Just over a week ago, a player with the pseudonym "Kosmic" achieved what had been considered impossible in the Donkey Kong community for decades: he beat the kill screen of an early arcade version ...

For the better part of 44 years, Nintendo's 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong was understood to have a single, definitive endpoint: a "kill screen" where a bug ensures that Mario will inevitably die ...

For about as long as the Donkey Kong arcade game has been around, high-skill players have known about the kill screen on the first board of Level 22 that kills Jumpman (Mario) shortly after you ...