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.

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.

" He would later change this to " Monkey Muscle " for the similar Donkey Kong Jr. character he would voice for TV's Saturday Supercade.

The events leading to Luigi's creation began in 1982, during the development of Donkey Kong, where the Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto had created Mario ( then known as " Jumpman ") hoping that he would be able to recast the character in a variety of different roles in future games.

Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.

DK debuted at the same time as Mario, and he still spars with Mario on occasion, appearing as a playable character in the Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. series, and is the primary antagonist in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games.

The Donkey Kong Country series introduced the setting, Donkey Kong Island, and backstory for the character.

The original Donkey Kong ( later established to be a younger version of Cranky Kong from the Donkey Kong Country series ) made his first appearance as the titular character of the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong alongside protagonist Mario ( then known as " Jumpman ") and damsel in distress, the Lady ( later renamed Pauline ).

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

The 1994 Game Boy version of Donkey Kong marked his re-emergence as a major character.

Every Mario Kart game has featured a version of Donkey Kong as a playable character.

Super Mario Kart featured Donkey Kong Junior as a playable character.

Donkey Kong was also a selectable character in Mario Tennis, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Tennis: Power Tour and Mario Tennis Open.

Donkey Kong appeared in Super Smash Bros. as the first character from the Donkey Kong series.

* Donkey Kong, the titular character and the first playable character in the game, is a large, muscular Mountain Gorilla who wears a red monogrammed necktie.

It is the last Mario Party game to have Donkey Kong as a playable character, and it is also the last Mario Party game to have Wario wearing his classic long-sleeve shirt.

This would become the standard look for Donkey Kong still used over two decades later.

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!

However, some of these removed features were later brought back in the third game, Donkey Kong Country 3.

The game was later followed by Donkey Kong Land 2 and Donkey Kong Land III which are both for the Game Boy along with Donkey Kong Land itself.

* Diddy Kong, who debuted in Donkey Kong Country, is a monkey in a red baseball cap and T-shirt, then later bearing a yellow star on the back.

It was later made for Donkey Kong 64, under the slightly altered level name " Fungi Forest " and used the same music.

A posthumous album, The Autumn Stone, was released later in 1969, and included the major Immediate recordings, a rare live concert performance, and a number of previously unreleased tracks recorded for their intended fourth LP, 1862, including the classic Swinging Sixties instrumental " Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall " and " Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass ", co-written by Ian McLagan.

This interval was later the basis of the book My Family and Other Animals and its successors, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives and The Garden of the Gods, plus a few short stories like " My Donkey Sally ".

With the notable exception of Drop the Dead Donkey decades later, sitcoms rarely contained such topical references.

In 1995 he composed the music for The Ant & Dec Show on Children's BBC, and later worked on their SMTV Live programme, for which he wrote the popular Wonky Donkey jingle amongst other themes.

The Expansion Pack was later bundled with Donkey Kong 64 worldwide.

He collaborated with the satirical sheet El Burro ( The Donkey ) and became later one of the principal contributors to the satirical magazine La Campana ( The Bell ).