This was quite a bit different than the arcade game. Nintendo released several DK Game & Watch games in the early-mid '80s. You played as Stanley defending his garden.ĭonkey Kong Jr. Unlike its platformer predecessors this one was a shooter. The only home port back then was the NES version. The two Famicom games were released in the West in one cartridge as Donkey Kong Classics.ĭK3 was significantly less popular than the first two games. Nintendo made it a Famicom launch title and Atari later released it on 7800. There was a bootleg Super Donkey Kong 2 on ColecoVision. Like the first game, Coleco ported it to ColecoVision, 2600 and Intellivision. Ocean released versions for the C64(different than the Atari one), MSX, CPC and Spectrum. Later on Atari did a 7800 version and they re-released Coleco's 2600 port. They must have rushed it though as it was missing the factory level. When Nintendo launched their Famicom in Japan in 1983, DK was a launch title.
This enhanced port was released in bootleg form on ColecoVision as Super Donkey Kong. The ADAM version included the level and intro missing from the ColecoVision version. David Sheff's Nintendo history book goes over everything about this and other DK related lawsuits in detail for those interested. They figured they had the right to port their ColecoVision version to it but didn't realize Nintendo had already sold the computer rights to Atari. Coleco had obtained exclusive console rights to the game and packaged it with their new console in 1982.Ĭoleco also released ports on its competitors' consoles, the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision.Ītari initially got the personal computer rights and released it for Atari 8-bit computers, TI99/4A, Vic 20, DOS PC, C64 and Apple II.Ĭoleco made a legal error by making a version for their ADAM computer which they showed at the 1983 CES.
While it wasn't the first ladder climbing game(I believe that honour goes to Universal's Space Panic) it was certainly the one that made the platform genre take off in popularity.ĭK had numerous home ports, the most significant one in North America being the ColecoVision version. I don't think I need to explain what a phenomenon this game was.
DONKEY KONG 3 PC PORT SERIES
This thread is a tribute to one of the most significant series in gaming, Nintendo's Donkey Kong.
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