Crazy Kong (Scramble Hardware) 224200 [M.A.M.E]

Arcade Video game published 41 years ago:

Crazy Kong [Scramble hardware] © 1981 Unknown.

Crazy Kong is an arcade game created by Falcon, released in 1981.

Crazy Kong [ckongs] played on wolfMAME238. Interesting version of Crazy Kong due mainly to the bright neon colours

It is similar to Nintendo's Donkey Kong. Although commonly believed to be a bootleg version, the game was officially licensed for operation in Japan when Nintendo couldn't keep up with demand at home (even though Donkey Kong was still released in Japan), and is based on different hardware. the game retains all the gameplay elements of Donkey Kong, but has all of the graphics redrawn and re-colourized.

Falcon breached their contract by exporting the cabinets overseas, leading Nintendo to revoke the license in January 1982. Like the original game, Crazy Kong had bootleg versions under such titles as Congorilla, Big Kong, Donkey King and Monkey Donkey.

There are two versions of the original: Crazy Kong and Crazy Kong Part II. The differences between them are in minor cinematic artefacts and bugs, colour palette choices and minor gameplay differences; the first part then shows no copyright or company name on the title screen. Both run on modified Crazy Climber hardware; there are other versions that run on Scramble, Jeutel, Orca, and Alca hardware. The official Crazy Kong came in two stand-up cabinets featuring a large and angry (rather than comic) ape; they were manufactured by Zaccaria (also Italian distributor of the game).

This Bootleg version of Falcon's "Crazy Kong - Part II" has additional in game music, also the original 'Warp to level 2' trick doesn't work.

You can view Amiiben's history of Crazy Kong video below:
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