Ep. 7: Donkey Kong came to the Atari 2600 thanks to Garry Kitchen
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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’s Donkey Kong over to the Atari 2600 was tedious, but worth it. He’d also like you to know he’s a hell of a good ROM hacker, Mario’s eye is just a void, and you’re darn right he slanted those ramps.
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Twitter: @kitchengarry
Medium: https://garrykitchen.medium.com/
Website: garrykitchen.com
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