I owned a Gameboy from 1995 to like 2003, and I am upset I never even heard of this game. Looks incredible. Hope Nintendo makes a Donkey Kong Game and Watch with this and others on it.
I remember my friend in school telling me he had the game and how boring and stale it was and that he couldn't even get to the top level (at the time we didn't know that those were recreations of the Donkey-Kong-Arcade, because we didn't have Arcades in Germany). I showed him all the different jumps and things he could do and we breezed through the first four levels. He was amazed after that and then really got into the game, luckily. Honestly one of the greatest games for the Game Boy. I'm still amazed at how versatile the controls are, and how goofy and charmingly detailed everything is for a small Game-Boy-game!
the same thing happened to me with my cousin.. he didn't like this game at all until i showed him what you could do.. really great game, i found it again today after many many years it brings back memories.
I love how it starts out running through each screen of the original Donkey Kong. Then when you knock out the last rivet on what would be the last screen of the original and the victory music starts to play Kong knocks mario off the platform onto his head and runs off with Pauline like "SURPRISE, THIS AINT THE SAME GAME". Then it dumps you into a map screen and the real game starts. Such a great intro.
Agreed. I dunno if you'd call it a "plot twist" but it sure turns the game and the concept on its head. If nothing else, it's one of the greatest segues in a game ever.
Despite the platform and era, Donkey Kong for Gameboy remains to this day one of, if not the best action puzzlers available. To think I bought it expecting it to have only three infinitely cycling stages.
This is a blast from my childhood. Amazing. If you've never played this game, pick up a ROM of it and give it a shot. This was amazing gaming for the GB back then.
Some levels did have a Lemmings-like element to them as you guided a line of toys to the exit, but that was more like one in every 5 or 6 levels or so and not indicative of the whole game experience which had a lot more to offer. All-in-all, an amazingly fun game.
Man I love this game. I got it in the mid 90s thinking it was literally just the arcade game. I’d played the original Donkey Kong on my dad’s friend’s old console of some sort. When level 4 rolled into Big City I was blown away. Then it just keeps doing for like 90 levels that keep expanding in complexity. Such a brilliant time.
This was one of my childhood games, I spent a LOT of time playing this. It probably took me weeks/months to beat it then. I had the Super Game Boy too which enhanced it. I still remember all the tunes and sounds.
I will never forget how world 8 and big DK boss become very frustrating to me,but once i beated it,i was sooo releaved. The graphics are mind blowing for a gameboy with lots of details ,good sound effects and well fitted music,alltrough those new tunes will be not as memberble as those mario games but they are decent those donkeykong tunes.
@Markiegee55 there's no release date for April. Game Boy JP: June 14, 1994 NA: July 22, 1994 EU: September 24, 1994 Nintendo 3DS JP: June 15, 2011 Happy birthday btw
I remember playing this when I was a kid. I never played the arcade so back then I had no clue this was the original donkey kong but greatly expanded to brand new levels and amazing movesets. What an amazing game.
I once completed this in a day. It took me 2 & a half hours from start to finish non-stop & I collected every piece for the bonus roulette where you get extra lives.
I know this coment was two years ago, but today there are things that in the future would be considered classics, like Sonic Mania, Sonic Forces, Super Mario Odyssey and etc.!
thanks, real thanks to you, i found out about that game from my early years. I don't know how to express my gratefuls expressions to you man. I even taunted a friend who says he rocks any mario to this game on an emulator. Hell yeah, many thanks.
I wish this game was remade for Nintendo Switch with Ukiki being the 2 player character I know we already have Mario vs Donkey Kong being remade but this game was a perfect start of the series
Mario must have been very tired having to spend nearly two hours chasing Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong, Jr. through so many worlds so he could rescue Pauline. PS This is an awesome game. It looks like fun and I like the music.
On the black&white GameBoy you'll hear a (simple) end credits tune, but Pauline's screams for help are replaced by a screechy "bleep" sound so you're not missing much. From a graphical point of view, the Super GB version of this game is a lot easier on the eyes, so you made the right choice anyway. ;0)
I didnt know this game was in color. I remember when I was a kid back in the late 90s we had a game boy but this was the only game we had for it. I spent sooo many hours and wasted so many AA batteries tryna beat this game. So many memories!
22:12 ..... My childhood never was to figure that out as a child... ive litterally always wanted to know how it was done... i feel complete now... you use the path to move the gomba.... genius....
