wow, it is kinda unexpected that both Mario and Donkey Kong started in the same game. and that in first Donkey Kong game, the main mario was the main character.

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technothrasher 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Hard to be unexpected for the many of us who lived it. It wasn't that long ago. I remember first seeing a ColecoVison, which shipped with Donkey Kong, and being amazed that, unlike on the Atari 2600, the home version of Donkey Kong actually looked very close to the arcade version.

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pipes 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Was he called jump man at that point or am I misremembering this?

	▲	ido 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		He did, as is stated in the article.

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rjsw 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could run the original game in Mame.

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rusk an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…

	▲	rk06 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		it is not a secret but very unexpected. when I heard of donkey kong, it was in context of donkey kong franchise which obviously feature Donkey Kong as main character just like mario is main character of mario games. so technically first Donkey Kong game in Donkey Kong series is actually a Mario game. i understand why and how it happened. but this is a trivia that you either know or you would not believe from untrusted sources