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Donkey Kong

The Donkey Kong port for Intellivision was developed by Coleco, and lacks 50m and 75m. It is also very visually different from the original arcade game.

3 March 1982

Donkey Kong is an arcade developed by Coleco, released 3 March 1982 on Intellivision.

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What Donkey Kong is

Donkey Kong is an arcade game developed by Coleco and released in 1982. It is available on Intellivision 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.
Description from the publisher · source

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 second of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. It arrived 8 months after Donkey Kong. The next entry was Donkey Kong in 1982.

See all 668 Mario games in release order →

What it launched against

Donkey Kong launched on 3 March 1982, within three weeks of Dig Dug and Pac-Man.

Released around the same time: Dig Dug, Pac-Man.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Donkey Kong come out?
Donkey Kong was released on 3 March 1982 for Intellivision.

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