This long play is missing Pauline's screams and the end music. Gameboy Donkey Kong is a Super Gameboy game, compatible with Gameboy Color and Gameboy. Super Gameboy features include: preselected color palettes, a special 16-color palette mode, a special border used for display to TV, and an extra (digital) sound channel. You can obviously see the 16-color title screen and preselected level color palettes in this game-- so this is being played on a Super Gameboy or similar. This game also replaces the sound effect for Pauline's scream with a (rather funny) digital tell of Help! and the end music is replaced by digital music. Whatever platform this long play was played on did not handle the digital sound channel as the yell and end music are replaced but nothing plays. (I played the heck outta this game the summer before I went to college.)
When I first played this game, I had already played the NES Donkey Kong on e-Reader for Game Boy Advance and the arcade version at a Dave and Busters. I was well familiar with the game to not expect many surprises. So when I got this game at a flea market, I thought it was just going to be a port of the arcade version. I didn't know of any of Mario's special abilities in this game, so I was just playing it like regular Donkey Kong. You can imagine my surprise when the game didn't reset to the beginning, but instead, I was barely getting started
Now that's an obscene amount of extra lives. You get extra lives for everything here: On the levels, from bonus games, for speedrunning... It gets kind of absurd.
![[TAS] GB Donkey Kong by DrD2k9 in 54:15.44](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GT04nNmfjWY/mqdefault.jpg)
One of the most important portable games ever. A truly portable masterpiece.
So old though...
I owned a Gameboy from 1995 to like 2003, and I am upset I never even heard of this game. Looks incredible. Hope Nintendo makes a Donkey Kong Game and Watch with this and others on it.
The fact that they were able to turn a simple arcade game to a full-on 101-level adventure is freakin amazing
And a nearly 2 hour game on the GB!
Better than the original version
El 94 falta
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I remember my friend in school telling me he had the game and how boring and stale it was and that he couldn't even get to the top level (at the time we didn't know that those were recreations of the Donkey-Kong-Arcade, because we didn't have Arcades in Germany). I showed him all the different jumps and things he could do and we breezed through the first four levels. He was amazed after that and then really got into the game, luckily.
Honestly one of the greatest games for the Game Boy. I'm still amazed at how versatile the controls are, and how goofy and charmingly detailed everything is for a small Game-Boy-game!
It was only detailed if you had the Super game boy, other wise it looked decent with Green and black colors
the same thing happened to me with my cousin.. he didn't like this game at all until i showed him what you could do.. really great game, i found it again today after many many years it brings back memories.
@@theobserver4214 or Game Boy color
I love how it starts out running through each screen of the original Donkey Kong. Then when you knock out the last rivet on what would be the last screen of the original and the victory music starts to play Kong knocks mario off the platform onto his head and runs off with Pauline like "SURPRISE, THIS AINT THE SAME GAME". Then it dumps you into a map screen and the real game starts. Such a great intro.
Agreed. I dunno if you'd call it a "plot twist" but it sure turns the game and the concept on its head. If nothing else, it's one of the greatest segues in a game ever.
That was my exact experience with it. I thought it was just the arcade game. It was mind blowing.
This game is still so adorable and charming!
Despite the platform and era, Donkey Kong for Gameboy remains to this day one of, if not the best action puzzlers available.
To think I bought it expecting it to have only three infinitely cycling stages.
This game... so many memories
17:05 "Screw the rules, you ain't trappin' me!"
I just laughed so hard! How the f*ck did it?!?
Hahaha
Probably the most underrated game ever made
This is a blast from my childhood. Amazing.
If you've never played this game, pick up a ROM of it and give it a shot. This was amazing gaming for the GB back then.
This is the greatest masterpiece ever made!
3:48 - and so, they lived happily ev- huh? HEY, WAIT A MINUTE?!
And so, the Mario Vs. Donkey Kong series was born
Until it was reworked into a Lemmings Clone.
Some levels did have a Lemmings-like element to them as you guided a line of toys to the exit, but that was more like one in every 5 or 6 levels or so and not indicative of the whole game experience which had a lot more to offer.
All-in-all, an amazingly fun game.
@Danielle Smith you need to chill the fuck out
@@robbiewalker2831 There's only the original Donkey and this remake.
Your first attempt on 5-10 cracked me up. :P
Man I love this game. I got it in the mid 90s thinking it was literally just the arcade game. I’d played the original Donkey Kong on my dad’s friend’s old console of some sort. When level 4 rolled into Big City I was blown away. Then it just keeps doing for like 90 levels that keep expanding in complexity. Such a brilliant time.
3:48 Donkey Kong: "HA! You thought it was over, didn't you?!"
Jailon Thomas
Yep.......nope. We’re just getting started.
El Final De La Versión De Arcade
This game features gameplay elements from Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Super Mario Bros. 2.
