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Donkey Kong
Miyamoto's climbing game established jumping-over-hazards platforming and gave Mario his debut.
Mechanics it built on
Ideas Donkey Kong inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.
The Donkey Kong series in this dataset
1981
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