Nintendo Entertainment System · 1986
Donkey Kong
ドンキーコング
- Developer
- Ikegami Tsushinki
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Country
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Series
- Mario
- Release year
- 1986
- Alternate titles
- 1981 Donkey Kong · Donkey Kong 1981
Standard · 🇯🇵 JP · CIB: 97,8% (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)). Standard · 🇺🇸 US · CIB: 110,4% (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)). Standard · 🇪🇺 EU · CIB: 127% (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)).
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| Región | SEALED | CIB | LOOSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 JP | €365.02 €310.27 – €419.77 | €56.15 €47.73 – €64.57 | €13.79 €11.72 – €15.86 |
| 🇺🇸 US | €378.37 €321.61 – €435.13 | €218.50 €185.73 – €251.27 | €44.15 €37.53 – €50.77 |
| 🇪🇺 EU | €251.74 €213.98 – €289.50 | €136.37 €115.91 – €156.83 | €18.35 €15.60 – €21.10 |
Prices show the median of recorded sales (source: eBay + Heritage auctions + PriceCharting aggregates, the same data that feeds your portfolio). Differences between regions reflect rarity: Japanese AES copies are typically 2–4× cheaper than their European equivalents because they had a much larger print run.
Description
Donkey Kong is a 1981 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for arcades. As Mario (occasionally referred to as "Jumpman" at the time), the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site in New York City and rescue Pauline (occasionally referred to as "The Lady" at the time) from the giant gorilla Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series and Mario's first appearance in a video game. Donkey Kong was created to salvage unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980), and was designed for Nintendo of America's audience. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's president at the time, assigned the project to first-time video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Drawing inspiration from "Beauty and the Beast" and American media such as Popeye and King Kong, Miyamoto developed the characters and scenario and designed the game alongside chief engineer Gunpei Yokoi. Donkey Kong was the most complex arcade game released at that point, using graphics for characterization, including cutscenes to illustrate a plot, and integrating multiple unique stages into the gameplay. The game pioneered the platform genre bef...
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Releases
| Platform | Region | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo Entertainment System | 🇯🇵 JP | 1986 | Nintendo |
| Nintendo Entertainment System | 🇺🇸 US | 1986 | Nintendo |
| Nintendo Entertainment System | 🇪🇺 EU | 1986 | Nintendo |
