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Donkey Kong

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Titles

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ドンキーコング ja Kana jp official wikidata ✓ verified
Donkey Kong en Latn us official wikidata unverified

Description

source: wikidata1981 arcade game

source: wikipedia_enDonkey Kong is a 1981 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. As Mario (occasionally referred to as "Jumpman" at the time), the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site in New York City and rescue Pauline (occasionally referred to as "The Lady" at the time) from the giant gorilla Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series and Mario's first appearance in a video game. Donkey Kong was created to salvage unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980), and was designed for Nintendo of America's audience. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's president at the time, assigned the project to first-time video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Drawing inspiration from "Beauty and the Beast" and American media such as Popeye and King Kong, Miyamoto developed the characters and scenario and designed the game alongside chief engineer Gunpei Yokoi. Donkey Kong was the most complex arcade game released at that point, using graphics for characterization, including cutscenes to illustrate a plot, and integrating multiple unique stages into the gameplay. The game pioneered the platform genre before

source: romu任天堂の名作アクション。マリオの原点となった伝説のゲーム。

source: wikidata1980年代のビデオゲーム

source: wikipedia_ja『ドンキーコング』(DONKEY KONG) は、1981年7月に任天堂が発売した業務用ビデオゲームである。 本作は任天堂の看板キャラクターであるマリオが初めて登場した作品であり、同社を代表するゲーム製作者である宮本茂のビデオゲームのゲームデザイナーとしてのデビュー作である。本作は約85,000台を出荷する大ヒット作となり、ビデオゲーム市場における任天堂の成功の礎となった作品である。 本作は1982年にゲーム&ウオッチ版、1983年にファミリーコンピュータ版が発売されたことでも知られている。続編に『ドンキーコングJR.』や『ドンキーコング3』、『スーパードンキーコング』シリーズがある。

Metadata

First release1981-07-09
Categorymain_game
PlatformFamicom / NES

External IDs

wikidataQ12384
mobygames574
igdb141959

ROMs (6)

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NameRegionSerialSizeHashes
Donkey Kong (Japan) (En) jp 24592 B crc32: 3fa5a4f7
md5: 7fe384b324606279…
sha1: 40a5ba04660890a4…
sha256: 57afa3645f3f485a…
Donkey Kong (World) (Rev 1) 24592 B crc32: 053014ff
md5: decca1d26ece603a…
sha1: 6f0ae51888043f04…
sha256: 226c6f698f60b0a0…
Donkey Kong (World) (Rev 1) (Animal Crossing) 40976 B crc32: 69a711fd
md5: b31689d31455c70c…
sha1: cf3bfe452d89fe1b…
sha256: 0d78bd0e7653887e…
Donkey Kong (USA) (Rev 1) (e-Reader) us 24592 B crc32: 36bf9f65
md5: 43e6216d0b51ac66…
sha1: cec1ae9719256efc…
sha256: 640001056dce1962…
Donkey Kong (Asia) (En) (Pirate) 262160 B crc32: 3ee94fd3
md5: d2a63e2c501a7146…
sha1: 8202320b27333ce0…
sha256: c8a223ef80d98c1a…
Donkey Kong (Asia) (En) (Whirlwind Manu) (Pirate) 24592 B crc32: d02c08a9
md5: 7257e3aeb8e7802b…
sha1: 74fd169ee162f024…
sha256: 4886ddc69ee75696…

Raw JSON

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