The fact that they were able to turn a simple arcade game to a full-on 101-level adventure is freakin amazing

One of the most important portable games ever. A truly portable masterpiece.

I love how it starts out running through each screen of the original Donkey Kong. Then when you knock out the last rivet on what would be the last screen of the original and the victory music starts to play Kong knocks mario off the platform onto his head and runs off with Pauline like "SURPRISE, THIS AINT THE SAME GAME". Then it dumps you into a map screen and the real game starts. Such a great intro.

I remember my friend in school telling me he had the game and how boring and stale it was and that he couldn't even get to the top level (at the time we didn't know that those were recreations of the Donkey-Kong-Arcade, because we didn't have Arcades in Germany). I showed him all the different jumps and things he could do and we breezed through the first four levels. He was amazed after that and then really got into the game, luckily. Honestly one of the greatest games for the Game Boy. I'm still amazed at how versatile the controls are, and how goofy and charmingly detailed everything is for a small Game-Boy-game!

Man I haven't played this since I was a kid. So many sound effects instantly brought back memories.

Despite the platform and era, Donkey Kong for Gameboy remains to this day one of, if not the best action puzzlers available. To think I bought it expecting it to have only three infinitely cycling stages.

This game is still so adorable and charming!

Probably the most underrated game ever made

3:48 Donkey Kong: "HA! You thought it was over, didn't you?!"

17:05 "Screw the rules, you ain't trappin' me!"

And many years later, Pauline becomes the mayor of the Big City and is one of the greatest singers of the century.

3:48 - and so, they lived happily ev- huh? HEY, WAIT A MINUTE?!

This game... so many memories

I will never forget how world 8 and big DK boss become very frustrating to me,but once i beated it,i was sooo releaved. The graphics are mind blowing for a gameboy with lots of details ,good sound effects and well fitted music,alltrough those new tunes will be not as memberble as those mario games but they are decent those donkeykong tunes.

Man I love this game. I got it in the mid 90s thinking it was literally just the arcade game. I’d played the original Donkey Kong on my dad’s friend’s old console of some sort. When level 4 rolled into Big City I was blown away. Then it just keeps doing for like 90 levels that keep expanding in complexity. Such a brilliant time.

This game features gameplay elements from Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Super Mario Bros. 2.

This is the greatest masterpiece ever made!

And so, the Mario Vs. Donkey Kong series was born

This was one of my childhood games, I spent a LOT of time playing this. It probably took me weeks/months to beat it then. I had the Super Game Boy too which enhanced it. I still remember all the tunes and sounds.

When I got this game when I was young I could not get over it was more than the original donkey kong. My fave game back then.

Your first attempt on 5-10 cracked me up. :P

I remember playing this when I was a kid. I never played the arcade so back then I had no clue this was the original donkey kong but greatly expanded to brand new levels and amazing movesets. What an amazing game.

This is a blast from my childhood. Amazing. If you've never played this game, pick up a ROM of it and give it a shot. This was amazing gaming for the GB back then.

One of my all time favorites. Thanks for the upload, cubex55.

I love how it starts out old school then turns into a big adventure

I love the rhythmical sounds Mario does when he walks. I'm glad they kept that from the original game.

One of the rare examples where they took the original and improved upon it in every way.

I like how the game started from the original Arcade to a hardcore adventure that got harder with each level! Very cool game!

I had this game for the original Gameboy and is one of all time favorites for the Gameboy. It's now available for the 3-DS in the E-shop.

*The End* Thanks again for another awesome longplay Cubex55

My father beat this game back in the day, I was too young to pull of the acrobatics required in the later levels^^

Thank You Mario! But Pauline is in Another Castle!

I love this game so much!

one of my favorite games, love the level design

I wish this game was remade for Nintendo Switch with Ukiki being the 2 player character I know we already have Mario vs Donkey Kong being remade but this game was a perfect start of the series

This game is incredible and its soundtrack is amazing !!

Ah... those funny cutscenes i just simply love them awesome play ! 8D

Ahhhh, the star game of the Super Game Boy when that came out. Such fine memories

Hard to believe this game's 20 years old!

thanks, real thanks to you, i found out about that game from my early years. I don't know how to express my gratefuls expressions to you man. I even taunted a friend who says he rocks any mario to this game on an emulator. Hell yeah, many thanks.

I have this on my 2DS and this is probably my favorite Game Boy game

When I first played this game, I had already played the NES Donkey Kong on e-Reader for Game Boy Advance and the arcade version at a Dave and Busters. I was well familiar with the game to not expect many surprises. So when I got this game at a flea market, I thought it was just going to be a port of the arcade version. I didn't know of any of Mario's special abilities in this game, so I was just playing it like regular Donkey Kong. You can imagine my surprise when the game didn't reset to the beginning, but instead, I was barely getting started

I once completed this in a day. It took me 2 & a half hours from start to finish non-stop & I collected every piece for the bonus roulette where you get extra lives.

fav donkey kong game

Nice to see the game boy version of Donkey Kong starts up with the classic original Donkey Kong with the pie factory level in there as well

13:42 oh look now we’re playing donkey Kong junior

This the game I grew up with playing 24/7 on my purple game boy.

I remembering beating this game. I never felt more proud of myself.

