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Coleco had sold 6 million Donkey Kong cartridges for home consoles, grossing more than $153,000,000 (equivalent to $483,000,000 in 2023) [f] and earning Nintendo more than $5 million in royalties; [95] the bundled ColecoVision version sold 2 million units, [96] while the Atari 2600 version sold 4 million units in 1982 [97] [98] [99] for $100 ...
A CD-i Donkey Kong game was developed by Riedel Software Productions between 1992 and 1993. [96] It was part of a deal that granted Philips the license to use Nintendo characters in CD-i games, which resulted in Hotel Mario (1993) and three The Legend of Zelda games (1993–1994). The Donkey Kong game was canceled. [96]
The game introduces Donkey Kong's son, the diaper-wearing Donkey Kong Jr. [124] [125] Mario, Pauline, Donkey Kong, and Jr. return in the 1994 Game Boy Donkey Kong, [126] in which Mario again must rescue Pauline from the Kongs. [32] The Game Boy game was the first Donkey Kong game to depict Donkey Kong wearing a red necktie bearing his initials ...
The Konami Code was created by Kazuhisa Hashimoto, who was developing the home port of the 1985 arcade game Gradius for the NES. Finding the game too difficult to play through during testing, he created the cheat code, which gives the player a full set of power-ups (normally attained gradually throughout the game). [2]
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]
Computer Games magazine in 1984 reviewed the Coleco Adam version, calling it a "supergame adaptation" and the best conversion of the game. [11] Donkey Kong Jr. received an award in the category of "1984 Best Videogame Audio-Visual Effects (16K or more ROM)" at the 5th annual Arkie Awards, where the judges described it as "great fun", and noted ...
2003 marked the release of the first post-Rare Donkey Kong game that features characters presented in Donkey Kong Country. Namco's Donkey Konga is a GameCube music title that was packaged with a DK Bongo controller. The controller is used to keep the rhythm with the beats of covers to famous songs (as well as Nintendo video game music).
Donkey Kong Country [b] is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is a reboot of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise and follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set out to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Rool and his army, the Kremlings.