Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and owned by Nintendo. It follows the adventures of a gorilla named Donkey Kong and his clan of other apes and monkeys. The franchise primarily consists of platform games—originally single-screen action puzzle games and later side-scrolling platformers. The first game was the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong, featuring the eponymous character as the main antagonist in an industrial construction setting and the debut of both the Donkey Kong and Mario characters. The game was a massive success and was followed by two sequels released in 1982 and 1983.
Donkey Kong Country was the first fully new entry in the series for 10 years. Released in November 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), and developed by British game developer Rare. The game took the Donkey Kong series in a new direction, becoming a showcase title to show off then-revolutionary computer-generated imagery (CGI) graphics. In Donkey Kong Country, the original Donkey Kong's grandson, also called Donkey Kong, is the hero and he and his sidekick Diddy Kong have to save his hoard of bananas from the thieving King K. Rool and his Kremling Krew. It is an action side-scrolling game similar to the Mario series and was enormously popular for its graphics, music, and gameplay.
