Retronauts Episode 263: Donkey Kong
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4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
We put together a classic Retronauts lineup (Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt, and Chris Kohler) to discuss the history of an all-time arcade classic: Donkey Kong. (And also its lesser ’80s sequels.)
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| 0:00.0 | This weekend, RetroNots, guess what it's on like. |
| 0:02.5 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:25.2 | Hi everyone, welcome to an episode of RetroNots starring |
| 0:28.7 | a podcast studio. I'm one of those people, I'm Jeremy Parrish, and I'm leading this episode. |
| 0:34.3 | And with me, in this intrepid journey through old video games, we have... |
| 0:39.4 | Hey, it's Bob Mackie, and this Kong has a funny face. |
| 0:42.8 | Chris Kohler, didn't we do RetroNots on Donkey Kong when I was in my 20s? |
| 0:48.5 | I was like Donkey Kong as a holistic Donkey Kong, whereas this is just about the arcade games. |
| 0:54.2 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Ray Barnhold, I'm here for some monkey catching action. |
| 0:58.0 | Wait, wrong one. |
| 0:58.8 | Oh, no! Get out of here. |
| 1:01.1 | Alright, anyway, enough of this joking around. |
| 1:04.7 | This is about Spanky's quest? |
| 1:06.0 | No, it's not about any of those things. It's not even about the monkey king. |
| 1:10.3 | Nope, it's about Donkey Kong. |
| 1:12.8 | We've done a lot of very granular looks at Mario games and other things to have descended from the Donkey Kong series, |
| 1:19.5 | but in this current incarnation of RetroNots, which is now six years old, |
| 1:24.7 | we have not actually gone back and looked at Donkey Kong. |
| 1:27.8 | We did, as you mentioned, many, many, many, many years ago, |
| 1:32.4 | look at Donkey Kong kind of as a general franchise, including country and things like that, |
| 1:37.8 | but we've never given the games the full kind of modern RetroNots approach, |
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