Donkey Kong downloads
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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.
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Additional info about Donkey Kong
The original game Donkey Kong was one of the most iconic arcade games ever made. It's a single-screen platform arcade where you, as a plumber, have to save your lover avoiding barrels thrown at you by a giant ape.
Title: Donkey Kong
First released in: 1981
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Designer: Shigeru Miyamoto
Originally developed for: arcades
Also released for: every platform you can think of
Status: abandonware
Input: keyboard, joystick
Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk
Abandonware DOS views: 24994
Awards won by Donkey Kong:
Input: keyboard, joystick
Distributed on: 5,25 floppy disk
Abandonware DOS views: 24994
- 1982 - Best Solitaire Videogame, Electronic Games Arcade Awards (ColecoVision).
- Selected for All-TIME 100 video games TIME.com.
Related sites (fansites, Wikis, official pages):
- Search Donkey Kong on Mobygames
- Champ Kong, remake - remake
- The Donkey Kong Tribute Page - fansite
Comments
- LoftBits 17/11/2022 18:47I 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 09:05Maybe 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 17:43when i tried it in dosbox it ran super fast
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