Donkey Kong was released for the arcade in 1981, but came out on the Famicom, the Japanese version of the NES, in 1983. Miyamoto had nothing to do with this version, he said. "The porting of ...

This week: We've talked about the impact of Donkey Kong a lot in our Famicom and Sega SG-1000 retrospectives; now let's talk about the game itself. For millions of Japan's former children ...

This exchange was followed by the launch of the Famicom in 1983 ... struck a deal to include a copy of the arcade hit Donkey Kong with every ColecoVision, which unsurprisingly boosted sales ...

By the time the Famicom arrived, Donkey Kong had made the rounds. After its glorious success in the arcades, it showed up in fairly horrible fashion on Atari 2600 and Intellivision, followed by a ...

or Famicom, in Japan. The 8-bit console built on Nintendo’s early ‘80s arcade success, launching with versions of the popular games Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. It wasn’t an ...

Donkey Kong was released for the NES in 1985, but its Japanese roots on the Famicom go back a couple of years earlier than that. As such, this goes back to the bare-bones days of the system--back ...

The success of Donkey Kong in the early-80s allowed Nintendo to further explore the American and worldwide markets alike, and by the mid-80s release of the Famicom/NES, Donkey Kong was just one of ...

with one of the most well-loved examples of this being the original 1994 Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo (aka the Super Famicom in Japan). Despite his games being in the same vein as ...

Even underappreciated narrative games like the Famicom Detective Club titles have seen a renaissance on the Switch. Although Donkey Kong Country Returns HD will be its definitive version ...

While Mario has become the face of Nintendo, and perhaps video games as a whole, it’s important to remember that it was in a Donkey Kong game that he really became an icon. Since then ...

The best ideas for Donkey Kong were thought up when designer Shigeru Miyamoto was fully nude. Just think on that for a while. Miyamoto didn't work on the NES version of Donkey Kong, but he did ...