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Donkey Kong
| Title | Donkey Kong |
|---|---|
| First release | 1981 |
| Developers | Ikegami Tsushinki, Nintendo, Nintendo Research & Development 1 |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Platforms | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, DOS, Famicom Disk System, Intellivision, MSX, NES / Famicom, ZX Spectrum |
| Genre | platformer |
| Also known as | ドンキーコング · Donkī Kongu |
| Players | 1–2 players |
| Co-op | No |
| ESRB rating | E Everyone |
| Releases | Arcade: 1981-07-09 (NTSC-J), 1981-07-31 (NTSC-U) Intellivision: 1982-01-01 Atari 2600: 1982-06-01, 1982-06-01 (NTSC), 1983-12-31 (PAL) ColecoVision: 1982-08-01 (NTSC-U) Commodore VIC-20: 1983-01-01 DOS: 1983-01-01 (Other) Atari 8-bit: 1983-07-09 NES / Famicom: 1983-07-15 (NTSC-J), 1986-06-01 (NTSC-U), 1986-06-01 (NTSC), 1986-10-15 (PAL) |
| Wikidata ID | Q12384 |
Climb ladders and balance on beams to navigate a construction site while dodging barrels and fireballs tossed by Donkey Kong. This Atari 2600 port features two stages where Mario must outmaneuver the giant ape to rescue Lady from the top of the structure.
Description: REG-Vault, CC BY-SA 4.0 Facts from Wikidata (CC0), gaps filled from REG-Vault and TheGamesDB and Arcade Database (ADB). Only retro platforms tracked by this site are listed; the year is the earliest release date recorded on Wikidata.Sources
TheGamesDB
(5,97152,108532,108826)
· last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only
Arcade Database ADB
| MAME romset | dkong |
|---|---|
| Title at ADB | Donkey Kong (US set 1) |
| Manufacturer | Nintendo of America |
| Year | 1981 |
| Genre | Platform / Run Jump |
| Players | 2 |
| MAME driver status | GOOD |
Artwork: ADB (Arcade Database); artwork © original manufacturer (Nintendo of America); snaps by ProgettoSnaps via ADB. Non-free, internal use only (hotlinked, not downloaded).
Scraping using Arcade Database by motoschifo ·
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 ·
romset via Wikidata P2451 (wikidata-qid) ·
fetched 2026-10-03 16:59 UTC · no fields filled (other sources take precedence)
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Box art
Box art (front) 1
Box art 6
Screenshots 12
Logos 6
Artwork 3
Commons 1
Sprites 2
Image credits
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork
(21): Source: REG-Vault (upstream not stated) · © Nintendo · internal use only.
REG-Vault page
Box art
(1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Nintendo · internal use only.
TheGamesDB page
Box art, Logos
(2): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Nintendo · internal use only.
TheGamesDB page
Screenshots
(3): Source: libretro-thumbnails (upstream libretro-thumbnails (art by developers/publishers; see repo README)) · © Nintendo · internal use only.
Sprites (2): fan rips from sprite sites, credited per sheet (ripper, site, rights) in Sprites below; internal use only.
Image: Joshua Driggs (ZapWizard) (take photo), bayo (remove the background),
CC BY-SA 2.0,
via Wikimedia Commons (“Donkey Kong arcade.jpg”)
Sprites
Arcade version · 2 sheets · Donkey Kong on The Spriters Resource ↗ (7 sheets on the site; 2 stored here)
Characters and Objects
#252263 · fetched 2026-09-29 17:13 UTC
25 M/50 M
#45989 · fetched 2026-09-29 17:13 UTC
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credited to the ripper and linked to their page on the source site; internal use only.
“Rip by” is the uploader credit shown on the site. Click a sheet to view it at full size (pixel-exact zoom).
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Videos
Commodore 64 Longplay [273] Donkey Kong (Oxyron) (Public Domain)
NES Longplay [005] Donkey Kong