I just tried this game a week ago to see what all the fuss was about, and now I get it. Superb game.

Stage 9-8: Dat music...

I didnt know this game was in color. I remember when I was a kid back in the late 90s we had a game boy but this was the only game we had for it. I spent sooo many hours and wasted so many AA batteries tryna beat this game. So many memories!

Haven't seen this game in like 5 years! It was pretty tough and long! but fun game

The games like a movie with the music and sound effects!

This game was so great... so many levels too

tht was the best game back then like, lasted ages and was well fun

totoriole stage intro 1:50 level 1-1 2:05 level 1-2 2:29 level 1-3 2:58 level 1-boss1/1 3:21 fake ending 3:40 totoriole complit 4:00

The music on those tower levels was boss!

The game maybe fun but it's hard,i saw those cool commercials back in 1994 but i first played this game in 2001 on an emulator, i was amezed about those graphics & sound effects.but just like SMB2 & sml3/wl1 it feels soooo different that i like to play it once in a whale.

World Of Longplays You Are EPIC!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the best games ever made on Gameboy

"i thought you heard screams when you see "help" so im not sure if thats missing, oh and no music at the end credits, thought there was." The sound effects that were added for the Super GameBoy (Pauline's screams and the end credits music) may not work properly on a GB emulator - but they do exist on a real Super GameBoy. It also comes with a sweet "original arcade" border around the screen ... DK '94 was one of the first Super GB games, and the one who made the best use of its capabilities.

Interesting fact: the beat is used in both stages Jungle and Rocky Valley. But different melodies.

In stage 5-10 I used a glitch to get the key right next to the door. ^^ Glad to see what you build here ^^

Hahaha that Yolo jump at 5-10... nailed it!

22:12 ..... My childhood never was to figure that out as a child... ive litterally always wanted to know how it was done... i feel complete now... you use the path to move the gomba.... genius....

Played this game as a kid, it was pretty fun.

Also... 3:47 - Your quest is only beginning!

Donkey Kong's Gameboy Version has a LOT more stages than the original Arcade version. That surprises me!

This game is so much fun. Lol @ the big city theme music. I use hummm this theme music when a big fat person was near me

1:40:08 - Epic fight music!! 1:41:50 - MEGA EPIC FIGHT MUSIC!!

This game is a piece of cake to me

The Nostalgia is real!

Yo Nintendo needs to make a remake mario odyssey was close but I barely found out about this game today and them jump moves had me hyped no lie

I remember my buddy and I would take turns clearing stages on my gameboy pocket at school/recess yard.

Thnx this really helped. I was stuck on lvl 3-6

On the black&white GameBoy you'll hear a (simple) end credits tune, but Pauline's screams for help are replaced by a screechy "bleep" sound so you're not missing much. From a graphical point of view, the Super GB version of this game is a lot easier on the eyes, so you made the right choice anyway. ;0)

I used to have this game. I only ever completed it once though. Man some of those later levels were a pain.

this is in the time where we took on Cranky Kong when he was young, and it was Mario's father that we were playing as. which means that the Mario up to Mario Bros were Mario Sr.

That was an ARCADE classic.

This long play is missing Pauline's screams and the end music. Gameboy Donkey Kong is a Super Gameboy game, compatible with Gameboy Color and Gameboy. Super Gameboy features include: preselected color palettes, a special 16-color palette mode, a special border used for display to TV, and an extra (digital) sound channel. You can obviously see the 16-color title screen and preselected level color palettes in this game-- so this is being played on a Super Gameboy or similar. This game also replaces the sound effect for Pauline's scream with a (rather funny) digital tell of Help! and the end music is replaced by digital music. Whatever platform this long play was played on did not handle the digital sound channel as the yell and end music are replaced but nothing plays. (I played the heck outta this game the summer before I went to college.)

As a kid, I found this game extremely hard. The farthest that I ever got with it was the "Ship" stages.

Damn, this soundtrack gets underestimated. Especially the chase music after you clear a "Donkey Kong" stage.

Use to play this game religiously when I was younger.

Wow, i remember this from back in the day... such a classic.

I grew up with Mario vs. Donkey Kong. I never knew this game existed!

Mario's gotta go fast

3:48 Donkey Kong said, “I am NOT going classic anymore!!!” Sorry, Mario, but this is only the beginning...

This guy is GOOD!

play this game alot when I was a Kid :D

I really hope someone out there remasters this game for PC (like the Mario 64 PC port), this is such a great game!

Wow. It took this guy nearly 2 hours to beat what took me a month or two as a child.

Damn used to play this game as a kid and loved it so much I was too bad to be able tj finish the game and unfortunately my game doesn't save so I can't try again :((

2:18 - that sound that DK makes and repeats through the game makes me laugh xD

Man, I've never seen a plumber dash so fast through an open door.

The final boss is so cool^^

so this the colored? played it as a kid with b/w gadget. I still remember Mario's moves & some of iconic hard levels. twas so challenging to me that time. phew! nostalgia.

Ah, memories...

So THIS is where the M vs. DK games got some of their stuff from!

Hail Cubex, longplay-KING!

I finished this Just some months ago. It's awesome, one of the best games in GB. I didn't it's a platform game, so I never tried It. The GBA né sport has only the first 4 levels or it's like this game?