Dude hacks Gender-bent Donkey Kong for his Daughter
Youtube Direktdonkey, via Interweb3000
Bester Papa der Welt: Mike Mika hat für seine dreijährige Tochter Donkey Kong gehackt, damit sie als Pauline den von Kong entführten Mario retten kann. Sowas gab’s schonmal vor ein paar Wochen mit Zelda, der Hack hier ist aber ‘ne Spur runder.
My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She’s played as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn’t in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else am I supposed to do?
Now I’m up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline. I’m using the 2010 NES Donkey Kong ROM. I’ve redrawn Mario’s frames and I swapped the palettes in the ROM. I replaced the M at the top with a P for Pauline.
Und wo wir grade bei feministischen Game-Kram sind: Die erste Folge von Damsel in Distress ist da, eine kickstarter-finanzierte Webserie von Anita Sarkeesian, die sich für diese Aktion von nicht wenigen Deppen gemobbt wurde. Das Thema ist wichtig und eine Webserie dazu überfällig, leider ist das Video ein bisschen langweilig. Ansehen sollte man sich das Ding dennoch, hier das Tumblelog dazu.
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Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization
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The Secret History of Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong is perhaps the greatest outsider game of all time. It broke all the rules because its creator, the now-legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, didn't know them to begin with. It not only launched the career of gaming's most celebrated creative mind, it gave birth to the jump-and-run platform genre as we know it, and established Nintendo as perhaps the industry's longest standing superpower.
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Donkey Kong-Regal
Tolles Donkey Kong-Regal von Igor Chak, dessen Space Ivaders-Couch ich hier von ein paar Jahren mal hatte. Gibt’s leider nicht zu kaufen, kann man aber mit ein bisschen Geschick bestimmt selber basteln (solange es hinterher nicht so aussieht). Dazu stellt man sich dann noch diesen drölltaufendsten NES-Controller-Tisch ins Wohnzimmer und alles wird pixelig. (via DrLiMa)
Fantastic Four im Donkey Kong-Remix
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Anthony Vukojevich covers Fantastic Four 26 (via Laughing Squid)
Mortal Kombat vs. Donkey Kong
(Youtube Direkt, via Feingut)
Neulich hatten Pacmans Geister keine Chance gegen Sonic, heute hat Donkey Kong keine Chance gegen Scorpion aus Mortal Kombat.
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What went wrong?
The donkey kong-cabinets became self aware.
Gniihihiii…
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