Atari 400/800 Donkey Kong Easter Egg Unearthed

[Macawmoses]

Here it is.

1. Play a game and get a score of 33,000 through 33,900. This score must become the new high score.

2. Kill off all of your remaining lives. However, your last life must be killed off by falling too far - by walking or jumping off a girder that is too high to land safely. If the last life is killed any other way, the egg will not appear.

3. Set the game difficulty to 4 by pressing the Option button 3 times. The icon for this difficulty is a firefox.

4. Wait a few minutes, and the demo screen where Kong jumps across the screen will appear.

5. The title screen will then appear, and Landon Dyer's initials [LMD] will be at the bottom center of the screen.

It's not that fantastic at all. But, it's new. And old. I may look at trying to find it myself.

[Tupin]

Hm, I should pick up a cheap cart now that I have an 800XL.

[Macawmoses]

Yeah. It's really an odd match of title and system.

[Tupin]

Oddly enough, it's one of the few versions with all four levels, even the NES version doesn't have the pie factory in it.