Donkey Kong 4-Player

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Controls

←→↑↓ or WASD — joystick
Space Z X or Ctrl — fire (jump)
Enter — START · 2 — SELECT (players; every game starts set for 4) · O — OPTION (difficulty) — between games
Gamepads work too: stick or d-pad, A/B fire, Start, Back = SELECT, X = OPTION. On a phone or tablet, use the on-screen stick.
Watching? Press fire to get in line — or to take your seat when it's offered.

The game

An experimental modification of Atari's 1983 Donkey Kong cartridge for up to four players at the same time: red, green, yellow and white Marios, each on its own joystick, climb the same board at once. It is a race: the first Mario to reach Pauline ends the board and gets the bonus, then everybody goes on to the next one. The hammers stay on the board (jump at one to take it), and a hammer also knocks out another Mario (800 points). Falls don't hurt; barrels, fireballs and the rest do, and a Mario who is hit comes back at the bottom. Everyone has 2 men in reserve; the game ends when everyone is out.

How the arcade works

Everyone here sees the same game. The arcade runs a real Atari 800, and your browser runs an identical copy in step with it — so there's no video stream, just the four joysticks. The first four people in get the seats; everyone else watches and can get in line. When a seat opens, the next in line gets 10 seconds to take it. Every game is a 4-player game: an empty seat's player is in it too, and whoever takes the seat takes that player over on the spot.