Donkey King for the Radio Shack Color Computer.

[ImpossibleCarl69]

kkkk donkey king country returnis

[Soulcorruptr]

I remember this, alongside other knock off titles like "the quest to find thelda". Good times, got my start in programming just keying in program listings in rainbow magazine for the games.

[Tza11rus]

How far up can you climb?

[marlinlee]

@Tza11rus If you mean how far can I get in the game my all time high score is 72,200 points. But I can't get anywhere near that now.

[MrJdiffend]

I had this game, it was awesome! I don't think I made it to the fourth screen very much though, it was pretty difficult in places. I still have the original disk.

[dallase1]

This is the only Donkey Kong Home Version where they put the hammers in the correct place.

[GlNGERBREAD]

i bet this guy lives in a cave and when he feels horny he gets his bassball bat and clubs a girl before dragging her back to his cave. lol get yourself xbox live man

[SuperDave341]

@GlNGERBREAD another xbox fanboy....

[kurisux]

Geeze, the color pallet the game used is beautiful.

Honestly, yes, I have to say, this looks to be an incredible clone / port (what is the difference but licensing, indeed the other "real" home ports were just copies, not actual code ports), and honestly, looks like it would play fine.

Awesome.

[wrestletube1]

Apparently the was eventually changed to just The King.

[scir91]

great review. this is nice gameplay. i like the sound effects too.

[sinistermoon]

This for sure looks good! Way awesome!

[iimustang]

Once you have landed, quickly flick the joystick to the right (auto-center helps a LOT), so that you take either 2 quick,short steps, or one long step (2 flicks for the former). If you overstep, the jump doesn't work. Then, while still facing to the right, hold the button to start jumping in place. Once you have jumped once, push the joystick left, and you will jump down the whole, but pop all 3 rivets below to finish the screen.

[iimustang]

There is also a "super jump" that you can do on the rivets screen. After clearing out the left 4 rivets, go to the top right, inside of the rivet (up the ladder nearest Kong). Run to the right to pop the rivet... As soon as you pop it (and it plays the sound), hold the joystick button down to jump to the right, but center it back before you land so that you don't move once you land. (Continued next comment)

[SizeMick]

Hah I had this game and another one that went around the bulletin boards and computer clubs, a hack of this game called King Dong. The girl yelled SEX! instead of HELP! and the gorilla masturbated, then smiled, then sent a "sperm" down at you instead of a barrel! The hammers became syringes and when the sperms reached the bottom they hit a can labeled VD instead of OIL, so the syringes were there to stop the VD-infected sperm from killing you, ha! It'd be neat if a copy still exists :P

[GTBurns48215]

How did they not get SUED for this?

[marlinlee]

Good question. The best answer I can give is that it seemed no one was interested in porting it to the CoCo. They did change the name from Donkey King to The King for legal reasons.

[GTBurns48215]

I had a TRS80 in the years before the NES. I had Polaris, galactic attack, colorpede and Sailor man. Today just making games like this would get you sued to death. This was why Nintendo had the strict licensing policy for the NES.

[retrofreak90]

@marlinlee Actually, they DID get sued in the UK for Dragon32 Donkey King (game released by Microdeal in the UK), so they changed the name to "The King" which, amazingly, seemed to be enough. They were also sued for "Cuthert in the Jungle" (Pitfall).

[allenhuffman]

@GTBurns48215 Perhaps they did get "talked to." The game was originally sold as "Donkey King" then later was called "The King". There was a game company that put out all kinds of arcade clones (unofficial) for the CoCo with great names. "The Sailor Man" for PopEye, for instance, with characters called things like "Fat Guy Eating Hamburgers".

[randomrodder]

This was the best clone of DK on the Tandy machines, and better than all of officially licensed versions on other 8-bitters. Have tons of memories playing this game.

Until Sock Master ported the original DK to the CoCo3, this was the only one worth playing.

[Madgun68]

I think this game is actually a little harder than Donkey Kong. I tried giving this a go last night and couldn't reach that last screen for the life of me.

[marlinlee]

To get more lives load Donkey King. Then POKE 12914,x for a normal game or POKE 12904,x for a practice game. With x being any number from 1 to 255. Then EXEC the game.

Unfortunately I only found that info after I posted this video.

[lemaro1977]

I played this game! my cousin had on tape.

[cc6809]

Love this game!. As noted in the info box, one of the better ports of the arcade original into the CoCo.