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Donkey Kong was one of the most widely cloned video games in the early 1980s, along with Space Invaders (1978) and Pac-Man (1980). By 1983, Donkey Kong clones had become available on various different platforms. [116] The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers lists 17 different Donkey Kong clones released for various home platforms. [136]
The game is based on the original Donkey Kong; it features the first four arcade levels, but from there, features ninety-six more levels and becomes a hybrid between Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Super Mario Bros. 2. [1] The game was later re-released for Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console download.
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]
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]
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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 ...
The console was released on July 15, 1983, as the Home Cassette Type Video Game: Family Computer, [note 2] for ¥14,800 (equivalent to ¥18,400 in 2019) with three ports of Nintendo's successful arcade games Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. The Famicom was slow to gather success; a bad chip set caused the early revisions to crash.
[66] Demon Attack (Atari 2600) by Imagic was released in 1983. It won the 1983 Arcade Award for "Best Videogame of the Year". [108] It was the company's best selling game and is considered a classic of the Atari 2600. [109] [110] [111] Donkey Kong (arcade port) (ColecoVision) by Coleco was praised highly for being very faithful to the original ...