Best Donkey Kong Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 637

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.8 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

The VGA crew is going bananas for Donkey Kong Bananza, and we wanted to celebrate the best Donkey Kong game in years with a top 5 retrospective taking you through the various eras of games starring Nintendo's big, lovable ape. After that, we dig deep and leave no fossil unturned as we talk all things Donkey Kong Bananza, cover this week's news, and more! Question of the Week: What's your favorite Donkey Kong memory or experience? Break song is "Banana Man" by Tally Hall. Vidjagame Apocalypse theme by Matthew Joseph Payne.

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0:00.0	I'm BASK! BAS! BAS! BAS! BADY! BAS! BADY! BADY! BADY! I'm Hey everybody, welcome to episode 637 of Vigame Apocalypse.
0:31.4	I'm your host, Matthew Allen, who is here in the Raccoon Hale Memorial Studio of the Airways with me?
0:37.2	Oh, banana diom addict, Chris Antista.
0:41.0	Hail raccoons, by the way.
0:42.8	And who is our third chair?
0:45.7	Hi, I am podcaster T.L. Foster.
0:48.4	Today I'm surrounded by 20 of the dumbest people you've ever met in your life.
0:55.2	This is the maddest I've ever been!
1:00.6	Welcome to the show.
1:02.2	This is going to be a fun one because I like the idea that we can talk about Donkey Kong.
1:06.6	Donky Kong.
1:09.3	Yes!
1:10.4	Talk about not burying the banana or the lead. Yes, Chris is right. No, I wanted to get Donkey Kong in there. Before I said, please join us at patreon.com slash laser time for extra stuff, Matt. Thank you. And T.O. and I have done a bunch of Superman. Did a Superman show. I am four viewings into Superman. It is one of my favorite movies of the decade.
1:27.9	It became a spoiler cast.
1:29.8	It's exclusive on the Patreon at the $5 or more level,
1:34.3	along with a kind of a quick review Chris and I did of F1.
1:38.4	And a quick review that I ended up doing solo because I lost the recording with Chris,
1:42.4	but I got his takes in there too.
1:44.0	For Jurassic World Rebirth, almost forgot the name yet again, Chris.
1:48.2	It's a very forgettable name.
1:50.2	I will go ahead and plug because I'm going to be recording another one of those.
1:53.2	I'm going to do one of those for Eddington, which is currently in limited release, but is coming out, I think, in wide release soon.
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