Crazy Kong !!!

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I know this game has kind of a cult following, and I'm starting to think that no Donkey Kong collection is complete without a Crazy Kong.

So what's the story with these? Are there many of the dedicated cabs still around? What do they usually go for?

I have to admit, there's something charming about that game...
 
I picked up a Congorilla cab for $35. They are not really worth anything. It is really cool and requires you to play right handed since the only jump button is on the left.
 
I picked up a Congorilla cab for $35. They are not really worth anything. It is really cool and requires you to play right handed since the only jump button is on the left.

That's awkwardly awesome. You have any pictures of the control panel? I wonder why they did that.
 
That's awkwardly awesome. You have any pictures of the control panel? I wonder why they did that.


This is not my pic but it is the same control panel...

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We only ever had CK here in Australia (Never DK)

But they were never left hand buttons, I think they were generic cabs.

Bad art etc, no sideart. Made of particle board, with vinyl directly applied. (So most of them are in the Dump long ago as a result) :(

If I had to play the lefty machine, I would probably cross my arms and play :)
 
I saw and played several Congorilla's back in the day in Maryland. I always appreciated the "realistic" bezel art. :)

I never saw an actual Crazy Kong until I got into collecting in the '90s, and when I did, they were about 50/50 split between being dedicated Falcon International cabs, and conversions of bronze age or early color games like Super Breakout, Zero Hour, and Exidy's Crash.

Kyle :cool:
 
I have a working Crazy Kong mini in my garage I picked up for $50. The guy I bought it from sold it to me after he gave up on putting a 60 in 1 in it since he couldn't open the back door! It's an artic cab that has no back door. He asked $50 for it and was hardset on that but yet openly mentioned haggling...some people.

Anyways, it will go into my Mini row someday. It's a neat piece.
 
I have a working Crazy Kong mini in my garage I picked up for $50. The guy I bought it from sold it to me after he gave up on putting a 60 in 1 in it since he couldn't open the back door! It's an artic cab that has no back door. He asked $50 for it and was hardset on that but yet openly mentioned haggling...some people.

Anyways, it will go into my Mini row someday. It's a neat piece.

That's actually exactly what I'd be looking for. Living in San Francisco, I lean toward minis in all cases.

And for $50, you can't go wrong!
 
I have had this Krazy Kong for a while. (See Pictures) Has unusual Bezel and Marquee art. No side art. I have restored it. It has a Falcon board in it. I had to repair the sound some of them were not there. This one is fully functional now and I am going to recap the monitor. Everything about this cabinet and its inner workings are unusual to say the least, The monitor chassis is an ATI and I will have to figure out the cap kit for it. I could not replace the joystick because it was so small because of this Mini Cabaret cabinet. I had to rebuild it from nintendo joystick parts.

I just picked up a Congorilla last week. I am redoing the control panel because it was spray painted over and I have a custom CPO that will fit nicely. The CPO has the buttons on both sides. This Congorilla had a boot leg DK junior board in it which I believe are rare to find. The attract screen says Donkey King Junior instead of Donkey Kong Junior. (See Picture)

Whoever started this thread I am curious to see what the Krazy Kong you found looks like. Please send a link or post some pictures if you can. I paid 250.00 for the Congorilla and 300.00 for the Krazy Kong. I love the boot legs they have a certain nostalgia to them.

Sorry about the first two thumbnails are crooked please rotate if you can. Or turn your head. Has anyone seen the art like this on a Krazy Kong before? Has anyone seen a Donkey King Junior like this before? Thoughts please! Lol.
 

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I have had this Krazy Kong for a while. (See Pictures) Has unusual Bezel and Marquee art. No side art. I have restored it. It has a Falcon board in it. I had to repair the sound some of them were not there. This one is fully functional now and I am going to recap the monitor. Everything about this cabinet and its inner workings are unusual to say the least, The monitor chassis is an ATI and I will have to figure out the cap kit for it. I could not replace the joystick because it was so small because of this Mini Cabaret cabinet. I had to rebuild it from nintendo joystick parts.

I just picked up a Congorilla last week. I am redoing the control panel because it was spray painted over and I have a custom CPO that will fit nicely. The CPO has the buttons on both sides. This Congorilla had a boot leg DK junior board in it which I believe are rare to find. The attract screen says Donkey King Junior instead of Donkey Kong Junior. (See Picture)

Whoever started this thread I am curious to see what the Krazy Kong you found looks like. Please send a link or post some pictures if you can. I paid 250.00 for the Congorilla and 300.00 for the Krazy Kong. I love the boot legs they have a certain nostalgia to them.

