The Story Of Nintendo's Official Bootleg Game- Explaining Nintendo's Attitude Towards Fan Games

[@leroyvisiongames2294]

In DK, there actually is a visual indication for when the hammer will wear off-it starts to flash yellow for a brief period before it goes away completely.

[@CosmicSponge2004]

This was great. It feels like it's been *YEARS* since I learned something new about Nintendo histiry

[@Demeech]

It definitely is a weird party of Nintendo's history.

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@Demeech In all honesty, I wish Nintendo focused more on shutting down fangames that are purposefully crap (like Crazy Kong and other bootlegs), or fangames that are purposefully taking people's money (Super Mario RPG 2 Kickstarter); rather than fangames that are just made for fun (like moderately good sprite swap romhacks) or fangames that are non-profit and put effort into it (like Mario Forever). Besides, without Mario Forever (and Mario Worker), we wouldn't have Mario Maker.

[@mjwright970]

There also was a bootleg version called "Congorilla" as well.

[@MadSociety-uy6zg]

After seeing what happened with Pac-Man with Midway illegally making sequels and GCC at the time owning the rights to Ms Pac-Man now I don't blame Nintendo for fearing fan games GCC and Midway games stole from Bandai Namco.

[@realreptillianjesus]

Imagine if Nintendo did something similar as to what happened with Sonic Mania. Their community is so creative and talented when it comes to rom hacks and fan games and its a shame how they always go against it because they only see it as pirating their ip.

[@yarc9]

Yeah Sega did sonic mania you forgot that they did sonic forces so nor Nintendo & sega care about the fans so they just want too make money so either buy their shit or don't

[@Demeech]

I think Falcon may have scared them.

[@hessxpress]

dude, imagine a "mario mania"... that would be so cool

[@yarc9]

@@hessxpress not really it would bel like playing mario bros 1 all over again

[@yarc9]

@@hessxpress also Sega criticized for repeating green hill zone over and over again

[@richiecampbell605]

Boy for what I just seen, that bootleg Crazy Kong was the reason why Nintendo has shut down those fan projects in the first place. You know, Nintendo would've embrace the fan games like Sega due to the fans love and passion for their games if Crazy Kong never existed.

[@dragoonman1478]

Intro to the video is perfection. Nintendo has alot of Twitter lawyers

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

Fun fact: Mario's shirt was originally gonna be blue in Super Mario Bros. but they changed it for no exact reason at all Maybe it was for color palette limitations because his art was still blue

[@SoshiTheYoshi]

This is like the Ms. Pac-Man of Donkey Kong. An official rom hack of the original game. Only difference is Ms. Pac-Man is good

[@Demeech]

I would say more like Pac-Man Plus. It's a weirder version of Pac-Man.

[@mrgreenmario64]

From what I've seen, Nintendo doesn't really go after fan games that much, they mainly target remakes or re-imaginings of games that they're currently selling.

[@Demeech]

A mixture of both.

[@desh206]

I love how Nintendo dislike fan games but love their own one

[@yarc9]

You can't make money of fan games meanwhile you can do whatever you want with it if you make it official

[@desh206]

Yeah but is't like if Nintendo made a fan game at their own studio

[@السراقالمجهول]

thats very interesting and a cool piece of nintendo thanks Demeech I would of never know about this without you

[@Demeech]

It was a very bizzare piece of history. Nintendo won't acknowledge it, but I will.

[@mythomaschannelisback2440]

@@Demeech I'm actually trying to find crazy junior Video or a dump Of the game

[@fligugigu6319]

The game was built on the crazy climber engine. No wonder its called CRAZY kong

[@Tricky_Nick]

Demeech, this was a great video! I’ve discovered a similar game in the Super Mario Bros line of games, and this video made me want to talk about it!

[@Demeech]

Send it to me!

[@antonretro]

Excellent video! I never heard about this before. I guess the Kong was perhaps too crazy that they got themselves into legal issues.

[@Demeech]

Donkey Kong surprisingly has so many lawsuits. First this Universal VS. Nintendo claiming that they infringed on King Kong, which they never owned in the first place. Then there was the Crazy Kong lawsuit. Finally, there was the lawsuit with Ikegami Tsushinki after Nintendo broke the agreement and reverse DK to make DK Jr.

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

With the awsome 8 Grand Dad Nintendo knows the impact of bootleg games.

[@Demeech]

It's 7 Grand Dad

[@jamie195]

@@Demeech.

[@TheCoolEevee]

@@Demeech I think he was talking about the fan made sequel to 7 Grand Dad retexturing "The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!": 8 Grand Dad. Either that or it was a typo.

[@arthurpietrogarcia1057]

so what you are saying to me is that if bird let monke be only in japan, red company would let us use jumpy man?

[@lemonadesnake]

3:27 Groose is a monumental step towards gaming. Without him, gaming would never be the same. Thank you Groose.

[@mjdxp5688]

I remember playing this at an arcade once and had no clue what it actually was. Good video!

[@Awoken_YKW_Fan9001]

Crazy Kong is what killed Wrinkly Kong. (In a forest, like a wild bear)

[@Nic_2751]

Oh yeah now I remember about this weird little adaptation, thanks for the reminder!

[@Demeech]

Of course!

