Nintendo STOLE this game and got sued for $14,000,000

Nintendo's biggest arcade hit, Donkey Kong, was actually programmed by another company! And when Nintendo started secretly copying the game's code, they got sued for ¥580 million - about $14 million, adjusted for inflation! PATREON - https://patreon.com/ThomasGameDocs MERCH - https://www.thomasmerchdocs.com TWITTER - https://twitter.com/thomasgdocs SOURCES - https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/feature_shining_a_light_on_ikegami_tsushinki_the_company_that_developed_donkey_kong - http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Ikegami_Tsushinki - https://www.mc-law.jp/kigyohomu/24294/ - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-secret-history-of-i-donkey-kong-i- - https://web.archive.org/web/20110831235444/http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~ninten-zatsugaku/donkeykong.html - https://jotaroraido.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/the-battle-of-donkey-kong/ - https://twitter.com/Area51_zek/status/723106989354577920 - https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/11/feature_donkey_kong_64_devs_on_bugs_boxing_and_20_years_of_the_dk_rap CREDITS Donkey Kong Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHJhla8TO4 Donkey Kong Jr Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOJN-zq6yg Donkey Kong NES Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_PrG8P5W8o Radar Scope Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kbliYx51ok Donkey Kong Arcade Photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/149561324@N03/36615528341 https://www.flickr.com/photos/robboudon/541896810/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mouser-nerdbot/5087951695/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/6457264109/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/daryl_mitchell/49915439002/in/photostream/ DK 64 Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He8t4J1ebDo