Donkey Kong and DK Jr. ports on Coleco Adam

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You don't hear about these things anywhere, not even on sites like Mobygames or StrategyWiki that have an otherwise complete list of official ports. But they're real I've got videos.

Also there's a list of difference between those versions and the better known Colecovision versions here, plus photos of the honestly really neat boxes here.
Here, a group of Wikipedians come to the consensus that the games were indeed real and not cancelled.

The biggest deal here, at least to me, is the fact that the DK Jr. port had its own exclusive level, seen seven minutes into the video I spoilered. It seems to be a kitchen where Mario bakes pies and drops them on Junior and also there are giant plungers and an even bigger eggbeater. It's weird and no one knows about it so I thought I'd let some people know about it.
 
I love hearing about stuff like this. There's a ton of PC ports that actualyl were released but are so rare and obscure wikis and database sites don't list them.
 
Do you have any other examples, or are they not Mario related? I they aren't I'm still curious about them.
 
A PC port of the first Twisted Metal was released exclusively... in Japan for some reason. It's so obscure that GameFaqs doesn't even list it. It's interesting because it has online play and completely changed one of the character's special attack. A former employee of Singletrac even expressed confusion it was only released in Japan in an interview and also mention there's a PC port of Warhawk, though unlike Twisted Metal, I've been unable to find anything about that version beside that the ERSB rated it.

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The Korean company Mega Entreprises released extremely obscure PC ports of neo-geo games

https://twitter.com/OutRunner_/status/806567450598838272

There's also next to no information online about Interplay's PC ports of Zero Divide and Jupiter Strike/Zeitgeist

https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Divide-Techno-Warrior-pc/dp/B00027EJS0

https://www.amazon.com/Zeitgeist-Laser-Fighter-PC/dp/B001MPXBRQ
 
So Mario suddenly goes from sending birds and reptiles to throwing pies. At least they're fresh right out the oven.

I lol'd at the kitchen level (around minute 7:00 in the second video). Was it present in any other ports of the game?
 
None, unless we're missing something even more well hidden. I kind of wonder if it's supposed to be a pizzeria run by Mario and that's what he's dropping, because the BGM sounds kind of like Italian stereotype music and the oven looks like the old fashioned kind you'd see at a pizzeria. Maybe they were trying to tie it to The Donkey Kong Album.

 
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