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March of 2009

 

Rate Video: E3: DK King of Swing DS Gameplay

Original at GameVideos external link    Mon, Mar 30

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Donkey Kong GBA game comes to the DS. gamevideos.1up.com

Rate Video: REDONE Music Mashup: Gangplank GalleonVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Mar 8

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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

Rate Video: Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance Version) - Gang-Plank Galleon ThemeVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Mar 7

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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

Rate Video: Mario's first appearance in cartoons - Donkey King part 2 of 2Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Mar 3

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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

Year 2009

 

Rate Video: The King of Kong 2: Judgement DayVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Jan 4

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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.

Rate Video: Donkey Kong Country - Kong Fu part 3Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Tue, Mar 18

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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

Rate Video: Donkey Kong Country - I Spy With My Hairy Eye Part 3Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Tue, Mar 18

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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...

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Year 2009

 

Rate King of Swing (DS) - E3 Movie by Gameswelt.deVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Gameswelt external link    Wed, Oct 14

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Mit Donkey Kong geht es in 'DK King of Swing' wild zu und her. Davon zeugt das E3 Movie. gameswelt.de

Rate On my way to E3, it's going to be a busy week

Original at San Jose Mercury News external link    Sun, May 31

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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 ...

Rate Pre-E3 09: The big important to-do list

Original at Destructoid external link    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, ...

Rate Crazy Monkey Spin

Original at Pocket Gamer external link    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 ...

Rate The hotlist: We reveal the most popular computer games

Original at Daily Mail - UK external link    Fri, May 22

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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 »

Rate Retro Gaming + E3 2009 = $10001

Original at beefjack.com external link    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 ...

Rate The beat of a new drum for the jungle king

Original at The Kingston Whig-Standard external link    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, ...

Rate You Cannot Play The George W. Bush Famicom Game

Original at Kotaku external link    Thu, May 7

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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...

Rate Trying to best the ‘King'

Original at Daily Cardinal external link    Wed, Apr 29

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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. ...

Rate King Of Kong update: Steve Wiebe sets a new Donkey Kong Jr. score

Original at A.V. Club external link    Wed, Apr 29

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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. ...

Rate Joystiq visits: FunSpot & The American Classic Arcade Museum

Original at Joystiq external link    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 ...

Rate Preview: wireway

Original at Destructoid external link    Mon, Apr 13

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 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 ...

Rate Can Steve Wiebe Reclaim His Title of "King of Kong?" Find Out at E3!

Original at NintendoDS Advanced external link    Thu, Apr 2

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 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. ...

Rate The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Original at Pus2Meong Garage external link    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.

Rate The King of Kong and Show Off at MIX08

Original at blogs.msdn.com external link    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!

Rate DVD Review: The King Of Kong (A Fistful Of Quarters)

Original at Blogcritics external link    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...

Rate DVD Review: King of Kong - Fistful of Quarters

Original at Blogcritics external link    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...

Year 2007

 

Rate Who's the real king of 'Kong?'

Original at MSNBC external link    Thu, Aug 16

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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.

Rate Billy Mitchell ain't no 'son of a gun,' ex-champ speaks on King of KongVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Joystiq external link    Thu, May 31

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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...

Rate Joystiq review: The King of Kong (film)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Joystiq external link    Tue, May 1

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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...

Rate SXSW Review: The King of Kong

Original at Cinematical external link    Sat, Mar 17

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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...

Rate The Giant Best Buy Sale

Original at Kotaku external link    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

Year 2005

 

Rate Nintendo Van Brings Viewtiful DS, WiFi Gaming

Original at Kotaku external link    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

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