This is an “old” Intellivision game. You can see “Donkey Kong” on the Intellivision box. It’s a European video game. In particular, it’s a video game from the U.K. You can see the horror. Donkey Kong looks really mean. Even Mario looks very, very different. I can imagine this picture on HD TV. From a historical perspective, this horror version of “Donkey Kong” looks like a vintage circus advertisement. You know? The old, vintage “circus” advertisement? The Intellivision box looks like an “old” circus advertisement. Old circus advertisements would present us with funny images of wild, aggressive animals. Those old circus advertisements were not always photographs, or, photos as we know them. Minimal abstract art was used to reveal the meaning of zoo animals. Don’t just think Donkey Kong. Think “Barnum’s Animal Crackers”. That is, “zoo animals”, as in animals in human ownership for entertainment and amusement, perhaps at a circus, or, an amusement park. Nintendo did “look” at Donkey Kong with changes over the years. Today, Nintendo fans would not consider this “Donkey Kong” to be Donkey Kong at all. But, here is the Intellivision game from the U.K. for Donkey Kong. I’m afraid of putting the U.K. game cartridge into my American Intellivision video game console for safety reasons because my American Intellivision console might not work with the U.K. game cartridge, and, the American video game console is refurbished. This game I have is brand new. Nothing is fake; it’s the real thing.
https://www.deviantart.com/gameuniverso/art/The-Real-Donkey-Kong-910849918
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