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 ...

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 ...

44 years after its release, you'd think that the speedrunning community would have pushed the Donkey Kong arcade ... the game's long-assumed unbeatable kill screen. All you've got to do is beat ...