{"id":7637,"date":"2013-08-02T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2013-08-02T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T17:24:34","slug":"out-of-quarters-watch-this-amazing-stop-motion-version-of-the-original-donkey-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/out-of-quarters-watch-this-amazing-stop-motion-version-of-the-original-donkey-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Quarters? Watch this Amazing Stop Motion Version of the Original Donkey Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/donkeykong_stopmotion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7638\" alt=\"Donkey Kong stop motion\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/donkeykong_stopmotion.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/donkeykong_stopmotion.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/donkeykong_stopmotion-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rejoice, fellow gamers. Thanks to French blogger Guiz de Pessemier, we can finally watch <em>Donkey Kong<\/em> being played the way it was always meant to played&#8230; as an intricate frame-by-frame stop-motion reenactment!<\/p>\n<p>Using custom made pixel art constructed out of Perler beads, the dedicated Kong-thusiast recreated all the original 8-bit characters and backgrounds. He then painstakingly animated three levels from the game with such flawless precision that you&#8217;d think he must have been wearing a Power Glove while doing so. Don&#8217;t believe me? Check it out for yourself!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxDjuHVGXQY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen impressive high scores and speed runs and perfect games before, but even the likes of Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, and that creepy little kid from <em>The<\/em> <em>Wizard<\/em> can&#8217;t compete with this. No, I think it&#8217;s safe to say Guiz is the real &#8220;King of Kong&#8221; now.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out, he doesn&#8217;t just stop there.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, here&#8217;s some <em>Final Fantasy<\/em> stop-motion for your viewing pleasure as well. Watching characters politely taking turns to attack their enemy has never been more exciting!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7scdw4LN5-w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And be sure to check out Guiz&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/guizdp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guizdp\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube channel<\/a> for more cool video game related videos, news, and reviews. I can&#8217;t wait to see what 8-bit classic he tackles next. My suggestion: the NES version of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hudson_Hawk_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Hudson Hawk<\/em><\/a>. Why? Because, somehow, that&#8217;s a thing that exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejoice, fellow gamers. Thanks to French blogger Guiz de Pessemier, we can finally watch Donkey Kong being played the way it was always meant to played&#8230; as an intricate frame-by-frame stop-motion reenactment! Using custom made pixel art constructed out of Perler beads, the dedicated Kong-thusiast recreated all the original 8-bit characters and backgrounds. He then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[272,641,642,142,25],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-animation","tag-donkey-kong","tag-final-fantasy","tag-nintendo","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}