Throwback Gaming Donkey Kong/Space Invadors

Throwback Gaming Donkey Kong/Space Invadors

Mason Cotelesse, Editor

Space Invader’s is an arcade game that was made in the 1970’s and was popularized by Japan. It was later licensed for release in the United States later in the 1980’s. It was made for the Taito 8080 arcade system in Japan. Space Invaders is a two dimensional game where you are a small spaceship and you destroy aliens invading earth. More and more aliens spawn each round until you cannot keep up  with their attack and they destroy the planet your trying desperately to protect.

Donkey Kong is an arcade game released in 1981 which was developed for the Nintendo gaming system. Donkey Kong was a maneuver based game where you jump over barrels thrown by a Big Gorilla named Donkey Kong. The objective of the game is to save a Princess from the clutches of the Gorilla. As you climb the rails, every level it gets bigger, and he throws more barrels per second. When you get to the final level, it consists of five stages. At the end of the stages or the (final five stages)-the 22nd level it is known as the “kill screen”.  The goal is to eliminate Donkey Kong. There is an coding error within the games engine where Mario is killed every time you get to level 22.