Donkey Kong scales college, students search for hammers

by Kevin Kelly { Apr 10th 2007 at 5:28PM }

Some extremely inventive and intrepid students at UC Santa Cruz decided to recreate a scene from Donkey Kong on the side of their E2 building on campus, using nothing but colored Post-It notes. The result is a comparitive study in awesomeness and the power of procrastination. We can only imagine that this was spawned during some late-night "we should be working on that paper ..." session.

The finished product is fairly impressive. Check out more pictures here, and the Livejournal entry with even more pictures here. As one LJ commenter summed up nicely, "Pretty rad especially considering they were either in diapers or not even born when this game was popular." We're waiting on the inevitable YouTube video showing the construction of this thing, sped up and set to some popular alternative song.

Tags: 8-bit, art, DonkeyKong, Livejournal, PostIts, procrastinate, UCSC

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Todd @ Apr 10th 2007 5:37PM

Wow. I'm very impressed. That looks pretty good for being nothing more than Post-It Notes.

KiraXD @ Apr 10th 2007 5:55PM

these guys also did the mario post-its as well...

http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/8bit/

http://www.yikes.com/~pengo/images/8bit/11-26_PM_COMPLETE.jpg

GaryM @ Apr 10th 2007 6:08PM

The children are our future.

Steve @ Apr 10th 2007 6:38PM

>> "Pretty rad especially considering they were
>> either in diapers or not even born when this
>> game was popular."

Jeeze! You ain't kiddin'! Most college freshmen would be 19 this year and that means they were born in 1989. Seniors, on a 4 year plan, would have been born in 1986!

Thank you, Joystick, nothing made me feel like a dinosaur today and it's nearly 7pm.

Jedimonkey27 @ Apr 10th 2007 6:54PM

Hey, not all young people don't respect old games. I was actually considering attending UC Santa Cruz this year and I was accepted, but the out of state tuition is horrible.

Evan @ Apr 10th 2007 6:58PM

Why can't the real world be more like university? In university, people find non-destructive ways to express themselves, but outside of university, people just tag everything with spray paint!

Rubang B @ Apr 10th 2007 7:12PM

Anybody on Joystiq in Los Angeles? We should totally one-up these guys. (Ooh, feel that pun?)

Nino @ Apr 10th 2007 7:16PM

#4 that would be 1988 if they turn 19 this year.

mr mobius @ Apr 10th 2007 8:27PM

Thats a cool idea, and I think it'd be cool if more uni people decided to do random things with their spare time. (Any ideas for next year when I hopefully get to uni would be appreciated).

ZJ @ Apr 11th 2007 12:38PM

@Steve

I'm a freshman in college and I'm turning 20 next week.
If I were a senior I'd be turning 24, so that makes the year range 1983-1987.
The NES version was released in North America in June of 1986.

So while it's true they were a bit young for this, try not to feel too old.