong can be woven into a compelling canvas that examines the comically-profound idiosyncrasies that drive human compet...
SXSW Review: The King of Kong
Original at Cinematical
• Sat, Mar 17
By Scott Weinberg The story in a nutshell: Back in the mid-80s, a video game mega-guru named Billy Mitchell set the all-time world record for Donkey Kong. (Donkey Kong, you'll remember, is the game in which Mario made his debut while trying to rescue the princess from a grumpy giant ape.) Mitchell's record re...
The Giant Best Buy Sale
Original at Kotaku
• Sun, Feb 25
By Mike Fahey GameCube 1.99 GBA Banjo Pilot 1.99 GBA Donkey Kong Country 3 1.99 GBA King Kong 1.99 GBA Mario Party Advance 1.99 GBA Namco Museum 50th 4.99 GBA Mario And Luigi 4.99 GBA Mario Tennis: Power tour 4.99 GBA Naruto Ninja Council 9.99 GBA DK King of Swing 9.99 GBA Dr. Mario Puzzle League Nintendo DS Xbox
Nintendo Van Brings Viewtiful DS, WiFi Gaming
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Oct 21
By Brian Crecente Nintendo GameCube Mario Superstar Baseball Super Mario Strikers Mario Party 7 King Kong Nintendo DS Mario Kart DS Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Game Boy Micro/Game Boy Advance SP Mario Tennis Power Tour Donkey Kong King of Swing Donkey Kong Country 3 King Kong