Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes

NickFitz writes "Students at UCSC have recreated the first level of Donkey Kong using 6,400 Post-it notes stuck to the windows of the E2 building. It took a team of about 10 people five hours to complete the work, which will remain in place until May 1. There's a time-lapse video of the construction process."

If MIT students did it

[by Anonymous Coward]

It would be playable.

Re:If MIT students did it

[gardyloo (512791)]

I doubt they'd go so far as to give the Post-It facsimile an attribute that the original didn't have...

If Stanford students did it...

[creimer (824291)]

... the IPO would be done. :P

If German Chaos Computer Club geeks did it...

[jd (1658)]

...it would be playable, but only if you had the side of a hotel to play on [blinkenlights.de]...

I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[MankyD (567984)]

While this game's early '80s arcade popularity predates most of today's engineering students...

I suddenly feel so old :(

Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[Jeff DeMaagd (2015)]

What's worse is that when we played DK, we just accepted the idea that DK threw fire. I don't remember anyone that questioned it.

I think what really happen was that he was supposed to throw feces but the focus group refused to play the game.

Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[Andrew Kismet (955764)]

He threw two types of barrel. The blue barrels were filled with oil, and would turn into little fire characters when they hit the fire barrel at the start of the course. The fire would then chase Mario/Jumpman up.

Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[by Anonymous Coward]

Actually, you did not need a quarter to play Donkey Kong (or any Nintendo game using the same cabinet). I had to get my DK fix and paper route money was not cutting it. Remember, back in this time frame, Atari was just about all anyone had for video games and cabinet games were a craze. Anyway, when I was was 12, money was tight but you could get around that. The front Plexiglas panel on the Donkey Kong cabinet could be manipulated so that you could lift it up get your hand in through the bottom of it. With your arm down inside the unit, you could play around for a little bit and find the metal clicker that a quarter would trigger when dropped in. You could simply keep clicking this and get credits up to the 99 max. Every time a credit was given (like from a quarter or you simulating a quarter), the game made a loud "blowwap" noise. To prevent being obvious, you could add one credit, hit the 1 player button to start a new game, then click that metal arm over and over again without that obvious noise. This trick worked better in the pizza shops and smaller venues then the full sized game rooms because the smaller places often did not pay attention or had no one around because the games were often in some side room or in the back somewhere. Full game rooms typically had too many people and employees around. I knew about the generals of how this worked because I had a few full sized video games in my basement, like Clowns, some tank game and a third that I don't remember, all back and white and all played to death. Yes it was wrong but I had to play DK somehow.

Re:I've Never Felt This Way Before.

[ari_j (90255)]

Just so we're all clear on this: You couldn't afford to drop a quarter on DK but you could afford to keep three full-size cabinet arcade games in your basement.

Bravo!

[Kid Zero (4866)]

Nice to see students remembering the past. :)

Monkeys aren't donkeys

[aurb (674003)]

Stop messing with my head!

First level?

[oneiros27 (46144)]

... recreated the first level of Donkey Kong ...

How can you tell the first one apart from any of the other levels of Donkey Kong? That sure looks like the sixth level to me.

This makes me happy

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves (236787)]

Hooray for geeks with way too much time on their hands.

Re:This makes me happy

[MobileTatsu-NJG (946591)]

"Hooray for geeks with way too much time on their hands."

Said the guy posting on Slashdot.

Wasted time!

[ProfessionalCookie (673314)]

If they're going to make it so big the least those billy goats could do is use 2xSaI [tudelft.nl]. *sigh*

Quit messing with our minds!

[suv4x4 (956391)]

Quit messing with our minds! [ytmnd.com]

6,400

[Disharmony2012 (998431)]

6,400 post-it notes ought to be enough to re-create any level.

about 10 people?

[Ruvim (889012)]

a team of about 10 people

What, was like 9.5 people?

Re:about 10 people?

[evanbd (210358)]

Unfortunately, one of the original 10 team members died in a freak accident involving a rolling barrel during construction.

The irony of it

[ciaran.mchale (1018214)]

Years ago, people predicted that computer technology would result in the "paperless office". Now, people are using paper to create the "computerless video game".

Re:how long ago was this?

[creimer (824291)]

So paper cuts don't count as bleeding edge?

Re:Did they do this before?

[mikesd81 (518581)]

You mean this? [yikes.com]

Re:Wow.

[The_Wilschon (782534)]

AFAIK, the paper industry actually plants new forest for the purpose of cutting it down 20 years later, rather than cutting any more old forest. So, because of the paper industry, we actually have more forest than we would otherwise. I know hating paper waste is "eco-aware", but really, it is more like "eco-sheeple"... FYI, recycling produces a lot of very nasty pollutants, too. Not that those necessarily outweigh the benefits of not just filling up landfills, but you've got to be aware of these things or you'll end up harming your cause rather than helping it.

Re:Wow.

[The Anarchist Avenge (1004563)]

Do you actually have any idea what an old-growth forest looks like and how an an old-growth forest ecosystem works? Because if you did, you'd know that old growth forests have ecosystems that are far more diverse than monocultures. Also, monocultures require far more energy to keep healthy(gasoline + foresters time + spraying) than mixed vegitation(none).

Re:Wow.

[The_Wilschon (782534)]

That actually wasn't the point. The point is that the paper industry is planting new forest for the purpose of later cutting them down to make paper, instead of cutting more old forest. The secondary point is that not only do we keep the remaining old forest this way, but we also have a larger number of living trees on the earth at any given time than we would otherwise. True, the excess trees are not in a wonderful diverse ecosystem (I love forests), but at least they are trees.