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Donkey Kong

Miyamoto's climbing game established jumping-over-hazards platforming and gave Mario his debut.

Released 1981 Developer Nintendo R&D1 Publisher Nintendo Platform Arcade Genre Platformer Era The home cartridge

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Donkey Kong inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Numeric Score 1972Lives and Continues 1978Coin-Op Difficulty Economy 1978Flip-Screen Room Graph 1980

The Donkey Kong series in this dataset

1981
Donkey Kong this page
1994

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