I think the "which Donkey King game is the best?" answer will always be very subjective. I prefer the original arcade game myself. I like the fun arcade style gameplay plus for the time this was an amazing looking game. I played the Gameboy version that nightc1 mentioned, but it never really grabbed me. Sure it is much more in depth than the arcade game, but I just like the original arcade gameplay more.
I love GBO Donkey Kong, too, but it’s a very different game than arcade DK. If you take, for instance, SMB2 SNES and compare it to SMB2 GBA, these are effectively the same game—sure, there are some differences, but anyone with any familiarity with either will immediately recognize the other. And a few minor changes, even if we assume they’re universally superior, are not going to make up for the screen crunch going on in the GBA version. The graphic tiles are the same resolution, meaning SMB2 GBA, due to the GBA’s lower screen resolution, cuts off a lot of screen information that would have been visible in SMB2 SNES, which is pretty far from ideal. That’s the biggest problem, but the washed out colors and GBA’s poor sound do make a significant impact on games where the audiovisual presentation makes up a significant portion of the charm.
Original. It’s an anachronistic acronym that’s styled that way to imitate the GBC and GBA acronyms.
Sure, I use DMG in my personal notes, but nobody outside the retro games community is going to have any idea what that means. And people always apply additional identifiers to the original which inspired similarly named successors. It isn’t PS or SMB or AC, it’s PS1 and SMB1 and AC1. GBO is the most commonly used acronym for the system; I don’t see much use in fighting that.
It's GB or DMG.
Not really? The Game Boy line was never numbered, and anachronistic acronyms tend to follow the pattern laid down by successors. Game Boy Color -> GBC, Game Boy Advance -> GBA, Original Game Boy -> GBO. It’s hardly perfect, but I didn’t make it up, and it’s more easily parsed by people who aren’t familiar with the hardware than DMG.
Not till after the PS2 released, making it as much an anachronism as “GBO.” The PS1 is also reasonably commonly referred to as the PSX, and I haven’t the foggiest idea where that one comes from. It’s certainly not from the official Sony PSX product, which was a DVR/PS2 hybrid.
Mass hysteria!
People say PS1 because if you just say Playstation, there's a chance you're talking about the current model. That can also happen with "Nintendo," just because the word is synonymous with gaming in general. No chance of that with the Game Boy since the title has been dead for decades. Also, NES/SNES/N64; GB/GBC/GBA. No need for extra modifiers for the first two respective platforms because there's already zero confusion with those two acronyms.
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Nah. Only Girls Ghostbusters, obv.
You'd be surprised how many people refer to the entire line of Game Boy models (from the DMG to the Game Boy Pocket, the Game Boy Light, the GBC, the GBA, and the Game Boy Micro) as just "Game Boy," actually. It's especially prevalent to conflate the DMG and the GBC together under the moniker "Game Boy," since the GBC was to the DMG essentially what the New 3DS was to the original 3DS, and frankly I prefer "GBO" as a shorthand means of differentiating the older model from the newer, for all its faults, to "old 3DS."
Given some of the other Signature releases, I'm guessing this will get an ESRB release too. Probably LRG, again going off of previous releases.
I'd rather it be at bestbuy but that's 1000x better than it going to lrg and waiting for them.
Nice! You found it before VGP sent an email out. I like buying from VGP. With exchange rate and lack of tax (I usually find something for free shipping), it's typically cheaper.
Especially when they have sales. I got mask of deception from them along with valkyrie profile ds and ff12 ds for a song.
Body of Evidence is the free game today:
Yeah. I missed the first one of the series and didn't want to waste money on buying the first game so I could get the rest free. I have too many other games to play that I can't realistically complete in my lifetime.
I just texted my youngest son (18) this. I'm not sure if he's even aware of the glitch, but it's worth considering.
