Donkey-Kong

It is an Icon

It is maybe the godfather of all video games

and I so well remember the bulgy heavy automatons in the bars

from a long gone adolescent past

Donkey-Kong!

Black was the mirroring screen

until you dropped a coin

and unleashed your game opponent

on your various criss-cross ways up to another level:

abysses, falling rocks, ladders to climb and always upon you:

Donkey-Kong, the ape-like monster facing you wherever you go!

You have to jump him, trick him, escape somewhere to

You have to develop a strategy, find a path to the top

To reach...the next level

And just like that it works with your Self

with all the coins you throw into the old machine

you actually feed Donkey-Kong, your monkey

the little monster you created and that comes after you day by day

it is your self image, your home-made opponent

that you have to overcome at some point

to...reach the next level!

Caution:

Be alert when the door really opens to a new one

it might be a completely different set-up

that does not need winners nor losers anymore

no defeat and no escape and no power-over strategies

Do not create just a new sweet-little monkey-monster there!