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Nintendo had Donkey Kong for the Atari 8-bit computers. I have the official cartridge. It's actually a pretty good version.
by protomyth 7y ago
Nintendo had Donkey Kong for the Atari 8-bit computers. I have the official cartridge. It's actually a pretty good version.
- reaperducer 7y agoAtari 2600 Donkey Kong is still one of my go-to's on a Friday night. It's crude, but close enough. And the game play is challenging but not too hard. As recently as two Fridays ago.
- einr 7y agoAnd in fact, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and even Mario Bros. were released for the Atari 7800, which came out after the NES and was meant to be a competitor to it, due to Atari still having the license.
- bluedino 7y agoThe 7800 version was far, far superior. It had all the levels, much better graphics and gameplay. That said, the 2600 version (and Coleco version, which was basically the same thing) was incredibly popular.
- LocalH 7y agoAlso pretty sure that if there isn't actually code heritage, the 7800 versions of those games were ported using the NES version as a reference. Is it possible Nintendo either programmed the 7800 version themselves, or actually provided the NES source code for Atari to modify for 7800 hardware? The similarities are too big to ignore (and too specific to the NES version versus the arcade version, which other computer and console ports tended to be more similar to).