donkey kong Archives - PS https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/tag/donkey-kong/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:06:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 207447804 All About Donkey Kong https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/all-about-donkey-kong/ https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/all-about-donkey-kong/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:52:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2007/06/26/all-about-donkey-kong/ Like a lot of kids, I was arcade obsessed in 1982, I even recall buying magazines about Donkey Kong. The kid who got Colecovision could guarentee popularity for much of 1983 (this expired by ’84)Those table top arcade games by Coleco that inspired hours of drooling for me. I remember really liking the commercials featuring […]

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Like a lot of kids, I was arcade obsessed in 1982, I even recall buying magazines about Donkey Kong. The kid who got Colecovision could guarentee popularity for much of 1983 (this expired by ’84)Those table top arcade games by Coleco that inspired hours of drooling for me. I remember really liking the commercials featuring “Video Man”, who would use his powers to shrink the arcade games to table top size.

videoman from colecovision
The years have not been kind to Video Man, with his supercuts hairstyle and silver members only jacket he looks kind of like a dorky uncle you avoid at family reunions. Again, the memory cheats…

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