Video game copyright wasn't taken seriously in the late 70s/early 80s. Fireboy & Watergirl. An unethical game designer looking to make a ripoff Donkey Kong could instantly change it so you’re… climbing a STAR RODEO to rescue a PREGNANT DENTIST from a CHARLES GRODIN. Mario's Brewery didn't even bother disguising the name of the main character in this Kong clone - but it did remove the ape, and replace him with an out-of-control beer machine. Jesus, I didn’t realize there would be this many Donkey Kong knockoffs. Super Smash Bros. (commonly referred to as Super Smash Bros. 64 or Smash 64) is a crossover fighting video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.It was first released in Japan on January 21, 1999, in North America on April 26, 1999, and in Europe on November 19, 1999. Was Ocean's 'Kong' also the one where the giant ape creature distorted all of the girders by making his legs disappear? You probably don’t need an analogy to understand how dumb this is, but KONG on Spectrum 48K is like ordering a dildo and being mailed a real human penis, only it’s terrible and crooked and made out of alpaca meat. November 2018 For some reason, the 1980s and early 90s were a time when ripping off intellectual property was the given thing - especially when it came to video games. As far as payback goes, it’s like getting revenge on your wife by making a homemade wig sort of like her boyfriend’s haircut and asking him to borrow $1200 for diarrhea medicine. Pokémon Mario bros Arcade Playstation Games Lego Yo-Kai Watch Bomberman The Legend of Zelda Pikachu Kirby Pokemon dress up Other Nintendo console games Mario 64 Tiny Huge Super Mario 64 No Speed Limit Super Bomberman 4 Sonic the Hedgehog 3 … If you’re a sports fan, I can explain it like this: Imagine seeing Michael Jordan playing for the first time, then changing your name to Wally Jordan a few weeks later but remaining untalented at basketball. Mr Biffo, please do a list of Spectrum cassette box art. It's a little remembered fact that Sega released its own Donkey Kong "tribute" in the form of Congo Bongo. December 2014 If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, Nintendo has a great many admirers. PANIC KONG on the MSX is the final words of a fish suffocating in a boat thinking of alpaca meat. Radar Scope is a fixed shooter in a forced perspective over a gradient-blue background, often described as a cross between Galaxian and Space Invaders. Too hard for me though. Flood Runner. By Tristan Jurkovich Jun 03, 2020. I know exactly what this look means. I’m a mysterious intruder who broke into this building hoping to steal pills, the creator of PAC-KONG. Mario’s luscious gym muscles are crammed into a child’s t-shirt and he walks with a skip in his step like a man in love. Sign up at http://www.lootcrate.com/SpaceHamster to save 10% on any new subscription to LOOTCRATE!Use the discount code HAMSTERBecome a HamSTAR today! KONG on the Commodore 64 is the meat boat thinking of fish and the beef canoe taking fish dreams, Dr. Alpaca Clock Penis. 10 Hilarious Bootleg Game Rip-Offs You'll Never Get To Play. Although, given the graphically shameful world into which he's been placed, quite what he has to smile about is anyone's guess. Now's the time to roll the barrel, for the gang's all here I read the title of one of the entries as Honky Kong, and actually had to pause to compose myself for several minutes before reading the rest. You'd be right for wondering what's going on with the ape in Ape Craze. Commodore ended up buying a lot of them and Atari threatened to sue. Even the least amount of effort like… climbing a(n) ASS to rescue a(n) ASS from a(n) CHARLES GRODIN’S ASS would be better than a failed attempt at precisely recreating Donkey Kong. It popularized the platform genre where the protagonist jumps on platforms and avoiding enemies, and in the case of Donkey Kong climbing towards to top to save his girlfriend from the evil monkey that kidnapped her. KONGO KONG looks like a therapist asked a child to draw the nude man who climbed onto their roof and declared himself Santa Claus. It's all here. …This article was brought to you by our fine patron and Hot Dog Supreme, Brianne Whitney: who discovered the scientific formula for diagnosing a crew of being “through” or “2 legit 2 quit.”, Hilariously even the robot on Pac Kong is stolen. June 2019 The third one borrows rather heavily from Star Wars too, those are clearly TIE Fighters with antennas. The original Kong must have been furious when some asshole normal-sized gorilla stole his name, added “Donkey” to it, and became