Its pack-in game, Super Breakout, was particularly criticized for not doing enough to demonstrate the system's capabilities, and this gave the ColecoVision a significant advantage when its pack-in, Donkey Kong, delivered a more authentic arcade experience than any previous game cartridge.

Atari 7800 with Donkey Kong Junior cartridge

Coleco licensed Nintendo's Donkey Kong as the official pack-in cartridge for all ColecoVision consoles, and this version of the game was well received as a near-perfect arcade port, helping to boost the console's popularity.

ColecoVision Donkey Kong Pack-in Game Cartridge

Some of the more popular games include Donkey Kong ( the pack-in ), Donkey Kong Jr., Carnival, Lady Bug, Mouse Trap, and Zaxxon.

* KAOS, the cyborgnetic leader of the Kremling Krew in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

Super Mario Kart features eight playable characters from the Mario series – Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong Jr., Koopa Troopa and Toad.

These powers are specific to each character ; for example, Yoshi drops eggs which cause players who hit them to lose coins and spin, while Donkey Kong Jr. throws bananas.

The Donkey Kong character in later Mario Kart games is considered to be the grown-up version of Super Mario Karts Donkey Kong Jr.

Other games which reference the series are Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and the Animal Crossing series.

In Donkey Kong Country 3, one of the Bear Brothers mentions a traveler " interested in the castle " who attempted to pay for the information with Rupees.

Popular video games include: Turrican, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Digger, Tetris and Golden Axe.

* Donkey Kong becomes the first ever Super Mario game.

Mario Kart: Super Circuit screenshot with ( L-R ) Bowser ( character ) | Bowser, Yoshi, Donkey Kong ( character ) | DK and Wario on Peach Circuit

The cast is made up of the same characters from Mario Kart 64 ( Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Wario and Toad ).

According to this game, Peach was classified as lighter than Yoshi and Bowser was classified heavier than Donkey Kong, although most Mario games classify Peach being heavier than Yoshi while Bowser is lighter than Donkey Kong.

Donkey Kong resumed his antagonistic role in Donkey Kong 3, this time the character Stanley The Bugman taking Mario's place as the protagonist.

Despite his name being in the titles of both games, DK is the damsel-in-distress in the sequels Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble !, where he is captured by K. Rool.

Rhythm games generally use controllers resembling musical instruments, such as guitars ( from 5-button guitars in Guitar Freaks, the Guitar Hero series, the Rock Band series to real guitars in Rock Band 3 and Rocksmith ), keyboards ( Rock Band 3 ), drums ( Donkey Konga, Drum Mania, the Rock Band series and the Guitar Hero series ), or maracas ( Samba de Amigo ) have also seen some success in arcades and home consoles.

The game added the ability to pick up and toss enemies and objects, a move that has become part of Mario's permanent repertoire, appearing in other Mario games including Super Mario Bros. 3, Donkey Kong ( Game Boy ), Super Mario World, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Super Mario 64, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

* Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

Screenshot of Donkey Kong 3 ( arcade version ).

Donkey Kong 3 predates most gaming magazines and Internet review sites, but since its release on the Wii's Virtual Console, some gamers have critiqued it.

Donkey Kong 3 was not as successful as the previous two games, perhaps because its game structure is dramatically different.

Hudson Soft ported Donkey Kong 3 to the Japan-only NEC PC-8801 and FM-7 in 1984.

A Multi-Screen Game & Watch title, which is similar to Donkey Kong 3, is entitled Greenhouse.

* Donkey Kong 3 at NinDB

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Donkey Kong Country 2 was released on December 14, 1995 as a sequel to the original Donkey Kong Country ( 1994 ) which was later followed by Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

" Arkadaşım Eşşek " (" My Friend Donkey "), quickly grew very popular among children ( the song is about rural nostalgia and was not initially intended as a children's song ).

Its rapid production schedule was inspired by UK series Drop The Dead Donkey, where each episode was written and taped in a single week and scripts were closely based on the real news stories of the preceding seven days.

The first release was Donkey Ride, a collaboration with Quantic, released in May 2008.

Other such weapons include the " Concrete Donkey ", one of the most powerful weapons in the game, which is based on a garden ornament in Andy Davidson's home garden, and an airstrike known in the game as Mike's Carpet Bomb was actually inspired by a store near the Team17 headquarters called " Mike's Carpets ".

Desmond's ( 1989 – 94 ) was the first British sitcom with a black cast set in the workplace, and Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 – 98 ) brought topicality to the form as it was recorded close to transmission.

Another variant, the ROM-less 8035, was used in Nintendo's arcade game Donkey Kong.

Mario Bros. was created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, two of the lead developers for the video game Donkey Kong.

While Mario was originally portrayed as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, the duo of Mario and Luigi in Mario Bros. were styled as Italian plumbers by Miyamoto, on the suggestion of a colleague.

Software constraints of the time — similar to those that gave Mario his distinctive look in Donkey Kong — meant Luigi's first appearance was restricted to a simple palette swap of Mario designed to represent the second player.

Donkey Kong was Mario's first opponent in Nintendo's popular 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong.

The new Donkey Kong introduced in " Donkey Kong Country " was initially characterized as the grandson of the original Donkey Kong, who appears in the game as an elderly ape named Cranky Kong, however Donkey Kong 64 states that the current Donkey Kong was actually meant to be Cranky Kong's son, with one source implying that he is a grown-up version of Donkey Kong Jr.