Donkey Kong Research Paper

Have you ever wondered which video games had the most significant impact on the growth of the video game industry. If you walked up to a random person on the street and asked them what the first video game made was they would most likely say "Pong" . Pong ,created by Allan Alcorn and published by Atari in 1972, is most famously known for being one of the earliest video games known that significantly impacted the growth of the video game industry. Similar to table tennis your objective is to beat your opponent, which was either a computer controlled opponent or a real person, by achieving a higher score. As a result of being a unique rare experience to people back then, Pong easily achieved mainstream popularity. Although most gamers know that …show more content…
Straight out of college Miyamoto decided to join Nintendo in hopes of designing toys. However at that time Nintendo was exploring the market of coin operated video games. The president of Nintendo assigned Miyamoto to create the promotional and cabinet art for their new video games "Sherriff" and "Radar Scope". After the release of the two games, which did significantly well in Japan, they realized that Namco was making a lot of profit off of the American market and as a result Nintendo decided to release "Sherriff" and "Radar Scope" in America. To Nintendo's surprise the two games did extremely poorly and left Nintendo in a devastating …show more content…
While designing Miyamoto wanted to create a game based on Popeye and his never-ending struggle to save his damsel, Olive Oyl, from Bluto. However Nintendo could not obtain the license to it so he decided to take the concept and implement it into a King Kong theme. In the game "Jumpman" , who later became Mario, had to climb up a construction site while having to dodge fire and barrels thrown at him and save his girlfriend Pauline from Donkey Kong. Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi realized that Miyamoto's game was the one that would save Nintendo. Donkey Kong easily became a hit worldwide and saved Nintendo but also made it one of the major players in the American video game market. Donkey Kong is without a doubt one of video games biggest contributors for both the spread of video games but also the growth of the video game industry and market. As stated by game journalist Travis Fahs, " if you can't imagine a world without Super Mario Brothers, without the NES, and maybe even without Nintendo at all, then you can't imagine a world without Donkey