The thing that amazes me to this day about Atari 2600 games (particularly a game like Donkey Kong) is that each game only had a total of 128bytes (not kilobytes) for graphics and gamestate.

Crane played a role in games like Pitfall and Dragster, while Garry Kitchen's biggest game may have been Donkey Kong on Atari 2600. Dan Kitchen helped develop the 2600 versions of both ...

To mimic a typical brain study, they examined three types of "behaviors" for the Atari 2600 in the form of three different games: "Donkey Kong," "Space Invaders" and "Pitfall!" ...

I t’s hard for many people—me included—to appreciate 1980s games if we weren’t around to play them in their prime. However, ...

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 is a sad example of a great game. In the arcade version, there are four levels, but in this version, the graphics have been over simplified, ...

Donkey Kong Country Turns 25: ... Ever since Mattel chose to sell the Intellivision platform by proclaiming its incredible graphical realism relative to Atari's 2600 ...

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Let me tell you about a moment in world five of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. It's a little late in the game, but it's oh so typical (and not a spoiler, unless you count the placement of ...

Some of the available games include Donkey Kong, Space Invaders and Pac-Man. Like the original Atari 2600, they look simple and come with low quality graphics representative of the earlier years ...

Garry Kitchen's unlikely story is told in this excerpt from the book Arcade Perfect. Read the whole story ...