Donkey Kong series

[Foggle]

So I take it you never got to the other two instances of Beaver Bother, then?

Am I the only person here who has 101%ed the game?

[talonmalon333]

It really isn't that bad.

I'll be buying it on the VC once I have the money.

I agree it's not as bad as some people make it out to be, but I honestly don't think it's a good game. It almost seems more to me like an experiment in "quantity over quality" than a real video game.

[Foggle]

It's not a particularly good game, but aside from some of the mini-games and parts of the final boss fight, I would hardly call it a bad one. It's just extremely tedious if you want to collect everything.

[Spark Of Spirit]

If it's put on sale I'll buy it for the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Until then, I'm not touching it.

[Foggle]

If it's put on sale I'll buy it for the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Until then, I'm not touching it.

Which is oddly still the best home console port of the game...

[Kiddington]

So I take it you never got to the other two instances of Beaver Bother, then?

Am I the only person here who has 101%ed the game?

I made it farther when I was a kid; on the very first playthrough I believe made it all the way to Hideout Helm (or somewhere up to that point). Might've been around 60-70% complete, maybe more. So yeah, I've played the later stages of Beaver Bother.

I was pretty fed up with it at that point (this is when I was TEN by the way, when I would waste my time with pretty much any game), so I put it down for several years and forgot about it, then picked it back up and started a new file around 2008-ish in my attempt to give it another shot. That was as far as I got.

Sorry, but it sucks. Just my humble hot take.

[talonmalon333]

If it's put on sale I'll buy it for the arcade version of Donkey Kong. Until then, I'm not touching it.

Which is oddly still the best home console port of the game...

I wouldn't say "oddly". I mean, console ports of ancient arcade games tend to be watered down versions.

I forget how many Golden Bananas I had when I beat the game. Pretty sure it was over 100, but I know for a fact I didn't get all of them.

[Foggle]

I wouldn't say "oddly". I mean, console ports of ancient arcade games tend to be watered down versions.

Yeah, but there are newer ports and they aren't as good.

[talonmalon333]

I wouldn't say "oddly". I mean, console ports of ancient arcade games tend to be watered down versions.

Yeah, but there are newer ports and they aren't as good.

But aren't they just ports of old ports?

[Foggle]

That's true; I think they're ports of the gimped NES version rather than the original arcade game.

[talonmalon333]

The best home console port of an arcade game is probably Pac-Man. The Atari port is so pleasant to look at.

[gunswordfist]

I wouldn't say "oddly". I mean, console ports of ancient arcade games tend to be watered down versions.

Can someone explain to me why Ms. Pac-Man is one player only one XBLA?

[Foggle]

The best home console port of an arcade game is probably Pac-Man. The Atari port is so pleasant to look at.

The 2600 version of Donkey Kong is almost as good, though.

Can someone explain to me why Ms. Pac-Man is one player only one XBLA?

God is dead.

[talonmalon333]

I especially like how Donkey Kong looks in that port. I feel like I could recreate that in Paint in 5 minutes.

What's funny about Atari Pac-Man is that Pac-Man Jr. also got an Atari port, one that wasn't rushed out the door. The difference between these two ports is like night and day.

I wouldn't say "oddly". I mean, console ports of ancient arcade games tend to be watered down versions.

Can someone explain to me why Ms. Pac-Man is one player only one XBLA?

To encourage people to not play it and instead play the best port of any arcade game:

The best home console port of an arcade game is probably Pac-Man. The Atari port is so pleasant to look at.

[talonmalon333]

What's the best Pac-Man game, by the way?