Tag: donkey kong

  • Industry Legend Hiroshi Yamauchi Dies, Aged 85

    Known for his controversial decisions and an iron will to match, Hiroshi Yamauchi is responsible for Nintendo’s growth from a simple card company into a video game empire. After radical success with the portable Game and Watch series, Mr. Yamauchi took a chance and assigned hardware designer Gunpei Yokoi to mentor a plucky young concept…

  • The King of Kong

    Friday. Game release day. I thought there was only one thing worthy of my cash this weekend, namely Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but I was very much mistaken. I bought a copy of critically acclaimed documentary ‘The King of Kong’ as well and watched it last night. The bottom line is that it’s a fantastic…

  • When the going gets tough

    It’s perfectly natural to be honest about your own failings once in a while and I’m in that kind of mood today, so here it goes… I am a sucker for insanely difficult games, yet I am absolutely terrible at most of them. I hear about a game which is lauded as being brilliant, yet…