Donkey Kong is an arcade platform game announced by Nintendo in Japan on July 9, 1981, and released in mid-July 1981, then in North America later that month and Europe later that year. The game was ported by Nintendo Research & Development 2 to Nintendo’s Family Computer (Famicom) console and released in Japan on July 15, 1983, as one of the system’s three launch games. Masayuki Uemura, the Famicom’s lead architect, designed the console specifically to faithfully recreate Donkey Kong.
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