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The B-List History of Donkey Kong (Jeremy Parish) (Patreon)

Published:
2025-07-25 18:02:05
Edited:
2025-10-10 05:40:58
Imported:
2026-06

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Gaming historian Jeremy Parish joins me for the entire episode to tell the story of gaming’s most famous primate.

Act 1: How Donkey Kong saved Nintendo

Act 2: Donkey Kong’s long journey back to the top

Patreon Bonus: The Top 5 Donkey Kong games – and the #1 strangest

Act 3: The news of the week

Act 1: How Donkey Kong saved Nintendo

Jeremy Parish’s YouTube documentaries (Game Works)

NES Works 1985-86 (Limited Run)

SEGAIDEN Vol. 1 (Limited Run)

Ikegami Tsushinki (Wikipedia)

Virtual Boy Works (Limited Run)

Super NES Works Vol. 1 (Limited Run)

The Popeye magazine cover with a Mario-like model (NintendoLife/Katewillaert)

How Popeye Changed Video Games (Thrilling Tales of Video Games)

Act 2: Donkey Kong’s long journey back to the top

Who Killed Rare (Eurogamer)

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat review (IGN)

DK: King of Swing review (NintendoLife)

HBomberGuy’s famous Donkey Kong 64 charity stream (H.BurgerGuy)

Bonus Act: The top 5 Donkey Kong games

Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushū (Super Mario Wiki)

Donkey Kong 3 Dai Gyakushuu - ドンキーコング３ 大逆襲 (X1 Turbo) (Archive.org)

Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushuu (Sharp X1) Playthrough (NintendoComplete)

Act 3: News of the week

Supergiant swears Hades 2's new update is the last one before it leaves early access and releases in full (PCGamer)

It Took Me 10 Minutes To Hit A Paywall In The New Free-To-Play Pokémon Puzzle Game (Kotaku)

Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer (Battlefield YouTube)

Call of Duty is firmly in its slop era, and now it's Battlefield 6's game to lose (PCGamer)

Wheel World review (RPS)

Credit Card Companies Are Hurting the Future of Video Games (404 Media)

Crackdown on sex video games goes wide, alarming developers and impacting award-winning titles (Game File)

Steam and Itch.io Are Pulling ‘Porn’ Games. Critics Say It’s a Slippery Slope to More Censorship (Wired)

A helpful thread on how to formally and productively complain to your credit card company about their part in video game censorship (ithayla.bsky.social)

This week in video game links

Lena Raine’s Escape From Video Game Music Purgatory (Bandcamp)

'The father of Elder Scrolls' Julian LeFay has died: 'His legacy will live on in every realm, every quest, and every moment of wonder' (PCGamer)

The Softer Side of Dark Souls Fandom (SideQuest.Zone)

How to survive as an indie developer for 20 years (PCGamer) 

A Speculative Origin For Final Fantasy’s Tonberry (Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games)

Shadow Labyrinth Is A Brooding Memorial of Pac-Man (and Namco’s) Bygone Glory (Endless Mode)

As Video-Game Media Struggles, Star YouTuber Launches New Outlet (Bloomberg)

Free game of the week: Dogwalk

"Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and with a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio."

What else I’m enjoying

Thursday was Art House Theater Day. While you may have missed the free popcorn available at many art houses across the nation, the truth is that every day is art house movie theater day. This weekend, consider supporting your local art house theater. In a moment of intense artistic censorship via corporate apparatus, the art house is a sanctuary. (Want to watch the movie above? It's Nights of Cabiria)

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Comments

apers

I’m actually going to my local art house cinema today because of their summer music festival! They’re playing Stop Making Sense this weekend, so a friend of mine and I are going on opening night.

vince

interesting to hear the popularity of popeye in japan. the popeye magazine that was being referred to is actually still in publication btw! it’s a pretty great source for japanese men’s fashion, lifestyle, photography, etc.

Jon

I've been a fan of the Italians Do it Better record label for many years and I was intrigued that they seemingly took a "whole roster" approach to soundtracking some indie game. Now that you're also telling me that Wheel World is worth playing, and you didn't even mention a "killer OST" as a vibe crutch, guess I better play it now!

Robert Secundus

Is it possible to add timestamps to the patreon-only segments in the descriptions? I'm catching up now on the extended episodes, and while I could find the content on the first episode just fine, I can't seem to find it on the second episode after scrolling back and forth.

Makana

I loved the Gameboy Donkey Kong game, it served me well on countless car rides. I had hoped that the switch release of Mario vs Donkey Kong would be that again, not realizing that that was a follow up to a different game for the gba.

Groove Wizard

Hey Chris. I was reading up on the credit card / Collective Shout nonsense, and saw that The Verge had put up an edit correcting their claim that Consume Me! was hit through the censorship wave. Wanted to inform you since you reported on that this episode. I was also wondering - I heard that Japan deals with less issues from payment professors ascribing morals to economics, with the cause behind that being the konbini payment system - purchasing items online, getting a barcode, and taking that barcode to a convenience store and paying with cash. But from what I read, the konbini system is still handled through third-party payment processors. Just not Visa and MasterCard. So my curiosity is - wouldn't that have the same net result? Isn't it still *possible* that payment processors can interfere with what they deem as immoral purchases, and it's more that the current processors just don't do that? Are there any things we can do to shift our economic systems and remove power from shitheads like Peter Thiel? Bit bigger than video games, but with things as they are it's hard to not be.

ran

Really excited for the next episode, it's honestly a topic that somebody could have hours long discussions about and that could be taken in so many directions.

Andrew J. Taggart

Love the history of arcades & early Nintendo history. I appreciate Jeremy's insights. I'd also recommend Acquired podcast's "Nintendo's Origins" episode for a deep dive of the history of Nintendo's Famicom & SNES dominance.