@Marie Valme Mario vs Donkey Kong is the sequel to this game. This game did it first.
Ahhhh, the star game of the Super Game Boy when that came out. Such fine memories
This was one of my childhood games, I spent a LOT of time playing this. It probably took me weeks/months to beat it then. I had the Super Game Boy too which enhanced it. I still remember all the tunes and sounds.
I will never forget how world 8 and big DK boss become very frustrating to me,but once i beated it,i was sooo releaved.
The graphics are mind blowing for a gameboy with lots of details ,good sound effects and well fitted music,alltrough those new tunes will be not as memberble as those mario games but they are decent those donkeykong tunes.
When I got this game when I was young I could not get over it was more than the original donkey kong. My fave game back then.
I love the rhythmical sounds Mario does when he walks. I'm glad they kept that from the original game.
1:40:08 - Epic fight music!!
1:41:50 - MEGA EPIC FIGHT MUSIC!!
My father beat this game back in the day, I was too young to pull of the acrobatics required in the later levels^^
Ah... those funny cutscenes i just simply love them awesome play !
8D
Hard to believe this game's 20 years old!
i got this game back in 99
25* next month June 14.
@Markiegee55 I wasn't alive then.
@Markiegee55 there's no release date for April. Game Boy
JP: June 14, 1994
NA: July 22, 1994
EU: September 24, 1994
Nintendo 3DS
JP: June 15, 2011
Happy birthday btw
Well now it's 25
One of the rare examples where they took the original and improved upon it in every way.
I love how it starts out old school then turns into a big adventure
I love this game so much!
And many years later, Pauline becomes the mayor of the Big City and is one of the greatest singers of the century.
*The End*
Thanks again for another awesome longplay Cubex55
This game is incredible and its soundtrack is amazing !!
I remember playing this when I was a kid. I never played the arcade so back then I had no clue this was the original donkey kong but greatly expanded to brand new levels and amazing movesets. What an amazing game.
Thank You Mario! But Pauline is in Another Castle!
Thank You, but Pauline still singing in the city.
Adam
One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the upload, cubex55.
one of my favorite games, love the level design
I once completed this in a day. It took me 2 & a half hours from start to finish non-stop & I collected every piece for the bonus roulette where you get extra lives.
I had this game for the original Gameboy and is one of all time favorites for the Gameboy. It's now available for the 3-DS in the E-shop.
This is one of the best games ever made on Gameboy
yup. this and links awakening
Hahaha that Yolo jump at 5-10... nailed it!
Nice to see the game boy version of Donkey Kong starts up with the classic original Donkey Kong with the pie factory level in there as well
I know this coment was two years ago, but today there are things that in the future would be considered classics, like Sonic Mania, Sonic Forces, Super Mario Odyssey and etc.!
The music on those tower levels was boss!
13:42 oh look now we’re playing donkey Kong junior
fav donkey kong game
totoriole stage
intro 1:50
level 1-1 2:05
level 1-2 2:29
level 1-3 2:58
level 1-boss1/1 3:21
fake ending 3:40
totoriole complit 4:00
thanks, real thanks to you, i found out about that game from my early years. I don't know how to express my gratefuls expressions to you man. I even taunted a friend who says he rocks any mario to this game on an emulator. Hell yeah, many thanks.
I wish this game was remade for Nintendo Switch with Ukiki being the 2 player character
I know we already have Mario vs Donkey Kong being remade but this game was a perfect start of the series
This the game I grew up with playing 24/7 on my purple game boy.
The games like a movie with the music and sound effects!
Stage 9-8: Dat music...
Look up the GaMetal DK 94 9-8 version on youtube
I remembering beating this game. I never felt more proud of myself.
I have this on my 2DS and this is probably my favorite Game Boy game
I used to have this game. I only ever completed it once though. Man some of those later levels were a pain.
tht was the best game back then like, lasted ages and was well fun
Donkey Kong Sr. really didn't think this through, did he?
Maybe that's why he's so Cranky...
LOL i get it XD
This is dk jr
@@ELIASZZambrano So I guess the baby gorilla is Donkey Kong the 3rd then.
Sonicking917 yes
Haven't seen this game in like 5 years!
It was pretty tough and long! but fun game
This has to be the strangest version of mario. Dude doing crazy stunts lol
Mario in the original arcade is considered to be the weakest version of Mario game because he isn't in his prime yet.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 my bad guy, I meant strangest. Fucking auto correct.
World Of Longplays You Are EPIC!!!!!!!!!
Also...
3:47 - Your quest is only beginning!
I just tried this game a week ago to see what all the fuss was about, and now I get it. Superb game.
