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Donkey Kong [c] is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo.As Mario (also sometimes known at the time as "Jumpman"), the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.
It debuted in 1981 with the arcade game Donkey Kong, which was a sales success that brought Nintendo into the North American market, [1] with the original arcade games being ported into versions on third-party home consoles and developed by several companies. [2] The Donkey Kong franchise has sold a total of 82 million copies as of 2022. [3]
Donkey Kong Country portrays Cranky as the original Donkey Kong character featured in the 1981 arcade game. [18] The character retains his stubborn nature and has become an aged, sharp-minded, and disparaging video game veteran who throughout the games distributes advice and useful items. 64 portrays him as an alchemist.
Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong was released in the Multi Screen series on June 3, 1982. [9] It is a dual-screen single-player game with an orange clamshell body. It is the first use of the directional pad or D-pad in Nintendo products. The Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong sold 8 million units. [10]
Donkey Kong is regarded as the first game to use graphics to tell a story, [261] which GamesRadar+ said provided an unprecedented level of narrative depth. [251] Donkey Kong Country 's pre-rendered graphics featured a level of detail unprecedented in console games at the time, [262] [263] and inspired many imitators. [28]
On July 9th, 1981 Donkey Kong hit arcades. It was in this original Nintendo arcade game that both Donkey Kong and Mario (at the time named Jumpman) were born. There have been a lot of changes ...
Nintendo's Donkey Kong defined the platform game genre, while Konami's Scramble established scrolling shooters. The lesser known Jump Bug combined the two concepts into both the first scrolling platform game and the first platform shooter. Other arcade hits released in 1981 include Defender, Frogger, and the Galaxian sequel Galaga.
- Runners-up: Super Metroid, EarthBound, and Donkey Kong Country The last numbered "Final Fantasy" game to feature 2D graphics was also one of the most popular entries in the long-running series.