NYC - Queens - Astoria: Museum of the Moving Image - Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is an arcade game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and released by Nintendo in 1981. Miyamoto's game, developed with Nintendo's chief engineer, Gunpei Yokoi, is considered to be the earliest video game with a storyline that visually unfolded on screen. An early example of the platform game genre, its protagonist Jumpman (later renamed Mario) must rescue a damsel in distress, Lady, from his mistreated pet, a giant ape named Donkey Kong. An success in both North America and Japan, Nintendo licensed the game to Coleco, who developed home console versions for numerous platforms.
The Museum of the Moving Image, located at 36-01 35 Avenue in Astoria, promotes the public understanding and appreciation of the art, history, technique and technology of film, television, and digital media by collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving-image related artifacts via multimedia exhibitions and educational programming. Originally established in 1977 as the Astoria Motion Picture and Television Center Foundation, opened on September 10, 1988, in the former East Coast home as Paramount Pictures as the first museum in the United States that was evoted solely to the art, history and technology of film, television and video. Following a $67 million expansion by architect Thomas Lesser, starting in March 2008, the museum doubled its size and reopened in January 2011.