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!

"This Week in History for May 29-June 4" (article)

Quotations of certain parts of the article:

"The Week in History for May 29-June 4

Aberdeen News

Published 1:00 a.m. CT May 29, 2021"

"June 2

1941: Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

1981: The Japanese video arcade game 'Donkey Kong' made its U.S. debut.

1990: Groton had a golf course for the first time in 48 years.

1997: Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

2012: Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power."