This article is a follow-up to my Donkey Kong on Atari article published in Issue 31 of this magazine. That article was limited to home versions of Donkey Kong released for Atari systems during the commercial life of the systems, so no homebrew versions or versions for other consoles were covered. This article will explore those additional ports, from the original releases to newer homebrews. If you’d like to read more about the history of the arcade game, I recommend you refer back to my original article. Having said that, let’s start covering more of that pesky gorilla…
Given the limitations of Coleco’s version of Donkey Kong, two homebrew programmers took it upon themselves to develop improved versions of the game for the 2600. The first homebrew port, D.K. VCS, was released by Joe Musashi in 2012. This port takes a unique approach by only having part of each screen show….
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