Editing DONKEY.BAS (section)

{{Short description|1981 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = DONKEY.BAS
| image = 
| caption = The ''DONKEY.BAS'' title screen bears the name of the [[IBM Personal Computer]].
| developer = [[Microsoft]]
| publisher = 
| programmer = [[Bill Gates]]<br/>[[Neil Konzen]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1981|08}}
| genre = [[Racing game|Driving]]
| modes = [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
| platforms = [[IBM PC DOS]]
}}
'''''Donkey''''', often known by its [[filename]] '''''DONKEY.BAS''''', is a [[video game]] written in 1981 and included with early versions of the [[IBM PC DOS]] [[operating system]] distributed with the original [[IBM&nbsp;PC]]. It is a top-down [[driving game]] in which the player must avoid hitting [[donkey]]s. The game was written by [[Microsoft]] co-founder [[Bill Gates]] and early employee [[Neil Konzen]].

Although on the game's title screen it is simply named ''Donkey'', it is often referred to by its filename of ''DONKEY.BAS''. All BASIC programs used the ".BAS" [[filename extension|extension]], and MS-DOS-compatible operating systems that came before [[Windows&nbsp;95]] display file names in [[upper case]]. These conventions are often maintained when the game is referred to in writing.