The Strong museum’s planned 20-foot tall Donkey Kong arcade cabinet will use regularly-sized controls for users on the ground. The rest will be made with aluminum and MDF fiberboard. Image ...

(Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images) The beloved arcade game Donkey Kong turns 40 years old this month. First released by Nintendo in July 1981 to Japanese audiences, it became a mainstream hit in the ...

The new DK design is almost a combination of Nintendo's original design, which appeared on various Donkey Kong arcade cabinets, and Rare's design, which has carried through series other than ...

Or he’ll simply just be the tutorial. Cranky is typically portrayed as the original Donkey Kong from the 1981 arcade classic, now older and wiser (but no less side-splittingly bitter).

Nicole Clark (she/her) is a culture editor at Polygon, and a critic covering internet culture, video games, books, and TV, with work in the NY Times, Vice, and Catapult. According to the release ...

The Strong National Museum of Play in New York unveiled an absolutely massive Donkey Kong arcade cabinet that's nearly 20 feet tall. Donkey Kong is co-starring in the biggest movie in the world ...

Nintendo "provided input" to The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, on its plan to build a 20-foot-tall "Donkey Kong" arcade cabinet. The museum has shared a render of what is ...

The extra attention was worth it. If you’ve never played it, Donkey Kong ‘94 might seem to be a simple collection of arcade-style stages. It’s not. It’s one of the most meta and innovative ...

Recently, The Strong Museum announced plans to create a 20-foot tall playable Donkey Kong arcade cabinet as part of its upcoming June 30 expansion. On social media, The Strong Museum noted that ...