The LOST Donkey Kong NES Games

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Kicking off Nintendo November, Jah discusses 2 lost and mysterious NES/Famicom titles that starred the Big N’s great ape, Donkey Kong, along with other early Famicom games.

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[greatestutuberhd]

Junior was in one of the Mario Tennis games. After that we don't know what happened to him

[BringMayFlowers]

DK is definitely playing a bass there. You can tell because it's a violin so big it's taller than a fully grown gorilla.

[smashers]

Canonically the modern Donkey Kong is confirmed to be Cranky’s grandson with Jr. implied to be his father, with Cranky referring to the modern Donkey Kong as his son in DK64 being him going senile.

As for what happened to Jr. considering that he was more of the focus during the NES era and even was one of the original racers in Mario kart (With an Adult design none the less) it’s possible that he just quietly retired and left the title of Donkey Kong to his own son leading into DKC.

[EWARS_]

Woah, these are incredibly obscure, hadn't heard of these two before. Thanks for covering this!

[supermakermatic]

I'm more inclined to believe the Donkey Band music was unauthorised than simply having the license lost. If you're familiar with 70s and - to a lesser extent - 80s Nintendo games, you would know that Nintendo borrowed concepts all the time back then, sometimes even passing into copyright infringement territory. A majority of Nintendo's games prior to DK were blatant Galaxian clones, the black box lineup is chocked full of clones ranging from creative (Clu Clu Land and Devil World as Pac-Man) to unapologetic (Balloon Fight as Joust), and a lot of Nintendo's most enduring and senior characters have pretty clear pop culture inspirations (DK = King Kong, Duck Hunt Dog = Muttley). In the case of music, Punch-Out's title music is a Gillette jingle; Donkey Kong's intro is from Dragnet; and Zelda had to have its title screen made very quickly because they didn't realise the song they wanted was still under copyright. It's an interesting contrast to the protective and innovation-obsessed modern day Nintendo, not unlike how Walt Disney's first cartoon character, Julius, was just Felix the Cat with a white belly.

[youzepic]

I’ve been here since your Best Sonic Comic video and I’ve stayed because you bring things like this to light that are both intresting and deserving of research put into them. Also this game might’ve been planned to be ported in the US as there was a new NES games to come report someone talked about in the video. It was seemed to be mistranslated bringing up Donkey Kong four so this could be Early Country or maybe even this. After all the prototype was far enough in Nintendo’s eyes to give screen shots to magazines.

[Marchers]

6:39-6:42 I like to imagine that Junior became Funky Kong.

[MapleMilk]

I think anything from the early Famicom library is immensely interesting

Even thinking about what a 1983 adventure game would've looked like is fascinating

I assume a rudimentary arcade style game kinda like tower of duraga or maybe atari adventure or something

But if you look into the memory constraints of the console and compare it to the contemporary consoles, it's shocking how much character Nintendo and HAL got out of those extremely limited carts

Even seeing a unique sprite of Donkey Kong holding a bass blew my mind

[MaxOakland]

5:20 Super Mario Bros was originally titled Mario's Adventure. Maybe that was the adventure game. Or maybe it was a port of the Atari 2600 game Adventure

[zyndrolith]

1:55 theres an image in the mario paint manual of mario playing a keyboard that u should’ve used as the 4th image
other than that great video 👌

[eyeball]

DK isn't playing guitar, that's an upright bass.

[SmokeChoked]

Kinda surprising that Mr. Video being a simply reusable character for whenever didn't pan out. Because he got his own franchise, but not necessarily his own character depending on how you look at it.

[lepacs]

3:08 Funny thing about Seiko Matsuda. This is from the Wikipedia article on her.
"Her father was a government official at the Ministry of Health and Welfare and her mother was from a family of former village heads from Yame. She is a descendant of Kamachi Akimori of the Kamachi clan, the lords of Yanagawa Castle who were the most powerful feudal lords in Chikugo Province in the service of the Ōtomo clan in the Sengoku period." Which means Nintendo considered getting music from a Nepo Baby when they had so many amazing options.

[MrConnman]

DK Jr is a separate character, he's playable in Mario Tennis and was going to be playable in Mario Kart Double Dash before being replaced by Diddy.
Nintendo just kinda forgot about him.

[eklipsed]

Whoooo! Nintendo November. I really liked this video, and I also learned a lot from it. Thanks for going into depth on the topic and not just putting something out. Anyways great vid

[JACDGK]

Technically DK Jr. is the DK from Donkey Kong Country if you are going based off the Super Mario Bros. Movie from last year where they became the same character. At least it made a million times more since than making Charlie Nash and Blanka the same.

[JSRphones]

I wonder if that legal kerfuffle with ITC was the reason why we never saw more Donkey Kong.

In a nutshell: Ikegami Tsushinki Co., or ITC, were the main people who programmed the original Donkey Kong. They were never credited, though a signature from them was included in the code. Nintendo later got someone else to reverse-engineer the code and made Donkey Kong Junior off of it, and they were sued by ITC. I don't know anything more about this case though.

[pigs]

After a couple of drinks, DK Jr. Math is the greatest party game of all time.

[johneygd]

In the flyer you showed, mario was called “little mario”, but he actually was called “mario” in donkeykong jr in june of 1982.
Also he was first always called jumpman, the name mr video was nothing more then just an idea.
Also the idea of an actual sequel to donkeykong with his return, on the famicom is already old news.
I already knew this for years.
Well that music game of donkeykong may be cancled but in donkeykong 64 you do see those kongs rocking on the music so that’s that🤣

[ECartmanist]

Could the "Adventure" game just be the Artai Adventure