way more famous. August 2015 All of the collectables in this game will keep you busy for weeks and weeks. In Victory Software's Kongo Kong players controlled a "fireman", who apparently lived in some sort of circus tent. Duck life 5. Donkey Kong, the game that introduced Mario (or Jumpman for you dumb nerds), Nintendo's flagship character. June 2018 Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Or, indeed, what is going on in the above image full stop. Gameplay involves clearing each stage of the Gamma Raiders without colliding with them or their projectiles. A terrific version in its own right, but hardly original. In the early ’80s, ZX Spectrum owners had an endless selection of bad Donkey Kong knockoffs. I remember trying to write a Donkey Kong like game on my ZX81 in BASIC. December 2019 March 2016 November 2019 October 2019 I've always loved that Killer Kong cover too btw, I'm of two mins whether I should photoshop actual nips to it and have a t-shirt made. The reason Tiger Electronics has to do with King Kong is because Tiger made rare King Kong games for systems like the Atari and the LCD. Fancy Pants Adventure: World 2. Let’s look at some of these pieces of shit! rest in pieces dededehttps://www.facebook.com/connerthewafflehttps://twitter.com/ConnerDaWaffleInstagram - … 20 Nintendo Rip-Offs That Are Absolutely Shameless. You can see all the versions on sites such as Stairway to Hell. The idea of a man climbing a construction site to rescue a woman from a gorilla seems like it should be unique. My efforts seemed, at the time, to be worth the effort. May 2015 Donkey Kong. I should mention with the ZX Spectrum they could also just play Donkey Kong. September 2017 July 2018 Duck life 3. March 2019 Asia is a land known for having hilarious rip-offs of popular video games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptjLXK7QFlg. Didn't mean to steal your thunder there. As stated in our review of the Wii U original, Tropical Freeze takes everything that made Donkey Kong Country Returns great and doubles down on it. It seems the latter's IP team were placated by a change of sprite design and a title of 'Snapper', though still with the central dot-munching ghost-avoiding mechanic. Speaking of stopping, should I maybe wrap this up? The most recognized of the King Kong games is probably the King Kong (Atari 2600) game. May 2019 The idea for their Donkey Kong ripoff was to have Cuthbert murder him and declare himself king of the gorillas, but none of this made it into the actual game. Consequently, this makes for a jarring blend of imagination and sheer opportunism, but is at least consistent with Nintendo's assertion that Mario is a high-functioning alcoholic. Donkey Kong Country (left), Banana Kong (right) Donkey Kong Country | Banana Kong. December 2016 8/2/2017 14 Comments For some reason, the 1980s and early 90s were a time when ripping off intellectual property was the given thing - especially when it came to video games. July 2015 Wally Kong is what you would name an ape if it farted so hard it got its head caught in the zoo bars. Let's hope he's not about to produce some "honey". If you held a gun on an Atari 2600 and said, “I don’t have the cartridge, but we’re going to fucking play Donkey Kong,” this would be the attempt not good enough to save its life. Other arcade games, like Donkey Kong Jr., actually created levels out of little moving LCD-block platforms that Donkey Kong could hop over. A solid Kong clone - despite the ape here looking more like a blue snowman in a huff - it is perhaps best remembered for its cheeky cover artwork... Colour-wise, Monkey Kong gets Mario bang-on (albeit after he's been rather overdoing it with the stuffed crusts). April 2016 By 1982's Donkey Kong Junior, Jumpman had evolved into Mario, and he's been a turtle-stomping Italian plumber ever since. Some of these games are rip-offs of other games. Duck Life Space. The game itself depicts him as a homeless man guarding a woman he made out of patio furniture, which doesn’t help at all. KING KONG, 1982 (Atari 2600) The original Kong must have been furious when some asshole normal-sized gorilla stole his name, added “Donkey” to it, and became way more famous. December 2015 I've been reading Commodore: A Company On The Edge, and in it there's talk of the Japanese schoolkids and arcade and PET enthusiasts that set up HAL Labs. It’s about Kong and Mario, two jacked guys with lusty smiles working out together. Nintendo is no stranger to copycats, having watched the likes of … February 2018 Or at least one of those mental £9.99 Future