Donkey Kong - 1981 (ARC)

DONKEY KONG ドンキーコング ©1981 Nintendo Version: Arcade (ARC) Publisher: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Production: NINTENDO - RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 1 DIVISION (R&D1) Development: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Additional Work: IKEGAMI TSUSHINKI CO., LTD.

KEY STAFF: NINTENDO CO., LTD. Director: Shigeru Miyamoto Visual: Shigeru Miyamoto Sound: Yukio Kaneoka, Hirokazu Tanaka Production: Gunpei Yokoi Executive: Hiroshi Yamauchi IKEGAMI TSUSHINKI CO., LTD. Program: Hirohisa Komanome, Minoru Iinuma, Mitsuhiro Nishida, Yasuhiro Murata Manager: Masayo Oka

NOTES: Donkey Kong is a 1981 arcade video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 with program consigment from Ikegami Tsushinki. Shigeru Miyamoto from the Creative Department, was working under Yokoi's group as the lead designer of this game. The game features Mario, who runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series as well as Mario's first appearance in a video game. Donkey Kong was created in part to salvage unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980). Full Staff List: Donkey Kong (ARC) Credits

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Version: Arcade (WW)
Source: KRIRM. Nintendo JP.
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