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#japan Kotaku's featured Hikakin before with his Street Fighter and Super Mario renditions. Both times were amazing. He's back with a Donkey Kong beatbox. Likewise, it's amazing. More »

#infographic The folks at Ultimate Coupons were nice enough to pass on this video game-dappled infographic featuring the top toys of three decades worth of Christmas holidays. In the true holiday spirit we only tear it apart just a little. More »

#dsi Remember the DSi XL? Sure you do! Nintendo hasn't forgotten it, either. That's way today, Nintendo announced two new bundles for the jumbo-sized DSi handheld. More »

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#donkeykong The top two record-holders for Donkey Kong will try to topple the game's existing all-time high scores tomorrow in a record chase you may watch live. More »

#donkeykong Having nothing better to do, evidently, Denver's Westword set out to chart the comprehensive history of "It's On Like Donkey Kong," and found that Ice Cube has much to do with the social currency of the phrase, whether a call to celebrate or a challenge to fight. It was copyrighted by Nintendo last year. The full graphic is at the link. More »

#lookatthis For its cover of this week's edition (on newsstands today) the Portland Mercury commissioned this painting, an homage to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks with Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto and three characters he introduced to America 30 years ago this week. More »

#donkeykong The high score battle between Donkey Kong pros Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell was immortalized in 2007's The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. And for the past four years, there's been talk of that movie being remade, further fictionalized in a film adaptation of a film. More »

#totalrecall As we celebrate what's (probably? maybe?) Donkey Kong's 30th birthday, let's today take a look at the 1983 court case which nearly brought a premature end to Nintendo's big ape. More »

#arcade Researching the exact birthday for a tribute to the 30th birthday of Donkey Kong, Patrick Scott Patterson of the Arcade Examiner came up with conflicting information. Absent official word from Nintendo, he thinks the big ape—and therefore Mario (né Jumpan)—turned 30 yesterday, July 9. More »

Donkey Kong is an incredible game. One of the best Game Boy titles ever released, it imaginatively expanded 1981's original arcade game of the same name into a brilliant, long-lasting adventure filled with some of the greatest level designs and most satisfying gameplay Nintendo ever managed to pack into one of those little grey cartridges. Playing it again, through the 3DS Virtual Console service, is a wonderful experience...