![]() ![]() While the game seems solid, it appeared to suffer from bad advertising leading to poor sales. Spearheaded by forum-goers famicomical and aitsu124, a pool of money was collected from other members to purchase the game since it’s decently expensive – most likely to do with its rarity. While dumps of the NEC ports are still at large themselves, we can now at least check the X1 off the list thanks to members of the FamicomWorld forum. While an NES port of the arcade game did surface as expected – in a move that seems foreign to the modern gaming landscape, Nintendo licenced its IP (as well as others) to Hudson Soft for the purpose of developing ports of its game on Japanese home computers.ĭonkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack (or “Dai Gyakushuu”, in its hometown) was one such result of this partnership being ported by Hudson to the Sharp X1 as well as NEC’s PC-8801 and PC-6001 in 1984. One such straggler was a port of Donkey Kong 3. ![]() If you think about, several hundred thousand official games (not including homebrews and hacks) have probably been released over the decades after all. While it’s true that a significant percentage has been ‘dumped’ over time starting in the 90’s, there are most definitely some stragglers out there. If you’ve always just assumed that every game has been backed up in digital form for all (and future generations) to play, you’d be wrong. ![]() When you think of game emulation in general terms, do you expect that everything is available to play? Clearly, no one who works for this website/magazine has ever traversed a legally dubious ROM site to see for themselves, but we’re under good authority that most include thousands of ROMs. ![]()
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