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Computer and Video Games called Donkey Kong "the most momentous" release of 1981, as it "introduced three important names" to the global video game industry: Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Mario. These three figures went on to play a significant role in video game history. [118] Donkey Kong paved the way for the NES, known as the Famicom in Japan.
The game has been placed in the public domain, hosted on SourceForge, like most of Rohrer's games. [9] DONKEY.BAS: 1981 Racing game: Proprietary: Proprietary: Bill Gates, Neil Konzen: Was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981 and was included with early versions of the PC DOS operating system for the original IBM PC.
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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.
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]
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Space Invaders, the first "killer app" arcade game to be ported, was released in 1980 for the Atari 2600, though earlier Atari-published arcade games were ported to the 2600 previously. [6] Coleco packaged Nintendo's Donkey Kong with the ColecoVision when it was released in August 1982.
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