This morning Sega held a livestream talking about their August plans for 404 Game Re:Set, their Yoko Taro helmed game about anime girl versions of arcade games. During the stream it was revealed that Street Fighter II, Zaxxon, and Virtua Cop would be added to the game! A full write up on the stream details is included below
The original Donkey Kong arcade game's programming was farmed out to the company Ikegami Tsushinki; four programmers there were tasked with creating the game based on Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto's design documents. Working with Miyamoto's input, they transformed and invented a lot of the final game's elements themselves, including allowing the player to jump!
The four would next go on to program Zaxxon for Sega. : )
Ikegami Tsushinki would later sue Nintendo successfully for using their Donkey Kong code in Nintendo's Donkey Kong Jr. without Ikegami Tsushinki's permission.
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