Game copyrights belong entirely to Nintendo.Īs a Nintendo's games lover I wanted to express my tribute to the Mario/Donkey Kong serie and to game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. I tried to simulate the game logic and timing spending multiple hours watching videos of the original game. With this project I am willing to replicate the behaviour of the original Donkey Kong by Nintendo. Unfortunately I only got a syntax error in exchange of my passionate description of the game.ģ5 years later I found the will to try it again and this time things have gone a bit better. I need to reach the top of the screen, I can get a hammer etc.' 'I want a game where I am a plumber who needs to avoid barrels that Kong launches, by jumping them. They outsourced the original code to a separate company, who later successfully sued them for its reuse in the sequel, Donkey Kong Jr.When I was 10 years old I got a C64 and thought it could be programmed in natural language. It is common place for each game to include a 'Terms of Use' that strictly prohibit said actions, but this can often be overridden by your residing countries legal definition of 'Fair Use'.ġ In terms of the original game, it could be argued that Nintendo, themselves, do not have complete rights, as detailed in a Gamasutra article on The Secret History of Donkey Kong. You might be able to work something out through emulation, however, this takes you into a questionable grey area in terms of legality. This is a common practice for Nintendo, as games can be released 'exclusively', meaning that if you want to play the new games, you will have to buy their new console. You can not own the rights to a game idea If the game is similar on mechanics, alone, it is not enough to declare it a copy of the intellectual property. The version you played on the internet was likely a clone, or a cheap copy. Donkey Kong was originally created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and the rights to the video game still belong mostly 1 to Nintendo.Īs such, no original version has been made without direct authorisation from Nintendo, including on competing console or web.

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