Donkey Kong (1981)
Platforms: Arcade · Atari 2600 · Dedicated handheld · ColecoVision · Intellivision · PC Booter · Atari 8-bit · NES · TI-99/4A · Commodore 64 · VIC-20 · Apple II · Coleco Adam · ZX Spectrum · MSX · Amstrad CPC · Atari 7800 · Game Boy Advance · Wii · Nintendo 3DSGenres: Genres · Action · Side view · Fixed / flip-screen · Arcade · Platform · Direct control
Donkey Kong is a fixed-screen platform game in which the player controls a carpenter originally identified as Jumpman and later known as Mario. Donkey Kong has carried away a woman called Lady, later named Pauline, and taken her to the top of a...
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Cast & Crew · 12 people
- Hiroshi Yamauchi· Executive Producer
- Gunpei Yokoi· Producer
- Shigeru Miyamoto· Director and Game Designer, Graphic Designer
- Yukio Kaneoka· Sound Composer
- Hirokazu Tanaka· Sound Programmer
- Minoru Arakawa· Conversion Staff
- Yoko Arakawa· Conversion Staff
- Don James· Conversion Staff
- Ron Judy· Conversion Staff
- Howard Phillips· Conversion Staff
- Al Stone· Conversion Staff
- Zavier Leslie Cabarga· US flyer artwork
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