Donkey Kong is a brutally difficult game

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:40 pm

I'm not anywhere close to as good at shmups as a lot of people on this board... for a sense of skill, I can at least make it to the last boss in most of the more popular shmups on MAME (or if I can't, I could with a little time). But I'll be damned if I can beat three or so levels in Donkey Kong. It's just killer.

Anyone else have this experience?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:45 pm

I think it's not that hard, but I don't exclusively play shmups all the time.
Maybe you need some practice

May I invite you to join 2Dgaming.net? I'm sure you'll get some inspirations about good non-shmup 2D games there.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:52 pm

Yeah... I don't play much 2D apart from the occasional NES game and lots of shmups, so maybe that's my problem. I'll give it some practice, and also I'm going to check out that site right now.

edit: woah it's like bizarro shmups.com

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:04 pm

Donkey Kong is a mean game. I've completed a whole rotation of stages before, but it just keeps getting harder from there.

Bubble Bobble is another mean game too. It lures you in with a bunch of easy stages, then smacks you in the face with a really hard one.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:14 pm

captpain wrote: edit: woah it's like bizarro shmups.com

2Dgaming.net was created by and for the cool people in this forum, because it seemed there was some demand for a place to talk about 2D gaming in general, not just shmups. That's why it looks similar.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:08 pm

The Japanese version's easier.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:29 pm

King of Kong said it was the hardest game ever so it must be.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:56 pm

I looped it the first time I ever played it on a real cabinet. Playing it on the DS via emulation, it seems a lot harder.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:18 pm

MX7 wrote:I looped it the first time I ever played it on a real cabinet. Playing it on the DS via emulation, it seems a lot harder.

O_O

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:37 pm

I went to the third loop in the arcades in the day, maybe the 4th. But with MAME I can't do anything but I'm playing a crappy joypad. I'm hoping to get a PS3 hori pro for the task sometime soon.

Bubble bobble isn't that hard if you know the cheat in MAME, its about 15 keystrokes on the title screen and gives you all the power ups from the start. You can also do it ingame to immediately get them again after dying. I can get to level 50 with 1 credit regularly. Like any game, those hard levels are only hard when you don't know the system to beat it.

Try Moon patrol, thats absolutely killer towards the end of loop 2.

Marshall banana · Post by **Marshall banana** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:08 am

My first and only experience with Donkey Kong occurred when I was about twelve years old and played Donkey Kong 64. I spent a lot of time in Frantic Factory trying to get the special coin from the arcade machine. =O

This summer I tried to play Donkey Kong on MAME after I watched The King of Kong with Necronopticous, but I didn't play very well; it's hard.

Now I remember how much I want to squirt Capri Sun up Billy Mitchell's nose and punch it.

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:11 am

neorichieb1971 wrote: Bubble bobble isn't that hard if you know the cheat in MAME, its about 15 keystrokes on the title screen and gives you all the power ups from the start. You can also do it ingame to immediately get them again after dying. I can get to level 50 with 1 credit regularly. Like any game, those hard levels are only hard when you don't know the system to beat it.

Yeah, well, I don't like to cheat. ;D

As for Donkey Kong, I first played it when I was really little, like 3-4 years old. Ironically, I think I was better at it then than I am at it now, 14-15 years later. :P

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:56 pm

Oh damn I thought this was about Donkey Kong COUNTRY. Yeah that's a troublesome game in spots.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:08 pm

That game had a lot of annoying leaps of faith and jumping through narrow spike lined gaps.

evil_ash_xero · Post by **evil_ash_xero** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:05 pm

Ceph wrote:I think it's not that hard, but I don't exclusively play shmups all the time.
Maybe you need some practice

May I invite you to join 2Dgaming.net? I'm sure you'll get some inspirations about good non-shmup 2D games there.

You know, you should try to give the 2D forums it's own look a bit. It looks way too much like this forum. I like how it's sorta this page's sister site, but if it looked a bit more original, I think that would be cool.

s/m

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 4:27 pm

I've made it to loop 3. Doesn't seem so bad after a few goes.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:33 pm

it's not difficult - but it is fucking cheap

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:23 pm

There was a cool guy who brought in a modified Donkey Kong cabinet with custom-made art side panels and front marquee that said "Donkey Kong II". It has all new stages for Mario the Jumpman to conquer. It was shown for the entire two days that the 2008 California Extreme show was on. I wonder if Nintendo Co. Ltd. agrees with this Donkey Kong PCB mod? ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

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Donkey Kong is a brutally difficult game

Donkey Kong is a brutally difficult game

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