publishing things they do like HOW TO SET-UP YOUR IPAD. Famously terrible, Crazy Kong nevertheless features the happiest ape on this list. July 2016 This is like telling your kid you’re going to make up a story about them in Star Wars and then badly recapping the one with Jar Jar Binks with zero changes and telling them to go the fuck to sleep. February 2016 December 2018 George Lucas' lawyers must have been snoozing that day. These people very specifically made a copy of Donkey Kong so confused or stupid customers would think, “Oh, this is Donkey Kong.” And then the box art tried to convince them it’s actually about King Kong fighting airplanes, a different ape and a wildly different game concept. Games [] Crazy Kong [] Main article: Crazy Kong Crazy Kong was an officially-licensed clone of Donkey Kong, developed by Falcon under license from Nintendo.Although the terms of the contract limited manufacturing and distribution of Crazy Kong to Japan, Falcon broke the agreement by exporting the game to the U.S. The player pilots the Sonic Spaceport starship and must defend the space station against enemies called the Gamma Raiders. The problem was that I had injured my leg, and as a result was out of my face on prescription painkillers (a heady mix of codeine and caffeine in a simple to take tablet). February 2020 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. I’m not good at reading gorilla expressions. Unfortunately, it plays out against a neon green backdrop, which seems designed to invoke seizures. So to get revenge on Donkey Kong, King Kong copied his game to the letter. Cue minimally-altered titles and - in extreme cases - slightly different graphics. Fine, embarrass yourself. You're right, the first two are incredibly blatant rip-offs. Some of these games are actually Donkey Kong rip-offs. So to get revenge on Donkey Kong, King Kong copied his game to the letter. August 2019 Killer Kong has my favorite cover art…” March 2018 October 2017 Donkey Kong 64 is literally the best game that I will ever play. All of which is a lengthy preamble to my favourite DK ripoff, Killer Gorilla (the 'fun' starts about 30 seconds in) Flight. Steal our IP for your shitty Radio Shack mascot? Exit Path. March 2015 According to the game's manual, Donkey Kong was actually Mario's pet ape. Ah sorry - just seen that Jamie's posted about Killer Gorilla too. Acornsoft, the micro manufacturer's in-house software label, seemed one of the worst offenders, getting extremely close to releasing a game called 'Pacman' for the BBC Micro before Namco had a word. And yet here we are in a world where 750 people copied the exact gameplay of Donkey Kong and also, pointlessly, the exact characters and plot. By Christopher Hodges Oct 09, 2019. In the ’80s, Tandy computers stole game ideas and plugged in “Cuthbert,” their mascot they stole from Mad Magazine. April 2018 For many countries, video games are harder to get. By 1982, Donkey Kong had sold over 60,000 units and earned $180 million. Each hero has two skills and you can combine them with directions to get special moves. January 2015 “Picture this: Pac-Man meets Donkey Kong with giant robots. June 2015 Without even venturing into the shaky moral and legal issues of primate ownership, it gets way worse from there: The reason Donkey Kong escaped in the first place was only because Mario was abusing him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPkt5mmO-zc, The 80s were a truly weird time for IP appropriation weren't they? Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run If you were writing a screenplay about the year 3000 and wanted to immediately explain how the last 980 years sucked you would introduce a character named President Wally Bush. Publish the website and visit your blog page to see the results, THE MOST SHAMELESS DONKEY KONG RIP-OFFS EVER, A TRIBUTE TO THE NINTENDO 64 - BY MR BIFFO, MAKING IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THIS GALLERY OF WEIRD PAC-MAN MERCHANDISE WILL BE WORTH IT FOR THE LEWD JOKE AT THE END, PROBABLY. Also: Acornsoft's Defender, later retitled Planetoid after Atari swooped. The phrase was named after the extremely popular 1981 video game Donkey Kong, a favorite in arcades worldwide.