Let's Sperg Let's Sperg Donkey Kong - Journey to the cement factory.

We only had a Commodore Vic-20 when I was a kid so our Donkey Kong clone was Cannonball Blitz, which had see-saws catapult you up to the next level instead of ladders.


The Vic-20 did actually get a licensed port of Donkey Kong via Atarisoft, but I don't remember ever seeing Atarisoft cartridges in the cheap games bin at Woolco (one of the store chains whose locations got bought out when Walmart first expanded to Canada).


That Vic-20 port might look like ass compared to the arcade version but it was hardly the assiest-looking Donkey Kong port considering Coleco got the console rights and intentionally borked the Atari 2600 and Intellivision versions to make their own Colecovision version look good by comparison.


Atari got their revenge on Coleco by getting the North American computer rights (meaning IBM PC, Apple II, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, and Commodore 64 and Vic-20) to Donkey Kong under their Atarisoft label and making the game look as good as each computer platform would allow.
 
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Even though the Atari and Intellivision ports were intentionally bad, they're still not the worst ports of Donkey Kong.
That honor goes to ZX Spectrum port, made by our favorite wackjobs at Ocean Software.
 
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NARPASSWORD said:
Even though the Atari and Intellivision ports were intentionally bad, they're still not the worst ports of Donkey Kong.
That honor goes to ZX Spectrum port, made by our favorite wackjobs at Ocean Software.
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Jesus Christ, that looks like something a serial killer would make.
 
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