{"id":783,"date":"2011-07-11T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T15:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2020-11-18T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T03:10:48","slug":"donkey-kong-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/783\/donkey-kong-turns-30","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Turns 30 (Time for Oddities)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/07\/10\/donkey-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/technologizer\/donkey_kong_oddities_small.jpg\" alt=\"Donkey Kong Oddities on Technologizer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago this month, Nintendo released <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donkey_Kong_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Donkey Kong<\/em><\/a> in the arcade.  The title introduced Mario to the world and turned Nintendo of America&#8217;s fortunes around.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Mario character first debuted in <em>Donkey Kong<\/em>, we could just as well be celebrating Mario&#8217;s 30th birthday.  I&#8217;m sure someone will figure that out and write about it soon (if they haven&#8217;t already).  But folks celebrate Mario endlessly, regardless of anniversary or season, so I think it&#8217;s time to focus on his simian rival and the game they first starred in together.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I put together <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/07\/10\/donkey-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donkey Kong Oddities<\/a>, which celebrates the game in that very Benj way &#8212; by finding weird and interesting tidbits of <em>Donkey Kong<\/em>-related ephemera and compiling them in a graphically-rich slideshow.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Entries in Benj&#8217;s Oddities Series:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/09\/12\/super-mario\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/02\/21\/legend-of-zelda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Legend of Zelda Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/10\/18\/nes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Entertainment System Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/04\/13\/game-boy-oddities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game Boy Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2011\/06\/22\/sonic-the-hedgehog-oddities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sonic the Hedgehog Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2010\/11\/17\/windows-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Oddities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago this month, Nintendo released Donkey Kong in the arcade. The title introduced Mario to the world and turned Nintendo of America&#8217;s fortunes around. Since the Mario character first debuted in Donkey Kong, we could just as well be celebrating Mario&#8217;s 30th birthday. I&#8217;m sure someone will figure that out and write about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,9],"tags":[92,83,869,164,88,143,245],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","tag-92","tag-anniversaries","tag-arcade","tag-donkey-kong","tag-freelance-work","tag-nintendo","tag-technologizer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}