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Top: Episode 114 of Futurama contains a Donkey Kong arcade reference where Professor Farnsworth is seen jumping over barrels in a landscape containing visual elements from the Mario series. In addition to the obvious references such as the Super Mario Bros. ground blocks and Warp Pipe, there are two more obscure ones.
Bottom left: Farnsworth’s pose is, in particular, a reference to Mario’s pose in the title screen of the Apple II version of Donkey Kong.
Bottom right: The clouds in the background are a reference to the cloud graphics used in the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, known internationally as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, with the smiles changed to frowns.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: 1, 2, 3
Advertisement for Donkey Kong Country cartoon merchandise from the Japanese Corocoro magazine.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: Corocoro (Japan), 2000/03
Donkey Kong 64 contains a variable that determines where the next room transition should take the playable character, with a map of values for each room in the game, including cutscene-only rooms. By modifying the variable during runtime, these rooms can be visited during gameplay.
One of these rooms is the one the DK Rap takes place in when the game starts. Above is how the DK Rap room appears if it is entered in this manner. All characters and objects present in the scene do not move and are not solid, with the exception of the boulder, which can be picked up by Chunky Kong.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, Donkey Kong 64 (NA, N64) in N64 emulator
In the June 1994 issue of Nintendo Power, which released in the same month as Donkey Kong for the Game Boy (also known as Donkey Kong ‘94), this screenshot is present. It depicts a battle against a boss called the Giant Squirrel; no such battle is found in the finished game, where the only bosses are Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.
What is particularly odd about this is that despite being published so close to the game’s release and being ostensibly a screenshot of a version very close to the finished version, not even the graphics for the Giant Squirrel or its arena are present in the game’s data. In the last month before release, for an unknown reason, the Giant Squirrel was completely scrubbed from the game’s memory.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: Nintendo Power (US), Issue 61, 1994
King Kong/Donkey Kong crossover artwork from an issue of Electronic Games magazine.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: Electronic Games (US), Issue 3, 1982
