[Coco] OT: Video game documentaries

[Joel Ewy]

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> I've just finished watching a documentary about Donkey Kong and the contests
> to be the world champion.
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
>
> I remember playing the coco version (Donkey King??) or something similar,
> from Spectral or Spectrum Associates, for many many hours,
> Prior to getting the coco I had spent a lot of money in the arcades loosing
> it to the game programmer ;-)
> For some reason, I didn't get quite obsessed with Donkey Kong, but the coco
> version of Robottron ate up a few years of my life.
>
> Does anyone know if Donkey Kong used off-the-shelf cpus or a custom cpu?
>   

Um, does this mean you haven't seen Sockmaster's Donkey Kong? 
http://www.axess.com/twilight/sock/dk/

Sock says it was originally a Z80.

JCE

> For those into video game documentaries, here's a great one about Atari &
> the 2600.
> http://www.onceuponatari.com/
> Many of the game programmers are interviewed in this, it's quite
> interesting.
>
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