Mario must have been very tired having to spend nearly two hours chasing Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong, Jr. through so many worlds so he could rescue Pauline.
PS This is an awesome game. It looks like fun and I like the music.
Not to mention doing a buttload of acrobatics and puzzle solving to get a ridiculously big key in every stage, that's determination
This game was so great... so many levels too
On the black&white GameBoy you'll hear a (simple) end credits tune, but Pauline's screams for help are replaced by a screechy "bleep" sound so you're not missing much.
From a graphical point of view, the Super GB version of this game is a lot easier on the eyes, so you made the right choice anyway. ;0)
This game is a piece of cake to me
Thumbs up if you thought this game was unbeatable when you were a kid.
Donkey Kong's Gameboy Version has a LOT more stages than the original Arcade version. That surprises me!
I didnt know this game was in color. I remember when I was a kid back in the late 90s we had a game boy but this was the only game we had for it. I spent sooo many hours and wasted so many AA batteries tryna beat this game. So many memories!
The Nostalgia is real!
22:12 ..... My childhood never was to figure that out as a child... ive litterally always wanted to know how it was done... i feel complete now... you use the path to move the gomba.... genius....
This long play is missing Pauline's screams and the end music.
Gameboy Donkey Kong is a Super Gameboy game, compatible with Gameboy Color and Gameboy. Super Gameboy features include: preselected color palettes, a special 16-color palette mode, a special border used for display to TV, and an extra (digital) sound channel.
You can obviously see the 16-color title screen and preselected level color palettes in this game-- so this is being played on a Super Gameboy or similar. This game also replaces the sound effect for Pauline's scream with a (rather funny) digital tell of Help! and the end music is replaced by digital music. Whatever platform this long play was played on did not handle the digital sound channel as the yell and end music are replaced but nothing plays.
(I played the heck outta this game the summer before I went to college.)
There was end music on the GB version, just it was unemulated for awhile.
When I first played this game, I had already played the NES Donkey Kong on e-Reader for Game Boy Advance and the arcade version at a Dave and Busters. I was well familiar with the game to not expect many surprises. So when I got this game at a flea market, I thought it was just going to be a port of the arcade version. I didn't know of any of Mario's special abilities in this game, so I was just playing it like regular Donkey Kong. You can imagine my surprise when the game didn't reset to the beginning, but instead, I was barely getting started
3:48 Donkey Kong said, “I am NOT going classic anymore!!!”
Sorry, Mario, but this is only the beginning...
In stage 5-10 I used a glitch to get the key right next to the door. ^^ Glad to see what you build here ^^
Played this game as a kid, it was pretty fun.
Thnx this really helped.
I was stuck on lvl 3-6
and if you are the man who did the megaman 3 longplay, i give praises to you !
Wow. It took this guy nearly 2 hours to beat what took me a month or two as a child.
Wow, i remember this from back in the day... such a classic.
Man, I've never seen a plumber dash so fast through an open door.
Damn, this soundtrack gets underestimated. Especially the chase music after you clear a "Donkey Kong" stage.
Best class draft ever
Canton, OH yeah
Interesting fact: the beat is used in both stages Jungle and Rocky Valley. But different melodies.
I grew up with Mario vs. Donkey Kong. I never knew this game existed!
Lol. In the intro, they say he's Mario instead of Jumpman.
Use to play this game religiously when I was younger.
I remember my buddy and I would take turns clearing stages on my gameboy pocket at school/recess yard.
Yo Nintendo needs to make a remake mario odyssey was close but I barely found out about this game today and them jump moves had me hyped no lie
Mario's gotta go fast
3:48
DK:MARIO! DO YOU THINK IT'S OVER? IT'S NOT OVER YET!!!
Nothing like a classic game to make you remember that you could NEVER BEAT 2-7 on this game XD
play this game alot when I was a Kid :D
Now that's an obscene amount of extra lives. You get extra lives for everything here: On the levels, from bonus games, for speedrunning... It gets kind of absurd.
+White Heart The gameboy versions were very forgiving
Well, if it's your first time playing the game, then this is ESPECIALLY a good idea for that type of person!
The final boss is so cool^^
3:50: "NOW WAIT JUST A MINUTE! WE AIN'T ENDIN' IT LIKE THAT AGAIN!"
Still the best handheld game.
That was an ARCADE classic.
As a kid, I found this game extremely hard. The farthest that I ever got with it was the "Ship" stages.
How do you get Mario to close the door when you complete a level? I remember doing it a few times but you're able to do it every time it seems
This game is alright. I like the novelty of it, but I got bored after 30 levels or so.
Why are there only 6 videos playing the Game Boy Color?