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Donkey Kong (1981)

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Since the last time I streamed Rare and DK Flash games, the Flash archiving project Flashpoint has updated and added more to their catalogue, so here I check those out; both official promotional games and sites, and unofficial fangames! Also included are some Camp Hyrule minigames preserved at the Internet Archive. Games played:

Official Rare stuff:
-Timber's Balloon Pop. This avoid-em-up minigame promoting Diddy Kong Racing DS is one I featured on a previous stream, but now it's on Flashpoint...because I curated it! Somebody else also preserved the whole microsite which also contains the game, though, and I check that out too.
-Rare Simon Says Game, a simple pattern-repeating game that unlocks a hidden web page on Rare's site... that no longer exists.
-The Star Fox Adventures microsite, which has fun in-universe writings and a variety of minigames. I played the Peppy map puzzle one separately first then the rest after exploring the microsite, including a Dino language decoding game (with a different cypher to the game's one!), a Shabunga auction game, a shell game, etc.
-The Star Fox Assault microsite, a mildly interactive experience with a touch of Rare-derived Star Fox continuity. Both English-language and Japanese sites were featured.

Rare fangames:
-Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh Flash!, a fan-made expansion on the Klungo minigames from Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. I had a go at one of the eight levels.

Nintendo promotional sites:
-The 1998 "Welcome to Nintendo World" company report, a Japanese-language Flash site that looks ahead to future games and products as well as retrospectively at previous years of first-party games and hardware.
-The "Nintendo Dictionary" from a similar time is a much more flashy and exuberant experience with lots of colour, music, and animations as well as many sub-pages with game overviews, interviews, and even original characters to present the information!

Official Donkey Kong stuff:
-Donkey Konk, a DKC-era whack-a-mole type game where you bonk (pictures of) Kremlings with peanuts.
-"Read the Unfinished Donkey Kong Country Story and Finish the Adventure", a lightly interactive story-builder promoting DKC GBC where you pick the ending from several possible alternatives.
-Let's Try "You can Play Picross", a sampling of Jupiter's eight Picross titles for the Super Famicom Nintendo Power cartridge rewriting service. Although this Java-based recreation is crude (there's no distinction between filling a square or crossing it out) I played the single sample puzzle from the volume 8 character set, which is based on DKC: a 20x20 puzzle depicting Funky Kong.
-The Super Mario Strikers promotional game, a simple goal-kicking exercise but you can nominally play as Donkey Kong!
-Camp Hyrule was featured next, an annually-updated Nintendo of America web presence with events at a campsite and several variously-branded minigames. I checked out some of the different camp layouts with their occasional DK reference, a Donkey Konga-inspired bongo minigame, and a Zelda trivia quiz.

DK-related fangames:
-Donkey Kong: Changing Roles, a DK Arcade-inspired game with modern trappings, but with a reversal: you play as DK trying to stop Mario from ascending the construction site. Neat idea, but the game seemed a bit buggy.
-Donkey Kong Typing, a basic hit-the-right-letter-key game. Doesn't really teach typing skills, I reckon.
-Mario Glider, a simple Mario Kart bootleg with a playable Donkey.
-Donkey Kong RPG, a quaint but charming sidescrolling action-RPG set in some version of DK's world.
-Super Smash Flash 2, an ambitious and well-executed fan Smash Bros. game. Has lots of fun unique content, including a playable Krystal who I played as through Classic mode.

You can still play most of these games today thanks to the Flashpoint project and its curators: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

Camp Hyrule is partially preserved and accessible here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=...


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