To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Famicom, Nintendo has released the original Donkey Kong in the Wii U Virtual Console. The classic game, which was first released in 1981, has players control Jumpman – later renamed Mario – who must scale platforms, climb ladders and jump over obstacles to rescue damsel in distress Pauline from the grasp of the large, stubborn ape Donkey Kong.
The game requires 35MB to download from the Nintendo eShop and you can purchase it for only 30 cents until August 13th, which is when it will be priced at $4.99. Donkey Kong is the seventh and final offer of the Wii U Virtual Console Trial Campaign.
Pauline is a massive whore.
That’s great but where did Donkey Kong Country go
It went “Retro”.
I dont know guys but these Donkey Kong games feel kinda “Rare” .
I know, I hate that they took it off. I don’t understand why they did that?
Maybe it’s because of Nintendo’s former developer RARE owned by Microshaft.
i know i been looking for it everywhere, club nintendo, virtual console nothing i want to get it
Nothing else just this? It’s a good game but ehh I was hoping for a game more long and possible to beat LOL. I will wait for that game! (And it better be good.)
Won’t get this………well i might.
People are actually complaining about one of the games from the genesis of gaming being available for only 30 cents? Seriously. I’d buy the hell out of this if I had a Wii U or it were on Wii.
Amen, man. It always cracks me up when I hit Miiverse and see people complaining about a game that cost them 30 cents. That’s like less than half an order of small fries =) As for what games Nintendo picks, write Nintendo, guys. I did the week all that came out was ‘Vegas Stakes’ and they sent me a very polite and actually lengthy reply.
How long is this ‘limited time’ anyone..?
A month.
I wish the 3DS Eshop got good sales like this.
Thank you Nintendo
Off topic, what happened to that Walter White troll? Im starting to miss him :P
I’m surprised people still don’t know about the 30 cents things Nintendo has been doing all year. Super Metroid was the one major reward.
How dafuq is it possible to require or take up 35 MegaBytes of space?!?!?!?!?
Why? 35 mb is very little space.
Because most SNES games are smaller than 10MB’s
so an NES game bigger than half a MB is too damn big.
Calm down. Coding a game, even an oldie, to run on a modern console is going to require software written for a MODERN CONSOLE. What’s eating up the 35MB (which is pretty tiny anyway) is probably the operating system that gives us customizable button layout, save points, etc. While current gamers may be spoiled by tiny roms people who actually do their homework before complaining use far less ! and ?s.
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4.99 ouch. I feel bad for any motherfucker who wants this game after the deal.
A far better pricing model (that Nintendo is sure to ignore) would be as follows:
NES 2.99
SNES 3.99
N64 6.99
Gamecube 9.99
Seems pretty fair to me, but it won’t happen unless we write Nintendo (politely) in large numbers. If their goal is to compete with ‘free’ emulation options, the prices they currently support are a joke.
now those are prices I can agree with.
Walter White shouldn’t come back. Besides I have this game on DK 64. =p
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And still no Gamecube on virtual console…
This game is played all the time at my church for free on a really old console
This game is great and will be for generations.