Weirdness: Check Out This Brilliant Donkey Kong Stop-Motion Video

The mind boggles

by Thomas Whitehead Sat 27th Jul 2013

Some YouTube videos dedicated to Nintendo games and franchises cross the boundary from happy enthusiast's amateur efforts to downright impressive, professional-level work. This stop-motion Donkey Kong video certainly fits in the latter category, with a lot of skill and hours no doubt needed to put it all together.

We're not sure you'll ever see a better use of beads and, apparently, over 1500 photos, all to recreate the original arcade NES port of Donkey Kong in all of its glory. It's a masterpiece courtesy of the guizdp channel; it really is a treat.

So check it out below, and don't forget that Donkey Kong is available on the Wii U Virtual Console for $0.30 / €0.30 / £0.30 until 13th August.

[source youtube.com, via kotaku.com]

Tom has been involved in the games industry for over a decade, mostly writing about it or struggling to sell Indie games. Loves reading, writing, hunting Capcom’s fiercest monsters and watching baseball.

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SheldonRandoms
Sat 27th Jul 2013

This is AMAZING!!!!!

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supermage65
Sat 27th Jul 2013

That is seriously cool.

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MakeMyBiscuit
Sat 27th Jul 2013

WOW!!!

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Dark-Luigi
Sat 27th Jul 2013

Now that's some real creativity right there!

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Marioman64
Sat 27th Jul 2013

i love how the high score is "> 9000"

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aaronsullivan
Sat 27th Jul 2013

Nice catch @Marioman64. Very impressive and he took the important step of making "mistakes" and letting it feel hand made. I kind of wish he did something besides slavishly copy the frame by frame of a actual game session BUT if he made all those beads this is a great fun thing to do with it. I have to take off one point for his facial hair grooming strategy however.