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Ep. 7: Donkey Kong came to the Atari 2600 thanks to Garry Kitchen

Ep. 7: Donkey Kong came to the Atari 2600 thanks to Garry Kitchen

FromVideo Game History Hour


Ep. 7: Donkey Kong came to the Atari 2600 thanks to Garry Kitchen

FromVideo Game History Hour

ratings:
Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Nov 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Garry Kitchen joins the podcast to discuss his lifelong career in gaming and how spending his summer of 1982 porting Nintendo’s Donkey Kong over to the Atari 2600 was tedious, but worth it. He’d also like you to know he’s a hell of a good ROM hacker, Mario’s eye is just a void, and you’re darn right he slanted those ramps.
See more from Garry Kitchen:
Twitter: @kitchengarry
Medium: https://garrykitchen.medium.com/
Website: garrykitchen.com
A full transcript of this episode is available on our website: https://gamehistory.org/ep-7-donkey-kong-came-to-the-atari-2600-thanks-to-garry-kitchen/
The Video Game History Hour music is Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Released:
Nov 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Industry experts Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin, co-Directors of the Video Game History Foundation, bring on fellow content creators, game developers, video game historians, and storytellers to teach us a little bit about video game history. Our casual, “chatting over coffee” style interviews let us see the true life of a researcher: bang-your-head-against-a-wall dead-ends, “I can’t believe no one’s told this story before” moments, the thrill of sharing incredible history with the world, and more. Pull up a chair and join us!