In Angel’s season five episode 5.12 You’re Welcome, the video game Spike is playing is the original Donkey Kong game by Nintendo, the first videogame ever to feature Mario, Nintendo’s main mascot. You can tell by the very recognizable music and Spike’s comments about a “plumber” and a monkey.
In 4.11 Doomed, referring to a fancy Initiative device (which looks like a Nintendo Gameboy) held by Riley, Buffy says:
“Is this really the time for Donkey Kong?”
In the scene when Faith (in Buffy’s body) has slept with Riley in 4.16 Who Are You? the camera pans up from the bed past the alarm clock, and you can see that there is a black Game Boy Pocket in front of the clock.
Related episodes: 4.11 Doomed, 4.16 Who Are You?, 5.12 You're Welcome
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buffysmglover on February 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Something you may like to add here is that even though Spike was playing a Nintendo-company game, the system he was using was the Xbox, which is made by Microsoft, NOT Nintendo.