Donkey Kong (arcade game)

Donkey Kong is an arcade game created by Nintendo, released in 1981. The game introduced two of Nintendo's most important characters, Mario and Donkey Kong. The unusual name of the game is commonly believed to be due to a mistranslation of the Japanese for "monkey", but Shigeru Miyamoto actually intended for it to have this name. The "Kong" part is obvious (see King Kong), but the "Donkey" part represents "Stubborn".

Ports

Like most arcade games of the era, Donkey Kong was ported to numerous home systems including Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, e-Reader, Game & Watch multiscreen, Game Boy Advance, PC, Sinclair Spectrum Intellivision, Mini-Arcade, NES, and the TI 99/4A.

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Apple II - Atari 8-bit family - Atari 2600 - Atari 7800 - ColecoVision - Commodore 64 - Commodore VIC-20 - E-Reader - Game & Watch - Game Boy Advance - PC - Sinclair Spectrum - Intellivision - NES - TI 99/4A

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Image:A2600_Donkey_Kong.png|Atari 2600 (1982)

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Atari 2600 - 1982

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Image:Intv_Donkey_Kong.png|Intellivision (1982)

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Intellivision - 1982

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Image:Coleco_Donkey_Kong.png|Colecovision (1982)

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Colecovision - 1982

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Image:C64_Donkey_Kong.png|Commodore 64 (1983)

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Commodore 64 - 1983

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Image:NES_Donkey_Kong.png|NES (1986)

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NES - 1986

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Image:A7800_Donkey_Kong.png|Atari 7800 (1988)

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Atari 7800 - 1988

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Image:Sinclair_donkeykong.gif|Sinclair Spectrum (1983)

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Sinclair Spectrum - 1983

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In defence of the Atari 7800 version, the purplish girders are a result of poor colour tables in 7800 emulation. The actual Donkey Kong 7800 game features distinctly red girders.

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