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Challenge 2: Donkey Kong (1981, Arcade)

Donkey Kong is an enormously important game for a myriad of reasons. It’s the prototypical single screen platform game that launched and popularized the platform genre. It’s first game to tell a complete story through cut scenes. It saved a struggling Nintendo of America by repurposing unsold Radar Scope arcade cabinets into a smash hit. It’s also the first appearance of Mario! It is no exaggeration that video games would not be what they are today without this game.

How to Play

Donkey Kong has 4 stages, but the first two loops of the game only give you 2 and 3 stages respectively, so you only see the full game on the third loop. The goal of most stages is to climb to the top of the screen while avoiding obstacles. The goal of the final stage is to run over the 8 bolts in the girders to defeat DK.

Control Action
Joystick Move
Button 1 Jump

Emulator: MAME
ROM: dkong.zip (archive.org)

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