Donkey Kong... the Lost Level?

If you've never played the original arcade version of Nintendo's 1981 classic Donkey Kong, you might think the game only has 3 different levels. Most of the home ports skipped the Cement Factory stage (aka the Pie Factory). And even in the arcade, you have to work a bit to make it to the rarely-seen fourth level. Let's check it out together!

#Shorts 7

[vectorbeam]

When I was a kid, our local pizza place had a "Crazy Kong" arcade cabinet, the Nintendo licensed alternate version of the game manufactured by Falcon. It has some weird variations to it of both sound and graphics, but the cement factory appears much sooner in the game. Otherwise, I might've never seen it or known about it until much later in life.

[JaredGonzales-gvyh]

I played the Japanese version on an emulator so I remembered this one

[Danyplaysboblox]

Fun fact: Nintendo Of Europe didn’t forgot about the cement factory. How? In 2011, DK NES was on the virtual console on the Wii, and if you play DK NES on your Wii (MAKE SURE ITS PAL, NOT NTSC) guess what? The cement factory has returned!

[tait]

It's not lost! Anyone who's ever actually played DK in any serious capacity has been to the pie factory.

[RetroGamingNook]

If you stack all the stages on top of each other they build a sky scraper.

[SamanthaMunitz]

This is NOT a lost level. Its always been in the original 1981 Donkey Kong game.

[TubbyTotodile]

Totally played all 4 levels! Thanks to DK64, too!

[standupstar]

Donkey Kong (gb) aka 94' had the cement factory level.

[Earthsstgamer]

The Atari Computer 400/800 cart has that level.That DK machine looks to be in great shape congrats!

[DominicDAcciaro-ykrb]

The original edition nes version has the cement factory the Atari 2600 remake has all four levels

[joystickricksherrell]

Oh yeah! I know I'm going to have a decent game when I get to the cement stage. From there it's all butter.

[LITTLE]

Such a shame no home port, even the NES version, has the second level.

Only exception is Donkey Kong 64, which has the original arcade release.

[averyfinatic]

There is a version of the NES that has the second level known as Donkey Kong Original Edition, despite it not having everything from the original game, it was still okay in my opinion

[matiasdonatelli]

That level isnt on the family computer?

[SleepDeprivedGinger]

Cement factory… :0 Mario’s Cement Factory is connected to Donkey Kong?!

[FJV]

My ATARI 800XL in the mid-80s had all 4 levels…arcade perfect…including The Pie Factory.

[Brodie]

I can't even get passed the first level

[gilavalos]

So the pie stage isn't part of the mandala effect😮

[mainps]

I played this game for years I'm surprised no one has revised this game!! I know there's Donkey Kong Junior 2 but that's not the same

[metalfreak]

DK64 introduced me the pie level or cement factory before I played the NES version and the actual arcade game