Lost In Translation/Donkey Kong
From ExoticA
This page is a stub for arcade games that are part of the Lost In Translation series using information based on MAME (version 0.113u2).
For an example of preferred content and layout please refer to Out Run or The Ninja Warriors.
| Donkey Kong | |
|---|---|
 | |
 | |
 | |
| Manufacturer | Nintendo of America |
| Released | 1981 |
| Control Method | 4-way Joystick 1 Button(s) |
| Main CPU | Z80 (@ 3.072 MHz) I8035 (@ 400.000 kHz) |
| Sound CPU | Mono Discrete |
| Video Details | Raster (Vertical) 256 x 224 pixels 60.61 Hz 521 Palette colours |
| Screens | 1 |
| ROM Info | 15 ROMs 33,536 bytes (32.75 KiB) |
| MAME ID | dkong · dkongjo · dkongjo1 · dkongjp · dkongo |
About The Game
The game was originally going to be called 'Monkey Kong' but, as with "Continental Circus", a mistake during the translation process from Japanese to English resulted in the now legendary name. The game's creator, the equally-legendary Shigiru Miyamoto denies this story to this day - claiming that the naming is deliberate as he wanted an animal name that would capture the 'stubborn' nature of the Kong character (as in 'stubborn as a mule'). Few within the industry believe this explanation, however.
Ports
- Consoles
- Colecovision (1982)
- Mattel Intellivision (1982)
- Atari 2600 (1983)
- Atari XEGS
- Atari 7800 (1988)
- Nintendo Famicom (1986)
- Nintendo Famicom (1988, "Donkey Kong Classics")
- Nintendo Game Boy (1994)
- Nintendo 64 (1999, "Donkey Kong 64")
- Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002, e-Reader Series)
- Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2004, Famicom Mini Series)
- Nintendo Famicom Disk
- Computers
- Tandy Color Computer (1982, "Dunkey Munkey")
- Tandy Color Computer (1982, "Donkey King")
- Tandy Color Computer (1983, "The King")
- Tandy Color Computer (1983, "Monkey Kong")
- PC [Booter] (1983)
- PC [Booter] (1983, "Gorilla Gorilla", a part of the "Friendlyware PC Arcade" suite)
- Commodore VIC-20 (1983)
- Apple II (1983)
- Atari 800 (1983)
- Commodore C64 (1983)
- TI99/4A (1983, "Donkey Kong", Atarisoft)
- BBC B (1984, "Killer Gorilla" - Micropower)
- Acorn Electorn (1984, "Killer Gorilla" - Micropower)
- Amstrad CPC (1986)
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1983, "Kong" - Ocean)
- Sinclair ZX-Spectrum (1986, "Donkey Kong" - Ocean)
- MSX
- PC [MS-DOS] (1997, "ChampKong" - CHAMProgramming)
- Others
- VFD handheld game (1982) released by Coleco.
- LCD handheld game (Game&Watch) released by Nintendo (double screen)
External Links
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of Donkey Kong at the World of Spectrum
