Podcasts Leisure Video Game History Hour 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

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 8 a.m.

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Garry Kitchen joins the podcast to discuss his lifelong career in gaming and how spending his summer of 1982 porting Nintendo\\u2019s Donkey Kong over to the Atari 2600 was tedious, but worth it. He\\u2019d also like you to know he\\u2019s a hell of a good ROM hacker, Mario\\u2019s eye is just a void, and you\\u2019re darn right he slanted those ramps.

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See more from Garry Kitchen:

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Twitter: @kitchengarry

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Medium: https://garrykitchen.medium.com/

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Website: garrykitchen.com

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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/

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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/

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