Donkey Kong

Summer is traditionally the dead part of the video game calendar. It’s almost as if companies understand people are spending more time outside in warmer weather, so they don’t necessarily plan blockbuster releases to keep folks from soaking…

Going to the bathroom is (hopefully) not a memorable part of your trip to a theme park or resort. However, the bathrooms in Super Nintendo World—with their wonderful, chill music—seem so good that you’ll be excited when nature calls. What…

Image: Nintendo / KotakuFans have been waiting for Nintendo to launch a Switch 2 for years now. It was reportedly due out sometime in 2024 before getting delayed to next year. And while the company recently hinted that the Switch successor…

After the welcome reception of the Super Mario RPG remake just three months ago, Nintendo is back with another remake in the form of Mario vs. Donkey Kong. The original 2004 title on the Game Boy Advance was a charming puzzle platformer…

Screenshot: Universal Studios JapanAt Universal Studios Japan, Super Nintendo World’s “jumping” Donkey Kong ride puts visitors in the mine-cart action of the video game, broken tracks and all. That’s right, you’ll be experiencing a very…

If it feels like Nintendo has put a ton of Mario on the menu lately, there’s a clear explanation for the boom of Italian-American fare—and it’s not that the Feast of San Gennaro is coming up. Not long after its April debut, The Super Mario…

You would never guess it, but The Strong National Museum of Play in the great, gray Rust Belt city of Rochester, New York houses the world’s largest operational Donkey Kong arcade machine. It’s almost 20 feet tall, says a press release from…

For a long time, perhaps due to the infancy of the medium, there was no “right” way to advertise home video games. As a result, some of the earliest video game companies—including some we now recognize as major industry players, like…

Image: Nintendo / Universal / KotakuThe Super Mario Bros. Movie is officially out on DVD and Blu-ray. To promote it, Universal Pictures has released some new behind-the-scenes videos about the blockbuster animated adaptation of Nintendo’s…

Image: Universal PicturesNintendo has gotten a lot of flack in the past few years for failing to credit contributors by name, and it seems like this trend continues into The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The DK rap is attributed to “Donkey Kong…