Donkey Kong (Game & Watch): Difference between revisions

'''''Donkey Kong''''' is a dual-screen [[Game & Watch]] version of the [[Donkey Kong (game)|classic arcade game of the same name]]. It was released as part of the Multi Screen series on June 3, 1982, and has the model number DK-52.<ref name=ITA>[http://web.archive.org/web/20220304100541/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/donkey_kong.htm ''Donkey Kong'' info page on In The Attic, a website dedicated to classic videogames] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved 13 November 2010</ref> This Game & Watch was the very first piece of video game hardware to use the now-iconic cross-shaped directional pad.<ref>[https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/4/ Iwata Asks : Game & Watch : Recreating Ball 30 Years Later]</ref> Its gameplay is similar to that of the arcade version: [[Donkey Kong]] has captured [[Pauline]], and [[Mario]] must rescue her. The game was later [[Reissue#Ports|ported]] to ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 2]]'' and ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]'', both of which include an updated "Modern" version of the game. A port of ''Donkey Kong'' was released in ''[[Game & Watch Collection]]'' for the dual-screened [[Nintendo DS]], allowing for an exact replication of the original gameplay. There is also a [[Mini Classics]] release of the game.