"Donkey Kong" was such a huge hit in arcades that a wave of copycat companies started ripping off Nintendo's game.

The foundation of the video game industry lies in arcade games that introduced the medium to millions worldwide in the '70s and '80s. Before home consoles and personal gaming computers became widely ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Nintendo's biggest shift occurred in the 1980s, when they rose to global prominence in ...

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Despite being Nintendo’s original mascot and being one of legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s most iconic character creations, Donkey Kong has had a bit of a weird history of getting his own ...