[@kbramlett6877]

You cannot forget the lawsuit that Universal Studios filed against NOA for copyright infringement. When the lawsuit was filed, the production of the cabinets was stopped, the Saturday morning cartoon by Ruby-Spears was taken off the air, and all merchandise had to cease production. It was a big deal. Universal Studios claimed that the story of DK infringed upon the story of King Kong. You know, a big gorilla snatching a girl and carrying her to the top of a building. At the time Nintendo was a relatively small company here in the States, and Universal knew this and thought that they had this lawsuit in the bag. Their overconfidence did them in. NOA's lawyer, John Kirby, discovered that Universal Studios had let their copyright of King Kong expire in the mid-70s. This cost Universal Studios big. Every company that produced DK merchandise had to be compensated, and CBS had to be compensated for the loss of ad revenue (the cartoon was on their network) But it was Nintendo that Universal Studios owed big time for complete loss of revenue because of the lawsuit. On a different note, Nintendo paid homage to their lawyer, John Kirby by naming that little pink puff-ball that likes to inhale things after him. Mr. Kirby was even presented with the very first copy of Kirby's Adventure for the NES. From what I remember, as soon as the copy was shrinkwrapped, it went straight to him. Just think, if Mr. Kirby had not discovered what he did regarding the expiration of Universal's copyright, one of Nintendo's beloved characters who has been in a multitude of games would have never of existed.

[@tweakPTCG]

they just didn't know how much fangames have changed since the 80s i mean they are so much worse compares to what exist today

[@yarc9]

Fan games are not even official why bother make fan games if you can't make money of them just make your own games and sell them that way so more people can play it

[@Demeech]

@@yarc9 Passion projects. That's why.

[@matthewhunt5943]

We need more story videos!

[@Demeech]

Any requests?

[@matthewhunt5943]

@@Demeech the story of bandai namco developed nintendo games like Mario super sluggers and starfox assualt.

[@alkohallick2901]

I played this at a local pizza place that had it. Great memories!!!!

[@stephenmystery8313]

I'm not sure if you still care, but this is indeed Crazy Junior. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2fKq6euo9KnaqM I specifically remember running into it.

[@moltenfreddythepiratechann7148]

For some reason I can't find any information about falcon industries.

[@sreb6225]

The thing I still can't understand is why did they remake it. I mean, why didn't they just copy the board from donkey kong and distribute their licenced cabinets as Donkey Kong units?

[@esdrasImayInotguy3481]

5:19 Based favorite color here

[@Lego_Weegee_Good]

He's definetly crazy also FINNAly a fact that you never knew about mario

[@Demeech]

I didn't know this until a fan pointed it out years ago.

[@Lego_Weegee_Good]

@@Demeech yay

[@Jeremiah2006YT]

This Game's overall rating is a 5/10

[@Demeech]

Fair. It's still Donkey Kong but looks messed up.

[@Awoken_YKW_Fan9001]

This is gonna be great!

[@Demeech]

What did you think?

[@Awoken_YKW_Fan9001]

@@Demeech It was pretty great! Also pretty cool and unexpected since I've never heard about Crazy Kong and the story behind it.

[@minermole101]

Did not expect this from Nintendo

[@Demeech]

Me neither. I thought it was a bootleg until a fan pointed it out.

[@thedubstepdoge]

Wow this was really interesting

[@thefinaldasher]

So thats maybe how nintendo got strict woth fan games

[@Swole_Joel]

Ronald vs Mario was my favorite game ngl I think Arnold should try it

[@Demeech]

It's really not Ronald VS. Mario. Mario is working for Ronald.

[@Fonz128]

It’s on like Crazy Kong

[@Demeech]

So you're gonna maul someone?

[@peanutbutterjeff5364]

Personally, I prefer Crazy Kong. The physics are a bit looser, and feel better than those in Donkey Kong, at least in my opinion. I’ve always been more of a DK Jr. person myself, but I’d never pass up Crazy Kong if I saw it somewhere somehow.

[@newsmash638]

I have no words

[@Demeech]

Any words now?

[@newsmash638]

@@Demeech no

[@SaviTheGamer]

0:41 your fan base is... interesting to say the least

[@Demeech]

That was one guy. Most are chill.

[@JaggedBird]

Crazy Kong? O... OH N O

[@Demeech]

😂

[@blakeskit]

NOOO I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL NIGHT NIPPON

[@Demeech]

That isn't a bootleg and doesn't fall into the bootleg grey area.

[@mythomaschannelisback2440]

I have a crazy junior cab i have pictures too

[@lorensmith8861]

Chintendo, the bootleg Nintendo.

[@Amiiben]

nice video

[@zan7737]

Crazy Kong is mentally insane.

[@doctormodder]

Turns out the origin story of why Nintendo hates fangames is basically like Adam and Eve. Falcon had one rule to follow and chose not to do so and affected Nintendo fan projects as a whole. Sega is basically Jesus since you can make fangames and fan remakes as long as no profit is involved. Basically this just gave "Christian Sonic" a reason to exist.

[@rdzreborn2k7kt]

Has nintendo ever cause bodly harm to people who make fan games?

[@horsermchead2504]

This video seems a little bit stolen from the Amiiben one

[@Handicappuccinofinace-nv2bt]

I would wait to video call slim Kirby my finance Twitter account or I could just say that I am disabled

[@oh-facts]

mad

[@Awoken_YKW_Fan9001]

-ness combat

[@mariomaster101official]

This is upsetting

[@Demeech]

It's more weird than anything.

[@rubiks_20]

why does your logotype make your username look like it starts with a B