Donkey Kong in lights: Steven Read's Meggy Jr. Super Monkey Kong

Though Darius Kazemi's still the unspoken champ of Evil Mad Scientist's 8x8 LED portable Meggy Jr. RGB (having actually laid hands on and fallen a little in love with his Tiny Rogue during GDC [and made it further into its glorious glitched-out program-error netherworld than anyone apparently had before]), the newest heavyweight contender is Steven Read with his 1x1 sprite platformer Super Monkey Kong.

Wonderfully interpretive and surprisingly readable for a series of flashing lights, Super Monkey Kong is an 8x8 vertically-scrolling version of Donkey Kong, which completely sells itself with that giant purple Kong at the top of the level.

Head over to Steven Read's site for the (unfortunately unembeddable) video to take in the full new-retro splendor.

Super Monkey Kong [Steve Read, via Denki Games' twitter]