“It’s On Like Donkey Kong” referred to the frenzy that surrounded the arcade cabinets as video game enthusiasts controlled an early portrayal of the famous video game character Mario to save a damsel from the eponymous giant ape. Simple to learn but hard to master, the gameplay of Super Smash Bros is yet intense and technical. Despite being called Monkey Business, there were no monkeys or apes to be found in this game. The guy who made KILLER GORILLA, which was just Donkey Kong, went on to make a sequel called ZANY KONG JUNIOR, which was just Donkey Kong Jr.. 1 Overview 2 Main series 2.1 Just Another Pandora's Box 2.2 Pandora's Box 2 2.3 Pandora's … Donkey Kong, who would star in some of the greatest platformers on the SNES. Duck Life 4. This came out only months after the first Donkey Kong, which in the video game developing world is almost impressive. January 2017 MAIN PAGE Features Videos Game Reviews FAQ THE MOST SHAMELESS DONKEY KONG RIP-OFFS EVER. Emulator & Games (NEW!!) This inspired the copyright holders to finally, in a world where a Donkey Kong clone came out every 11 seconds, to finally send a cease and desist letter. Of all the video games in the world to copy, no game lends itself better to being MADLibbed into something new. Well, not to the letter. Everything in this game is perfect. January 2020 HAL Labs expertly recreated perfect conversions of their favourite arcade games on the PET, and later the VIC-20 (probably the C64 too, I don't remember). Spectrum game box art could fill a book. Duck life 1. Duck life 2. August 2017 Of all the games on this list, this is the one which veers furthest away from the original Kong - by adopting an isometric viewpoint. Further questions are raised by its title screen, which appears to depict a surprised gingerbread man holding a carton of Um Bongo. There's a "fireman" in my "circus tent" right now. Whatever this thing is supposed to be, the guy in the red shirt isn’t getting out of this alive. April 2017 Here's the proof. So King Kong didn’t exactly get revenge on Donkey Kong with this. But whether you’re looking for a knockoff of Donkey or King Kong, you will hate plain KONG. I wiped the tape, and probably used it for something more productive. Also: the beautiful woman is here portrayed by Rupert Grint holding a blue briefcase, while waiting for a bus, apparently. The first port of Donkey Kong I’m going to look at is one of the most recent additions to the emulator, added in 0.161 it’s the Coleco Handheld which looked something like this . It’s a bit cheeky of Hummer Team to call this Donkey Kong Country 4, in what I assume is a shallow attempt to make people think they’d be getting a brand new Donkey Kong adventure.It’s actually a trimmed-up, slimmed-down version of the original SNES Donkey Kong Country, and a better title for it would be something like Donkey Kong Country 0.6. Presumably, the creators thought that they could get away with claims of plagiarism by changing the antagonist from an ape to a big fat man in green trousers. Perhaps it's meant to represent his "tail". DVD Logo Screensaver. June 2016 July 2019 Flappy Bird . Pandora's Box is a series of bootleg JAMMA XXX-in-1 arcade boards manufactured since 2012 by 3A-Game Electronic Technology, headquartered in Guangzhou, China. Earn to Die 2012. For this reason alone, he has earned the nickname "Darwin's Contrition". Donkey Kong is one of the most aped games ever. Now take away the Pac-Man. August 2018 There’s a thought – I’m surprised there weren’t more Donkey Kong rip-offs that replaced the ape with a yeti or something. It's worth pointing out the dubious extra pixel between the gorilla's legs in Honey Kong. If they gave a Nobel Prize for horny video game sprites, Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, would say, “I am proud to share this honor with KONG’S REVENGE on ZX Spectrum Cassette.” I haven’t been so certain a man and gorilla are about to fuck since a few minutes ago when the cover of KILLER KONG locked eyes with me. October 2018 Are we about to fight or fuck?” So I have no idea if KONGO KONG is a rampaging beast or a transfer gorilla smiling for his school picture. May 2016 Doom. February 2015 It was only when I stopped taking the medications and I thought “let’s look at the Donkey Kong” game again that the next thought in my mind was “just WHAT the actual F*** were you doing‽”. That’s actually a really elegant way to explain to a potential customer how this is Donkey Kong’s shittiest cousin. April 2019 Perhaps it was just accepted that the true appeal of Donkey Kong isn’t the charming graphics or fun, precise gameplay but simply that it’s got a big monkey. The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto that later would conceive Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda. Excuse me whilst I burst into song: February 2019 Wallycop is what Marlon Wayans would name his Robocop parody. 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