Donkey Kong (Arcade)

Did this really not get an eu release?

@mariofanatic128 - I'm sure it was
A classic.

While the arcade version of Donkey Kong was undoubtedly superior to the NES release, in all actuality, Nintendo was sitting upon a much better version of NES Donkey Kong, finally revealed on a special edition Wii in 2010, with the missing cement level intact, as well as additional animations never seen before on NES. Appadently, Nintendo had the game finished back in the 80s, but the larger-sized ROM chips required to run the game were too expensive, so Nintendo cut a lot of the fat (and a good bit of meat, too) out of the game code so it would fit the smaller ROM size, hence we got stuck for over twenty years with an inferior port.

Thanks to RetroZone, I now have a repro NES Donkey Kong cart that plays much better than the original. But it makes me really wonder what other lost gems Nintendo may have stashed away in the vault for all these years...

I love Donkey Kong! it's the best Nintendo Game!