The King (computer game)

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The King was a computer game for the Dragon 32 home computer, written by Tom Mix software and published in the UK by Microdeal in 1983. In terms of gameplay it was a very accurate clone of the arcade game Donkey Kong, and was originally named Donkey King before being renamed, presumably for legal reasons. The gameplay remained unaltered.

[edit] Trivia

• The game used the Dragon's high-resolution graphics mode, which only permitted four colours onscreen; Microdeal thoughtfully permitted the user to choose which of three hard-coded palettes they wished to use.

• The game featured a 'practice mode', which was identical to the normal game, except that instead of the normal three lives, the player received nine. The screen layout, however, only had space to indicate two lives in reserve, so there was no way to know how many lives the player had left until the second reserve vanished, indicating that there were two lives left (including the one in play).

• The game features all four of the levels found in the original Japanese arcade version of Donkey Kong, but, like the American arcade version, players do not progress straight through the levels but encounter them in the order 1, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4.