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Your first introduction to the 1981 Donkey Kong arcade game?

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Rev John:
I never played Donkey Kong until approx 2000 when there was a machine in the sandwich shop where my sister had started working.  (I grew up in Australia and not in a major city, although we did have an arcade ~1983 with Asteroids, Pac-Man, Defender, Terra Cresta, Space Invaders...)

I lost my lives quickly on level 1 and would have gotten a very low score.  So it gave me a bad impression and I didn't drop a second coin.  Years later when I read "Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World" it mentions some guy who was loving playing DK and had gotten through a few levels and I thought 'wow he must be really skilled!'   ;D  Apart from MAME I don't think I played an actual DK arcade machine again until AKO3.  Cheers all!

Dallas Taylor:
I've told this story in relation to Junior, so apologies if you've heard it before.

We were latchkey kids in the 80s. So, during the summer, when mom left for work, we were to stay indoors until dad got home. Mom left for work at about 9am.

We had two places within about a 10-minute bike ride from the house. There was 7-11 on one corner and a similar family-owned store called Pete's Liquor across the street. They would often send me to fetch milk, bread, candy bars... whatever we wanted/needed at the time. So when these stores started rotating video games through, I started playing them.

At the time, I had a paper route. At that age, I had more money than I knew what to do with (what a problem to have). So during the summer, I would get up around 7 and haul ass down the road to get my daily gaming in. 7-11 brought Donkey Kong in seemingly not long after it became a hit in the arcades. I believe that the first time I played it was at our Skate World skating rink, but I really put time into it when 7-11 had it. Unfortunately, 7-11 rotated their games once or twice a year, so it was relatively short lived. Not long after Donkey Kong left 7-11 though, Pete's got Donkey Kong Junior, and a lifelong sickness was discovered.

Mario500:

--- Quote from: Dallas Taylor on November 24, 2024, 06:23:07 pm ---I've told this story in relation to Junior, so apologies if you've heard it before.

We were latchkey kids in the 80s. So, during the summer, when mom left for work, we were to stay indoors until dad got home. Mom left for work at about 9am.

We had two places within about a 10-minute bike ride from the house. There was 7-11 on one corner and a similar family-owned store called Pete's Liquor across the street. They would often send me to fetch milk, bread, candy bars... whatever we wanted/needed at the time. So when these stores started rotating video games through, I started playing them.

At the time, I had a paper route. At that age, I had more money than I knew what to do with (what a problem to have). So during the summer, I would get up around 7 and haul ass down the road to get my daily gaming in. 7-11 brought Donkey Kong in seemingly not long after it became a hit in the arcades. I believe that the first time I played it was at our Skate World skating rink, but I really put time into it when 7-11 had it. Unfortunately, 7-11 rotated their games once or twice a year, so it was relatively short lived. Not long after Donkey Kong left 7-11 though, Pete's got Donkey Kong Junior, and a lifelong sickness was discovered.

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(suggestion: never curse thy self (or any other self))

muscleandfitness:
I first played NES when Mario came out ,then SNES wow what a game, Before this i had a orange dk handheld watch game of dk played it a lot then i lost it down the track somewhere. My son introduced me to a movie kok where 2 men Fourt it out of being the best donkey Kong player in the world. Ever since that movie i was in love with the game and started to build a dk cab of my own. Red as its know today. then i decided to go to America and play in a Kong off in 2012 and again in 2013 where I met people from all over the world especially the dk community and all of my USA mates. And i have never looked back now i own 2 dks and 4 other cabs and 2 on the way. Today my high score is 992900 and i have 12 kill screens. OH and i was the first Ever Australian to ever ks a original dk cab in Australia. <Allen> <Allen> <Allen> <Allen> <Roy> <Roy> <Kuh> <Wiebe> <Walter> <Sanders> <Mruczek> thats it for me BYE For now..

mattbuc16:
Pretty sure the first time I played was at a local convenience store at the edge of the neighborhood I grew up in.  I was with my dad and asked if I could have a quarter to play.  Thankfully people still had change on them back in those days, so he gave me quarter and I ... am fairly certain I didn't make it to the end of 1-1.  It's crazy because I specifically recall being thrilled to be all the way up to the top hammer level ... on the right side of the screen.  It was disappointing and exhilarating all in one.  Sadly, that's been replaced now that I'm "good" with mostly disappointing.  But it's a fond memory of the game and of my dad.

PS. Machine was near the front of the store.  Pretty sure it was just left of the door ... but I might be remembering where the Track & Field was for sure.

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