Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

Todays dose of "huh?" comes from Nintendo, which has suddenly decided to file a request with the US Patent and Trademark Office for the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong." The phrase has been in the popular vernacular for several years, so why Nintendo would want to register it now is... oh wait, Donkey Kong Country Returns comes out this month. There you go.

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is without question the best videogame film of all time. The documentary told the David and Goliath-level struggle over who holds the record for official highest score in Nintendo’s arcade classic Donkey Kong. Billy Mitchell, the mullet-wearing arcade master and the first person to ever “beat” Pac-Man, had held it for decades, but when challenger Steve Wiebe topped it, Billy’s friends at Twin Galaxies, the official high score keepers for all games, chose to not recognize his score. King of Kong followed Wiebe’s adventure to make that score official. In the years since filming ended the two have traded the top spot, with Billy regaining the high spot last month. But today Twin Galaxies verified Steve Wiebe’s submission, and he’s the King of Kong once more...

Purenintendo.com is hosting a video game marathon this weekend (Jan. 16 starting at 7pm EST). The 'Nintendo Icons' Video Game marathon focuses on the greatest Nintendo characters in some of their finest games including The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. The marathon will be 48 hours and run through Monday night to raise money for Child's Play. All proceeds go directly to Child's Play and donations can be made using Paypal.

Nintendo have confirmed to N-Europe that the new Play On Wii GameCube remake range will also be hitting Europe.

20. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Silicon Knights | Konami | 2004 A slick remake of the revolutionary spy drama that's still considered by many to be the best entry in the Metal Gear saga What made it so great? Take the single greatest game of the PSone generation, inject a fresh graphical update and all the cool new gameplay features from its PS2 sequel, and you've got an instant classic. Developed by Canadian developer Silicon Knights and filled with new cutscenes by Japanese film

Donkey Kong Banana Kingdom looks like a spiritual sequel to Jungle Beat, a brilliant 2D-style platformer on GameCube made unique by its use of the Bongo controllers. Donkey Kong will hit Japanese arcades housed in a huge three-player arcade cabinet. With nothing but two buttons on the control panel of the cabinet, a similar control style to Jungle Beat, which saw players hit the button repeatedly to run left and right. The three player functionality will presumably allow players to compete in

Lightguns, trackballs, Airpads, maracas, light-pens, Kempston Pro joysticks. Yes, every novelty peripheral has its 15 seconds in your sweaty palms before it's condemned forever to the same dank Dreamcast/PC Engine-laden corner. But that's not so with the bongos left over from Donkey Konga because Nintendo have found another use for the drums. And it doesn't involve propping doors open. DK Jungle Beat once again uses the drums to control Donkey Kong but, instead of matching beats and claps,