List of Donkey Kong Video Games - Arcade Games

1982 – Intellivision, ColecoVision, Tabletop miniarcade
1983 – Famicom, Commodore 64, Apple II, PC, TI-99, Atari 8-bit
1985 – Nintendo Entertainment System
1986 – Amstrad CPC
1988 – Atari 7800, Famicom Disk System
2002 – Nintendo e-Reader
2004 – Game Boy Advance
2006 – Wii Virtual Console

• The arcade version was developed by Nintendo.
• Shigeru Miyamoto created it to replace the failed arcade game Radar Scope and to keep Nintendo afloat as a company.
• Donkey Kong was a huge success and sold thousands of cabinets.
• The game introduced both Jumpman (now known as Mario) and Donkey Kong, two of Nintendo's most successful characters.
• It was re-released in a number of home console versions, most of which were not developed by Nintendo, but instead by other third party developers.
• Most of the home console versions cut at least one of the four levels originally seen in the arcade version.
• Coleco manufactured the tabletop miniarcade version.

• The arcade version was developed by Nintendo.
• Donkey Kong Junior is the sequel to the first Donkey Kong arcade game.
• Jumpman's name was changed to Mario in this title.
• Mario also became the antagonist in Junior rather than retain his role as the protagonist from the first game.
• The game was re-released in a number of home console versions similar to the extent of the original Donkey Kong by third-party developers.
• Coleco and Nintendo manufactured the tabletop miniarcade version.

• The arcade version was developed by Nintendo.
• Instead of Mario, the player controls Stanley, who has to shoot Donkey Kong from below with pesticide in order to drive him away from his garden.
• The game is a shooting game instead of a platform game like the previous Donkey Kong games.

• Capcom developed the game.