Monkey Magic (video game)

{{short description|1979 video game}}

{{Infobox VG

| title = Monkey Magic

| image = Monkey Magic arcade flyer Nintendo.png

| caption = Arcade flyer

| developer = {{Unbulleted list

| Nintendo R&D1

| Ikegami Tsushinki{{Cite web|last=McFerran|first=Damien|date=2018-02-26|title=Feature: Shining A Light On Ikegami Tsushinki, The Company That Developed Donkey Kong|url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/feature_shining_a_light_on_ikegami_tsushinki_the_company_that_developed_donkey_kong|access-date=2020-06-09|website=Nintendo Life|language=en-GB}}

}}

| publisher = Nintendo

| designer = Nintendo

| released = December 1979

| genre = Breakout

| modes = Single-player

| platforms = Arcade

}}

{{Nihongo foot|Monkey Magic|モンキー・マジック|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a 1979 arcade game released by Nintendo exclusively in Japan. The game is a Breakout clone, and one of Nintendo's earliest arcade games. Ikegami Tsushinki did design work on the game.{{cite web|url=http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Company:Ikegami_Tsushinki |title=Company:Ikegami Tsushinki - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute |publisher=Gdri.smspower.org |date= |accessdate=2011-04-21}}[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/bn2islander/20080817/1218980061 ドンキーコング裁判についてちょこっと考えてみる] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312191324/http://d.hatena.ne.jp/bn2islander/20080817/1218980061 |date=2010-03-12}} Thinking a bit about Donkey Kong, accessed 2009-02-01{{Nihongo|It started from Pong|それは『ポン』から始まった: アーケードTVゲームの成り立ち|sore wa pon kara hajimatta: ākēdo terebi gēmu no naritachi}}, {{Nihongo|Masumi Akagi|赤木真澄|Akagi Masumi}}, {{Nihongo|Amusement Tsūshinsha|アミューズメント通信社|Amyūzumento Tsūshinsha}}, 2005, {{ISBN|4-9902512-0-2}}. Players control a paddle to hit the ball at a large number of blocks shaping a monkey's face. To win, the player must destroy the entire face of the monkey. Players can earn points by catching blocks that fall, and hitting the ball in different places.