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While the first games were arcade releases, most Donkey Kong games have been released for Nintendo consoles and handhelds since the third generation. 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 ...
Donkey Kong Jr. [a] is a 1982 arcade platform game that was released by Nintendo. It is the sequel to Donkey Kong , but with the roles reversed compared to its predecessor: Mario is now the villain and Donkey Kong Jr. is trying to save his kidnapped father.
The ColecoVision was released in August 1982. [7] By Christmas 1982, Coleco had sold more than 500,000 units, [8] [9] in part on the strength of Donkey Kong as the bundled game. [10] ColecoVision's main competitor was the less commercially successful Atari 5200. [11] [12] [13] Sales quickly passed 1 million in early 1983. [14]
August – Nintendo releases Donkey Kong Jr., the sequel to Donkey Kong. August – Taito releases parallax scroller Jungle Hunt. September 24 – Namco releases Pole Position, one of the first games with stereophonic and quadraphonic sound. Featuring a pseudo-3D, third-person, rear-view perspective, it becomes the most popular racing game of ...
The first Donkey Kong game for the Nintendo 64, Diddy Kong Racing, a kart racing game, was released as Nintendo's major 1997 Christmas shopping season product. [58] Rare originally developed it as a sequel to its NES game R.C. Pro-Am (1988), but added Diddy Kong to increase its marketability. [59] It received favorable reviews and sold 4.5 ...
Crazy Kong (クレイジーコング, Kureijī Kongu) is an arcade game developed by Falcon, released in 1981 and similar to Nintendo's Donkey Kong. Although commonly believed to be a bootleg version, it was officially licensed for operation only in Japan when Nintendo couldn't keep up with domestic demand (even though Donkey Kong was still ...
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Nintendo Donkey Kong Game and Watch. Donkey Kong was developed by Nintendo R&D1 as part of the Game & Watch Multi Screen series, featuring two LCD screens. Released in 1982, [1] it is a port of the arcade game, where Mario is a carpenter attempting to rescue his girlfriend from an evil, or at least angry, ape.