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Killer Gorilla
Killer Gorilla is a clone of "Donkey Kong" written by Adrian Stephens and originally published by Micro Power for the BBC Micro in 1983 and ported to the Acorn Electron and Amstrad CPC computers in 1984.
Stephens wrote "Killer Gorilla" at the age of 17 after buying a magazine with screenshots of "Donkey Kong". He was paid 400 pounds for the game. Stephens wrote two other games for Micro Power: "Escape From Moonbase Alpha" and "Mr EE", a clone of Universal
license to use the name "King Kong" from Universal City Studios. Under this title, Tiger created a handheld game with a scenario and gameplay based directly on Nintendo's creation.
Many home computer clones directly borrowed the gorilla theme: "Killer Gorilla" (BBC Micro, 1983), "Killer Kong" (ZX Spectrum, 1983), "Crazy Kong 64" (Commodore 64, 1983), "Kongo Kong" (Commodore 64, 1983), "Donkey King" (TRS-80 Color Computer,