If you’ve never played Donkey Kong, shame on you, go play now.)ĭonkey Kong is one of the most recognised video game characters in the world, and while Nintendo of America may not have been convinced it would succeed, it did. (If that’s bringing back happy memories you can play a flash version in your browser here. Video then changed to “Jumpman”) has to rescue a damsel in distress, Pauline (originally named Lady), from a giant ape, throwing barrels and fireballs, Donkey Kong. As with many video games, the protagonist, in this case, the first appearance of Mario (originally named Mr. Sales of the machine were quick, and the game become one of the best-selling arcade machines of the early 1980s.Īs one of the first arcade games to feature multiple stages, at the time of its release Donkey Kong was the most complex arcade game, thanks to its four unique stages. The original Donkey Kong arcade game was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and was hoped to appeal more to Americans than Radar Scope, which had tested poorly with audiences. One of the earliest platform games, Donkey Kong was released by Nintendo on 9 July 1981. But before the popularity of the NES, Mario, and The Legend of Zelda, came the Donkey Kong arcade game.
However, I was always jealous of friends with the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES (and later SNES) as the cool kids called it. I didn’t have a Nintendo as a child – I was firmly in the Sega camp, with a Master System and later, a Game Gear. 9 th July 1981 – “It’s on like Donkey Kong!”
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