July 9, 1981 · Game
Donkey Kong (1981)
Arcade. Mario, then called Jumpman, debuts.
Made Nintendo a force in North America.
See 1981 in the interactive timeline
Facts
- Date
- July 9, 1981
- Kind
- Game
- Maker or publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo R&D1)
- Genre
- Platformer
- Platform
- Arcade
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Related
- Super Mario Bros. (sequel, 1985)
- Game & Watch (released on, 1980)
- NES Classic Edition (released on, 2016)
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- Byte magazine devotes an issue to Smalltalk-80 Event
- IBM PC (5150) Computer or hardware
- Sony Mavica prototype Computer or hardware
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