Steve Wiebe (pictured) will shoot for the Donkey Kong high score next week at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. Gamasutra reports that Wiebe will appear at the booth for Atlassian , a maker of bug-tracking software, where he will sign autographs and do his darndest to beat rival Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high score. Steve Wiebe is best known for his appearance in the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced that it’ll be awarding Shigeru Miyamoto with the storied BAFTA Fellowship award , which is “the highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual for their creative work.” Miyamoto will receive the award in a ceremony next month. It’s a pretty high honor for his work in film and television, which includes this Mega64 video and this old kids’ television series .
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Miyamoto recognized with prestigious BAFTA Fellowship
This Black Friday, November 27, Nintendo will release DSi bundles containing pre-installed software to the value of $20. The metallic blue DSi bundle (a new color for the States) will feature Mario-themed DSiWare, while the white is for those with “a passion for brain teasers.” Blue version: Mario vs. Donkey Kong : Minis March Again!, D r
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Nintendo launching Limited Edition DSi bundles featuring Mario, ‘brain teaser’ DSiWare packs
Ignition Entertainment ’s Nostalgia for the Nintendo DS lives up to its name, bringing to mind roleplaying games of ages past with battling airships. Nostalgia basically takes the same sort of airship travel as we’ve seen in earlier entries in the Final Fantasy series and countless other roleplaying games and pimps it out, letting the player customize weapons and take to the sky for airship battles
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Nostalgia’s Airships Make Us Nostalgic [Clip]
A while back, I wrote about two of my favorite subjects combined: videogames and cereal . Now I want to take you through another avenue of pop culture history that will help to complete the trifecta of the things that, for over 20 years, have made gamer children’s days brighter; heck, adults love ‘em too! I’m talking about the marriage of television shows, namely cartoons, with videogames.
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From the Console to the TV Station: Part 1
Best thing about this video? It’s sort and too the point — that, and there’s kicker at the end. Be sure to stay after the credits! Created in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Donkey Kong was made from a pile of post-it notes
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Stop Motion Donkey Kong Made From Post-It Notes [Clips]
Who knew? You can put a price on obscure video game secrets, after all. Buried in 25,000-odd lines of game code for twenty-six years, an ancient “Easter egg” has been uncovered — thanks to a modest cash reward — from the Atari 8-bit port of Donkey Kong
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Donkey Kong Easter egg cracked 26 years late
Last year, the coder who wrote the Atari 400 port of Donkey Kong revealed it had an Easter Egg but it’s “totally not worth it.” Someone has gone to the trouble of finding it. Donkey Kong for the Atari 400 and 800 was one of the best early ports of an arcade game, and its writer, Landon Dyer, detailed how he built it practically by himself , with no support, reference code, or anything one would expect in a licensing deal
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Donkey Kong Easter Egg Discovered 26 Years Later [Easter Eggs]
Never mind what’s at the bottom of this barrel, here’s a list of 29 Wii games from Nintendo and the amount of hours people play them, per gamer. (The following stats are pulled from the usage data shared by more than two million Wii users through the system’s Nintendo Channel. For more information about how we calculate these total playtimes, check out this week’s earlier Wii stats post ) Average Per-Gamer Playing Time For Nintendo’s First-Party Wii Games (as of July 1) (Release Dates in Parentheses) Super Smash Bros.
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How Many Hours People Play Nintendo’s Wii Games (Sorry, Donkey Kong) [Nintendo]
Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they’re not antagonizing their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters’ major motivation. In honor of Father’s Day , we celebrate dads in video games: from the good to the bad to the “Luke, I am your father kind,” that don’t fulfill any fatherly duties beyond lopping off a limb
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Father Knows Best: The Best and Worst Fathers in Video Games [Feature]
