![]() ![]() ![]() 'Donkey Kong' was a popular arcade game released in 1981. Many titles were released across the different versions, although the games were not interchangeable between them: each had a single, inbuilt game. The Game & Watch series spanned several versions throughout the 1980s, until superseded in 1989 by the Game Boy. The idea of simple handheld game supposedly sprung from Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi’s observation of a commuter fiddling with an LCD calculator whilst on a train. The previous year, 1980, had seen the release of Nintendo’s first Game & Watch handheld console. Nintendo began to produce arcade games from 1975, although the company’s fortune was truly made in 1981 with the release of the Donkey Kong in 1981, the title character being designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, who also designed Nintendo’s signature character Mario (an early version of whom appeared in Donkey Kong as ‘Jumpman’). In 1974, they were able to secure the contract to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey home video games console in Japan, which marked their first entry into this market. Nintendo entered the electronic toy industry in 1966, producing a series of early light gun games, but not to great success. Nintendo is among the world’s largest video games companies, originally founded in 1889 in Kyoto, Japan, as a manufacturer of hanafuda playing cards. ![]()
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