Monday MAME Club [08/15/05] - Donkey Kong 3

[Flack]

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Welcome to the Monday Morning MAME Club!

The ROM of the week is: Donkey Kong 3 (available HERE (http://www.robohara.com/mameclub/dkong3.zip)!)
KLOV Link for the game: HERE (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=7611)

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Every Monday, a member of the MAME club will pick a new game for you to play in MAME! All you have to do to participate is install MAME, download the ROM of the week from this message, and then post your thoughts about the game! You can post a full review of the game or simply tell us what you liked/didn't like about the game. Have you played this game before? Have you played it in an actual arcade? Do you like the genre? How did it run on your computer? Did you beat it? If so, how long did it take? What was your high score? How far can you get? Did you have any problems emulating the game? When writing your review, post it right here in the sticky topic and include any thoughts you have about the game. Remember, YOU are the reviewer. Let us know anything and everything you think about the game! Just remember, if you want people to respond during YOUR week, you should play along on OTHER weeks!

Club Members:

digitalpress (Battle Bakraid, Blood Bros)
Gamereviewgod (ESP Ra.De., Gunforce 2)
Wisesalesman (Waku Waku 7, Top Hunter)
scooterb23 (I'm Sorry, Bubbles)
ddockery (Penguin-Kun Wars, Mad Planets)
AlanD (Dr. Micro, n/a)
IntvGene (Strike Force, Rescue)
!!! NE146 (Portman, Donkey Kong 3) !!!
jonjandran (Bronze Adventure)
Flack (Rollergames, Yie-Ar Kung-Fu, Liquid Kids, Ninja Clowns, Great 1000 Mile Rally)
IGotTheDot (N/A)
zektor (Battle Bakraid, Haunted Castle)
buttasuperb (Blazing Star)
chadtower (Berzerk)
Sotenga (Caliber 50)
Stark (Mighty! Pang)
christianscott27 (Darius Gaiden)
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TripppsK (Lady Bug)
vespertillio (Rampart!)
<s>ghsqb</s>
TheSmirk (Bomb Jack)
Flukkake (Elevator Action)
BHvrd (NARC)
ManekiNeko (Battle Circuit)
MarioAllStar2600 (City Bomber)
Ze_ro (Pandora's Palace)
slip81 (Biomechanical Toy)
Qbert (Mysterious Stones)
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Lady Jaye (Chuka Taisen/Cloud Master)
Sofa King Gud (Crossbow)
Schenley (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Kaine23 (Super Burgertime)
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Jiscan (Withdrew)
-hellvin- (Splatterhouse)
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Gamemaster_ca_2003 (Block Out)
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Hovoc (D&D: Shadow Over Mystara)
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A Boy (Satan's Hollow)
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XxMe2NiKxX (Raiden II)
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SuperGunGuru (Tempest)
Cryomancer (Mega Twins)
Red Hedgehog
SuperNES
Raedon
Leroy
Kuros
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RetroYoungen

Remember, you don't have to be a member of the club to download the game and write up a review, but by joining you get the honor of picking a game to share with the group during your week. If you would like to join, simply send me a PM and I will add you to the list!

The current MAME Club Pick of the Week can be found Monday mornings stickied at the top of the main forum, and after that stickied at the top of the Arcade Alley forum.

MAME ON!

[scooterb23]

What an odd game. Donkey Kong is a run & jump platform game, Donkey Kong Junior is a run & jump platform game, Donkey Kong 3 is a...shooter??

And of course the game stars...Stanley...a character that you never see again in a game?

Overall it's a nice little game, but in my opinion, not a very memorable one.

Just for fun to try and kickstart things...my high score so far is 43,300. How much bug spraying can you handle?

[Sotenga]

Granted, DK3 is weird and has nothing in common with the formula that made Donkey Kong and DK Junior so possible (a platformer that, at the time, had varying levels), but I like it nonetheless. It's probably because I'm a sick bastard who takes enjoyment in shooting gas up a monkey's ass (ooh, rhyme time!), but it was a nice change from conventional shooters like Space Invaders, Galaxian, and Galaga.

I agree with Scott in that it's not memorable, but it stands out in my mind for being the only game to ever star Stanley the Bugman. Mark my words, there will be a Stanley's Revenge released for the Revolution where years of the monkey-ass-shooting business grows maddening, so he breaks out of the DK3 machine and goes on a deadly gas-firing rampage! Then people realize that the gas smells like wild strawberries, and he prances around firing it in the faces of the cops, who bust his ass, haul him into the local jail, and is beaten to death by his cellmate, a giant ape. The end. Coming to a store near you early 2006. Starring Keanu Reeves as Stanley and Michael Clarke Duncan as the voice of the Magic Taco.

[Retsudo]

I didnt know this game existed until i saw it for Mame.

The game is not bad, but way off when we think about a Donkey kong game.

[RetroYoungen]

Ehh, it's mediocre in my opinion. It's worth playing, but in the end it's only worth playing to be able to say that you've played it. Enjoyable for a short while, but just doesn't hold the attention like Donkey Kong (and the sequels that still feel like DK) does.

[NE146]

Ok.. there is a reason why I chose this game... I thought it deserved a second chance. I actually HATED it for many many years because like some have already said, it's nothing like Donkey Kong.

Well anyway, it wasn't less than 3 years ago I came to a major paradigm shift about it. It's a friggin SHOOTER in the vein of Galaxian and Galaga! MY GOD it's so obvious yet it escaped me for the longest time. When you view it as a cartoony variation of the standard shooter (and STOP thinking of it as Donkey Kong), it all of a sudden doesn't become so bad and actually gets very fun.

These things helped solidify that in my mind.

#1. You DON'T have to shoot Donkey Kong to clear the stage! This is pretty major (or at least it was a revelation to me). For a long time I thought the game sucked because shooting Kong up the vines felt so one dimensional.

Well, you don't have to. You can clear the stage by killing all the bugs of course! Kong is just like a Boss figure that allows you to clear it faster. In the later stages it gets impossible to shoot him all the way up anyway.

Anyway, that's why I wanted to give this game a second chance. It aint about shooting Donkey Kong. It's about clearing stages of bugs! :D


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:)

[stargate]

call me crazy, but I actually like this game and it does get in the rotation quite often on my PC. I remember when this first came out in the arcades I was like "what the ?" I honestly don't think anyone played this one back in the day and I believe my old arcade got rid of the machine rather quickly.

It gets really hard really fast and the action is quite frantic. It's a unique shooter with some colorful graphics. Plus it's Donkey Kong and that alone makes it cool.

Not many people have played or heard of Donkey Kong 3 so it's a good choice for the MAME club.

[Flack]

Shuffled over to the Arcade Alley.

[kingpong]

I played Donkey Kong 3 far more in the arcades than the other DK games. There's certainly more to the prior games, yet I always found DK3 to be more fun.