Donkey Kong
The MS-DOS port of Donkey Kong was developed by Atari, Inc., under the Atarisoft label. It was marketed for the IBM-PC computers.
23 June 1983
Donkey Kong is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 23 June 1983 on DOS.
What Donkey Kong is
Donkey Kong is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1983. It was published by Atari. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Donkey Kong has kidnapped the beautiful Lady and taken her to a dangerous construction site. Mario must climb to the top of the construction site and rescue Lady from the giant ape.
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 Mario series
Donkey Kong is the 17th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Bros. in 1983.
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When did Donkey Kong come out?
Donkey Kong was released on 23 June 1983 for DOS.
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