MSX - Donkey Kong (1986)

Another Donkey Kongesque game: Donkey Kong for the MSX!! Originally released in 1981 in the arcades, Nintendo gave the MSX a try 5 years later. I am not 100% sure, but I reckon this is one of the few games that Nintendo ever tried on this platform. The co-creator, Ocean, tried a little harder.

I wonder if the phrase "How high can you get?" would pass the ESRB ratings of today.

If you don't define the keys in the beginning, the game will suck for you. It sucked for me anyway, because I am plain bad at these type of games.

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• video
• game
• donkey
• kong
• mario
• platform
• jump
• MSX
• Nintendo
• Ocean

[riki9999]

It's interesting to see how different ports of games compare. I'm surprised Nintendo licensed this version in 1986! Did this come out a bit before the NES came out in Europe?

[oldskoolgamertje]

This game is '86. The NES came out in 1985. The NES port of this game was October 15, 1986 for Europe, according to Wikipedia.

I cannot find an exact date of release of the MSX port, but I think it is save to assume the MSX and NES ports were developed and released at the same time, for the same market. Both the MSX and the NES had their largest user base in Japan (at that time).

[IMMADARKMAN]

Looks like they worked REALLY hard on the damsel

[Luigi84289]

Ninendo let OCEAN port this game? BAD move.

[BoctorPoo]

@Luigi84289 Ocean's C64 & Amstrad ports were nearly perfect except for the graphics having to be scaled down. The C64 one is superior to it's counterpart though.

[BoctorPoo]

How high can you get? Extremely high apparently. That screen scared the hell out of me.

[RetroToledo]

@oldskoolgamertje if you want to be more specific, the NES port itself was actually created back in '83 for the Nintendo Famicom. so it's a tad older at least in Japan.

[dreamcastII]

Is the MSX capable of multi-coloured sprites? The jumpman character looks like he 2+ colours, so why not the barrels, etc?

[PitkaMasa1]

C64 port is way better.

[Anony1200]

The music is just so sad. What a depressing donkey kong.

[puccaperson]

What have they done to donkey kong?

[edzzzwin]

@Evilmonkey66699 No way, Mario looks much better in this MSX port and a lot different from the white ZX Spectrum Mario. Also the sprites are moving different on the MSX. Check the ZX Spectrum version again. But the rest is indeed almost the same (crap).

[edzzzwin]

I played this version of DK a lot, the hard gameplay made it a challenge.

[gameguy73]

@oldskoolgamertje The japanese NES (Famicom) came out in 1983 along with Donkey Kong at launch in japan. It was quite old when it arrived for the rest of the world.