Little Mario, the carpenter, is in hot pursuit of you this very moment.' SNORT.' Foreboding music warns of the eventual doom that awaits the poor girl, lest she somehow be miraculously rescued. 'HELP! HELP!' cries the beautiful maiden as she is dragged up a labyrinth of structural beams by the ominous Donkey Kong. Official story quoted from Nintendo of America Mario must climb to the top of the construction site and rescue Lady from the giant ape. 1.1 Official story quoted from Nintendo of Americaĭonkey Kong has kidnapped the beautiful Lady and taken her to a dangerous construction site.However, Donkey Kong was the first to include jumping as an ability. Donkey Kong was the second platforming game ever made the 1980 game Space Panic was the first. This game was also the first title to be released on Virtual Console. The original arcade version had four screen levels, but the Nintendo Entertainment System version only has three, with the stage 50 m cut. The game sold very well in the United States, becoming one of four games to be inducted into the Nintendo Hall of Fame. This port was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System as part of the Arcade Classics Series in 1986. A port of this game was one of the three launch titles for the Family Computer in 1983. It marked the beginning of the Mario and Donkey Kong franchises and introduced several of their earliest characters, including Mario himself (a carpenter rather than a plumber), the original Donkey Kong (who, in later games, would become Cranky Kong, the current Donkey Kong's grandfather ), and Lady (later renamed Pauline). Raster, standard resolution 224 x 256 (Vertical) 256 Colorsĭonkey Kong is an arcade game that was Nintendo's first big hit in North America. Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online: Ocean Software (Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and 1986 Commodore 64 ports) Sentient Software Ltd (ZX Spectrum and MSX ports)Īrcana Software Design (Amstrad CPC and 1986 Commodore 64 ports) (Atari 8-bit, Apple II, TI-99/4A, MS-DOS, Commodore VIC-20, and 1983 Commodore 64 ports) Nintendo Research & Development 2 (Famicom/NES port) Ĭoleco (ColecoVision, Atari 2600, Intellivision, and Coleco Adam ports)Ītari, Inc. Donkey Kongįor alternate box art, see the game's gallery. For the Game & Watch game of the same name, see Donkey Kong (Game & Watch). For the Game Boy game of the same name, see Donkey Kong (Game Boy).

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