![]() ![]() NES ROM hacking-including the methods employed by Mika-are easily more than a decade old. NPR stated that Mika's hack of Donkey Kong is not "the first time someone has done something like this, though the first time with such a classic game." If NPR means that this is the first time someone has hacked a classic game, then this, of course, is entirely false. However, I find the some of the news media's coverage and the corresponding online discourse troubling. I am happy to see classic game hacking alive and well, and I am happy to see these interesting projects getting widespread coverage. Much of the media coverage compared this touching story to a similar one that circulated last year about another daddy-daughter team: "Super Dad" Mike Hoye, who edited The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker to cast Link as female, and his three-year-old daughter Maya. Mika implemented the game hack to allow his 3-year-old daughter to play the game as Pauline. FEMICOM Museum / Research / NES ROM hacks and feminist discourseĮarlier this month, Mike Mika made headlines for hacking the classic 8-bit game Donkey Kong so that the roles of Mario, the hero, and Pauline, the damsel-in-distress, were swapped.
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