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Offline mhcapps

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New site dedicated to all Donkey Kong info
« on: January 18, 2025, 04:43:36 pm »
This was posted on KLOV by a member there so I wanted to share it here as well:

https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/articles/donkey_kong/donkey_kong.html

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Re: New site dedicated to all Donkey Kong info
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2025, 05:17:42 pm »
https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/articles/donkey_kong/donkey_kong.html:
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When the game was completed, new cabinet artwork was created with plans to initially release it in Japan (on July 9th 1981), before sending it to the U.S. (July 31st, 1981).

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In 1981, the Japanese video arcade game “Donkey Kong” was released by Nintendo.
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