Sorry about the first two thumbnails are crooked please rotate if you can. Or turn your head. Has anyone seen the art like this on a Krazy Kong before? Has anyone seen a Donkey King Junior like this before? Thoughts please! Lol.

I like the art on that one. So dramatic!

I started the thread and I don't have a Crazy Kong. Just interested.
 
Too Cool Tighe! Now tell me was there a dedicated cabinet for this game? Or do you know? I am guessing that you were playing this off of a board through some sort of JAMMA perhaps?

Is there a ROM dump for this? I would like to make my own and try this out. Where did you acquire it? Let me know if you have the ROM files or where I can get them.

Post a picture of the attract screen. What does it look like?

That looks like a much much harder game! I love it.

Thanks for posting.
 
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Lanky do you have a picture of your Crazy Kong? Does it look like the one I posted? I am curious. Here is a picture of my Congorilla I am restoring it as well and this is a picture before the restoration.

This will be a Junior King.
 

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Too Cool Tighe! Now tell me was there a dedicated cabinet for this game? Or do you know? I am guessing that you were playing this off of a board through some sort of JAMMA perhaps?

Is there a ROM dump for this? I would like to make my own and try this out. Where did you acquire it? Let me know if you have the ROM files or where I can get them.

Post a picture of the attract screen. What does it look like?

That looks like a much much harder game! I love it.

Thanks for posting.

I got my Big Kong from SRW, which he got from a warehouse buy in MA. It didn't work when I got it, and it was in a Japanese Taito Space Invaders part 2 (color) cocktail cabinet. The cabinet must have been in a fire as the entire interior was full of soot and the player two control panel was warped from heat.

I drilled the lock, washed the boardset, cleaned the chips and replaced one polyester capacitor and plugged it back in and it worked!

The game is a ROM swap and daughter board on a Galaxian bootleg board that was designed to run in a Space Invaders cocktail. The edge connectors on the boardset plug right into the existing Space Invaders Part 2 harness.

There is another edge connector (just like on a legit Galaxian boardset) and the Jump button and Up and down are wired to it. The existing shoot button isn't used.

This version of Big Kong I have is very different from the version in MAME which runs on Crazy Climber hardware. The only other sighting of this game was when CrazyKongFan saw it in the background of some movie I believe.

I have been thinking about dumping the roms and scanning the daughter board so other people can enjoy this game. It is really fun and crazy hard! I think that it should probably run on actual Galaxian hardware too.

Some old videos from when I got it:













 
PM me if you do a ROM dump. I may even try and design a cabinet and such for it. THe Krazy Kong picture I posted have you ever seen the art before? Have you ever seen the DK junior Bootleg before? I did research and this board I found in my Congorilla is known as Junior King.

I just recapped it and it sounds and looks great. I thought there was something wrong with the jump sound on Junior King, but I guess that is how it sounds. The pitch sounds lower than regular DK junior. I guess that is the way it is. When I first got the game I heard the actual real jump sound from DK Junior coming in and out and it only did it once. Anyways the board got a recap and I found a Tantalum cap fried which I replaced along with all of the electrolytics. Doing all of that Did not change the jump sound but nothing is intermittent anymore.

I tried to run Junior King ROMs in MAME but could not. If you can download The junior King ROMS and let me know if the jump sound is different if you can get it to run in your MAME, I would appreciate it. There is a different sound the way Junior walks too. It sounds like the vine climbing sound. I know Bootlegs have different sounds sometimes but other than that everything else is identical except for the order of the levels. I just want to make sure the sounds are correct.

Anyone else know more feel free to chime in! Thanks Tighe for sharing! Those videos are awesome! If you do not have a ROM dump of this crazy Junior ROM and want it I can dump it and swap with your Big Kong ROM. Let me know. Thanks.
 
There are several members here that own Junior King cabinets.

As for Congorilla and Crazy Kong, they actually pop up on craigslist around me quite frequently. I love the different artwork on both.

As for dumping the ROMs I will probably do it at some point, but not anytime soon. When I do I will share them with anyone and the MAME team.
 
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