Download Donkey Kong (DOS) game

Donkey Kong is a landmark video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and first released by Nintendo in 1981. The original arcade game introduced players to a narrative where a carpenter named Jumpman, who would later become known as Mario, must rescue his girlfriend Pauline from a giant, barrel-throwing ape named Donkey Kong. This game is often credited with establishing the platformer genre and introducing several key elements that would become staples in video gaming, such as multi-stage levels and jump-based mechanics.

Donkey Kong abandonware downloads

Play Donkey Kong online for free Download Donkey Kong - for DOS

Do you have trouble running this game on Windows? Read this guide.

Main executable game file: donkeyk/DK.EXE.

DOS games can't run on Windows. You need a DOS emulator like DOSbox or D-Fend Reloaded. Follow these instructions to play DOS games on Windows 10 or later systems.

More information on Donkey Kong

Status: abandonware
Input: keyboard, joystick
Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk
Abandonware DOS views: 27608

Awards won by Donkey Kong:

1982 - Best Solitaire Videogame, Electronic Games Arcade Awards (ColecoVision).
Selected for 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.
Selected for All-TIME 100 video games TIME.com.

Related sites

Search Donkey Kong on Mobygames

Fan sites:

The Donkey Kong Tribute Page

Remakes:

Champ Kong, remake

Comments

LoftBits 17/11/2022 18:47
I tried to run it on my original IBM 5150 - it won't work.
This is clearly some later remake, as it requires min 386 (runs in DOS protected mode, using dos4gw.EXE (which first came to life in 1986). When the original CGA Donkey Kong was released in 1983 PCs had 256k RAM and nobody dreamed about using Protected Mode / accessing RAM above 640kb...
Sam 22/09/2022 09:05
Maybe because DOSbox was emulating something like a 486 and that was too much for a game that wanted an 8088 processor, emulators like 86box and PCem have nearly flawless emulation of the 8088 so maybe try it on those
Borys 08/09/2021 17:43
when i tried it in dosbox it ran super fast

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