Crazy Kong
Crazy Kong is an arcade game created by Falcon, released in 1981 and is similar to Nintendo's Donkey Kong. Although commonly mistaken as a bootleg version, the game is officially licensed for non-US markets…
Crazy Kong is an arcade developed by Falcon, released 31 December 1981 on Arcade and Commodore C64/128/MAX. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.
What Crazy Kong is
Crazy Kong is an arcade game developed by Falcon and released in 1981. It is available on Arcade and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crazy Kong is an arcade game created by Falcon, released in 1981 and is similar to Nintendo's Donkey Kong. Although commonly mistaken as a bootleg version, the game is officially licensed for non-US markets and is based on different hardware. The game retains all of the gameplay elements of Donkey Kong, but has all of the graphics redrawn and re-colorized. They were allowed to produce a certain amount of printed circuit boards (PCB) and were banned from exporting them. Falcon breached this agreement by producing more than 9000 excess units and also by exporting them to the US. On January 29, 1982, Nintendo terminated their license agreement. It had a second version called Crazy Kong Part II.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series
Crazy Kong is the second of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Donkey Kong in 1982.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 1 hrs.
What it launched against
Crazy Kong launched on 31 December 1981, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf and Robotron: 2084.
Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf, Robotron: 2084.
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