Beyond Donkey Kong

Before the enormously successful NES console changed the video game landscape in the 1980s, Nintendo became famous for producing legendary arcade machines like Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. Drawing on original interviews, news reports and other documents, this book traces Nintendo's rise from a small business that made playing cards to the top name in the arcade industry. Twenty-eight game titles are examined in-depth, along with the people and events that defined the company for more than four decades.

Before the enormously successful NES console changed the video game landscape in the 1980s, Nintendo became famous for producing legendary arcade machines like Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. Drawing on original interviews, news reports and other documents, this book traces Nintendo's rise from a small business that made playing cards to the top name in the arcade industry. Twenty-eight game titles are examined in-depth, along with the people and events that defined the company for more than four decades.

Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo's flagship products--anticipated to be Nintendo's Sonic. This book features all the maps, codes, tips, and strategy to successfully take Donkey and Diddy Kong through the numerous levels of jungles, mines, caves, snowy mountains, and underwater sequences. The book profiles each character, including Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and the Evil Kremlings--a pack of creepy crocodile/alligator evildoers. Includes colorful characters and scenes from the game. (Games)

Swing along with Donkey, Diddy and Donkey Kong, Jr. as they continue their adventure in Donkey Kong Country. Eat bananas, jump on barrels, and fight a myriad of villains as you play surprising new levels.

Long before it took the home video game console market by storm, Sega was already an arcade powerhouse. Parlaying its dominance in coin-operated machines into the home video game boom of the 1980s, the Japan-based company soon expanded with branches in Europe and the U.S., and continues to lead the gaming industry in design and quality. Drawing on interviews with former developers and hundreds of documents, this history follows the rise of Sega, from its electromechanical machines of the mid-1960s to the acquisition of Gremlin Industries to its 2003 merger with Sammy Corporation. Sixty-two of Sega's most popular and groundbreaking games are explored.