Ports
Like most arcade games of this era, this game was ported to many home systems, including the video game consoles NES, Family Computer Disk System, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari XE Game System, ColecoVision, Coleco Adam, Intellivision and BBC Micro. Two Game & Watch versions of the game were also made. One black-and-white version for the New Wide Screen handheld series, and a color version for the Tabletop and Panorama series. The NES version was one of the three launch titles for the system in Japan. This game, along with the original Donkey Kong, was re–released in 1988 in an NES compilation titled Donkey Kong Classics. The NES version of the game was later released on the e-Reader and is now available on the Virtual Console for the Wii. The NES version was also a playable game on Animal Crossing, but required a special password from the official website which is now no longer available. It is now available to all Nintendo 3DS users through the Nintendo eShop in Japan on April 18, 2012 and in North America on June 14, 2012 and has been given away free to the Ambassadors users before the full release.
Interestingly enough, if one plays the Coleco Adam version (that is public domain), one will find that there is a fifth stage exclusive to this port. If the player presses and holds both of the fire buttons, then presses "1-3-2-1-2-1-2" on the keypad, a message will appear stating "Revision 13" (Possibly due to this stage being added on the 13 revision of this game). Basically, it is a kitchen stage. Mario will throw blobs and food at you, while a mixer moves back and forth when a button to the right is pressed.
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Famous quotes containing the word ports:
“It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All places that the eye of heaven visits
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)