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Take Batman out of Frank Miller's classic story about an older Batman coming out of retirement. Replace him with Donkey Kong. And you get something that hopefully exists in some more blessed alternate universe: The Donkey Knight Returns.Read more...

Sure, Nintendo has some really fun—even family friendly!—ideas...for games. But they'd mostly be incredibly dangerous if ever incorporated into the non-virtually-rendered world. Read more...

Donkey Me is a fan project by Bruno R. Marcos which takes Nintendo's classic arcade game and gives it a ton of new, unofficial "themed" expansions, based on stuff like Star Wars, Conan, Rambo, Indiana Jones and Big Trouble In Little China.Read more...

Hint: it would have been insane and filled with nostalgia.Read more...

Now, as much as I adore Donkey Kong 64 as a cherished game from my childhood, I can't really say the game has held up well over time. I'm not trying to replay it or anything...well, unless I could play a glitched out version of it, like Vinesauce does here. It would be too hilarious not to enjoy!Read more...

What do E.T., Nemo, and Jesus have in common? They all apparently look like stones housed in one of Japan's most peculiar (and charming) museums: the Hall of Curious Rocks. Read more...

There's a clarity to this version of the Donkey Kong arcade game that the original arcade cabinet just can't match. Something about using using thousands of perler beads instead of sprites, I'd imagine. Read more...

Well, this is cool. And a little bit brain-hurting.Read more...

Sir Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins portrayed as a 60s hippie, or Kaneda from Akira as Pac-Man is not something that comes along every day, but these awesome, animated posters have the weirdest crossovers between video games, movies, celebrities and music. Brazilian artist Butcher Billy made crazy mashups before, like the one with Super Mario and The Sex Pistols, now he's created an even messier, awesome looking gallery. Come Play My Game, I'll Test Ya by Butcher Billy [Béhance] To contact the author of this post, write to gergovas@kotaku.com

To a 3-year-old, it's a logical enough assumption: We can play as a girl, Princess Peach, in Super Mario Bros. 2, so we should be able to play as Pauline in Donkey Kong. Most seasoned players know this isn't the case, since Donkey Kong features a static game of boy-saves-girl - until now.

"My 3-year-old daughter and I play a lot of old games," writes one dad on Facebook, as picked up by Reddit. "Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She's played as Peach in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn't in that particular Mario game; she seemed really bummed out by that."

To put a smile on his daughter's face, this dad hacked the 2010 NES Donkey Kong ROM, using Tile Layer Pro, and swapped out Mario with Pauline. He shows off the end product in the above Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition video, though we don't need visual confirmation that this is the most adorable story we'll write today.

#donkeykong This is pretty sweet. Mike Mika's daughter is three years old, and the two of them play a lot of video games together. "She's played as Peach in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally just assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong," he wrote. When it bummed her out to learn she couldn't play as Pauline, the original damsel Mario rescued from distress, Mike set out to mod the game so she could play as the woman. More »

#pokemon Canadian street artist (and animator, and character designer) Aiden Glynn likes to take everyday objects on the street and bring a little life to them, turning them into characters from video games and cartoons. More »

#donkeykong Vincent Lemay came in just 2,700 points shy of Hank Chien's world record score for Donkey Kong, adding his name to the team of rivals for what has become arcade video gaming's Holy Grail of high scores. More »

#donkeykong It's like a Christmas tree, but cooler. Designed by Carlos Leituga, this tree takes the original, arcade Donkey Kong game and morphs it a little. I never realized how perfect that level is for a tree until now. More »

#donkeykong The giant video game musical collective Overclocked Remix has turned their attention to Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and released a massive, 77-song remix album. It's their 36th remix album, and it features over 69 artists, including musical performances by DKC3 composer David Wise. (Who, incidentally, is still working, making the music for Tengami).) More »

#donkeykong This contraption looks like an alternate-reality version of the arcade game that pretty much saved Nintendo. No pixels are present in engineer Martin Raynsford's laser-cut re-creation of Donkey Kong but you do control Mario via an NES hooked up to servo motors. This first attempt only lets you jump as Mario but Raynsford writes that he'll start work on a sidescrolling version soon. Still, pretty frikkin' cool More »

#sexytime Video game soundtracks are amazing. But as lovely as they may be, most video game music doesn't exactly put people in the mood for sweet, sweet lovemaking. More »

#watchthis What the… I don't… why? Who? More »

#donkeykong 1,127,700 had replaced 1,110,100 as Donkey Kong champion Hank Chien's newest high score, adding more proof to the idea that the dude simply can't be stopped. More »

#donkeykong Artist Julien Bazinet likes Donkey Kong. He likes other things, too, like Doctor Who, Aliens and Sesame Street. And when you can render graphics as exceptionally as Bazinet, well, there's certainly nothing from stopping you from implanting those latter things into Donkey Kong. More »

#smashbros This is what the people behind Smash Bros. draw for fun. More »

#wreckitralph Maybe you've seen the trailer for Wreck-It Ralph, the upcoming Disney movie about a video game villain who doesn't want to be bad anymore. That clip's got bad guys like Street Fighter's Zangief and Bowser from the Super Mario games opening their hearts in a support group. Those villains earned their bad reputations by body-slamming players in actual games. However, the Fix-It Felix —the fictional franchise where Ralph's hero-hating happened— More »

#donkeykong 1,110,100 points. That's the new Donkey Kong high score and it was set by the guy who's dominated Nintendo's arcade classic for two years straight. And he could've gone even higher. More »

#art Artist Jamie Sneddon's 8-bitscapes is a collection of prints showing video game characters let loose in the real world, taking over locations like Cologne, Hong Kong and Manhattan. More »

#angrybirds All it takes is one bike ride to transform Baltimore into a screenshot from the ubiquitous game Angry Birds. More »

#tetris Games like Tetris and Donkey Kong would be so much better with current-gen sound effects, wouldn't they? More »