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In 1983, Ikegami Tsushinki sued Nintendo on the ground that the company had violated the contract and produced around 80,000 arcade boards on its own<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref>. Ikegami Tsushinki also sought compensation for the use of reverse-engineered ''Donkey Kong'' code in ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]''<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref> and claimed it owned the copyright on <i>Donkey Kong</i>'s code (while the contract did not specify ownership of the code, a judgment relating to ''{{wp|Space Invaders Part II}}'' set a precedent establishing computer code can be copyrighted<ref name="Sore wa"></ref>). In response, Nintendo claimed it owned ''Donkey Kong'''s code as Ikegami Tsushinki was hired as a sub-contractor<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref>. | In 1983, Ikegami Tsushinki sued Nintendo on the ground that the company had violated the contract and produced around 80,000 arcade boards on its own<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref>. Ikegami Tsushinki also sought compensation for the use of reverse-engineered ''Donkey Kong'' code in ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]''<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref> and claimed it owned the copyright on <i>Donkey Kong</i>'s code (while the contract did not specify ownership of the code, a judgment relating to ''{{wp|Space Invaders Part II}}'' set a precedent establishing computer code can be copyrighted<ref name="Sore wa"></ref>). In response, Nintendo claimed it owned ''Donkey Kong'''s code as Ikegami Tsushinki was hired as a sub-contractor<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref>. | ||
The case went to the Tokyo District Court until March 26, 1990, at which point the two companies settled out of court<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref>. | The case went to the Tokyo District Court until March 26, 1990, at which point the two companies settled out of court<ref name="Gamasutra"></ref><ref name="Sore wa"></ref>. The lawsuit has often been stated to be the reason behind the lack of rereleases of the arcade version of ''Donkey Kong'' until 2018 and the existence of ''Donkey Kong Original Edition''; ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' nevertheless features a full port of the arcade version, albeit with slight differences as it closely imitates the source code. | ||
==Re-releases== | ==Re-releases== | ||
