Editing Donkey Kong Jr. (Table Top)

{{about|the Table Top version|New Wide Screen version|[[Donkey Kong Jr. (New Wide Screen)]]}}
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{{game infobox
|image=[[File:Donkey Kong Jr Tabletop.png|200px]]
|developer=[[Nintendo Research & Development 1]]
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|release='''Game & Watch:'''<br>'''Table Top:'''<br>{{flag list|USA|April 23, 1983|Japan|April 28, 1983<ref name=SSBB>''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' {{iw|smashwiki|Chronicle}}</ref>}}'''Panorama Screen:'''<br>{{flag list|Japan|October 7, 1983<ref name=SSBB/>|USA|October 7, 1983<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=http://web.archive.org/web/20211027215203/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/donkey_kong_jr_1.htm|title=Donkey Kong Jr.|publisher=In The Attic|language=en|accessdate=February 16, 2025}}</ref>}}
|genre=[[Genre#Puzzle games|Puzzle]]
|modes=Single player 
|platforms=[[Game & Watch]]
|input={{input|gaw=1}}
|format={{format|gaw=1}}
|serials=CJ-71 (Table Top)<br>CJ-93 (Panorama Screen)
}}
[[File:TT Donkey Kong Jr.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Table Top box art for ''Donkey Kong Jr.'']]
'''''Donkey Kong Jr.''''' is the a 1983 [[Game & Watch]] adaptation of the [[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|arcade game of the same name]]. Unlike the identically named [[Donkey Kong Jr. (New Wide Screen)|1982 New Wide Screen version]] and ''[[Donkey Kong II]]'', this game is not based on any of the arcade original's levels. ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' was the first game in the Table Top series. It was rereleased months later as part of the Panorama Screen series.

==Gameplay==
[[Donkey Kong Jr.]] has to navigate his way between the [[key]] and [[Donkey Kong]]. From the key, Donkey Kong Jr. has to make his way through some trees by using vines to get to different branches. [[Nitpicker|Bird]]s and [[Snapjaw]]s appear in this section. Afterwards, Donkey Kong Jr. needs to grab the bottoms of umbrellas (which are on the left and descending) and balloons (which are on the right and ascending), being careful not to fall into a pool of water. He must insert the key into the lock on Donkey Kong's chains, but Donkey Kong is waving his chain, and one wrong move can cause the key to fall into the water. Donkey Kong Jr. must go back to the key, and the process resets. Once all the chains are unlocked, Donkey Kong is freed from [[Mario]], and the game resets.
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==Gallery==
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DKJr. Table Top Coleco box.png|Table Top cover art as distributed by [[Coleco]]
DKJr.Tabletopgame.jpg|Table Top version as distributed by Coleco
DKJr. Panorama Screen box.jpg|Panorama Screen cover art
DKJr. G&W Panorama.jpg|Panorama Screen version
G&W Donkey Kong Jr Artwork.png|Artwork of Donkey Kong Jr. (Panorama Screen version)
DK Jr CJ-71 Bell1.gif|Alarm musical notes (Instruction manual)
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==Notes==
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|image1=G&W DKJR Jingle1.oga
|caption1=The game start jingle
|image2=Toccata and Fugue.oga
|caption2=The excerpt of the ''Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565'' on which the jingle is based
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|image1=G&W DKJR Jingle2.oga
|caption1=The jingle when the player has to juggle between balloons and umbrellas
|image2=French cancan.oga
|caption2=The excerpt of "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" on which the jingle is based
|image3=Jingle+Cancan.oga
|caption3=The jingle, slowed down and pitch-shifted to match the song's tempo and pitch, combined with the song itself
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*At the start, the first nine melodic notes of the ''{{wp|Toccata and Fugue in D minor|Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565}}'' by {{wp|Johann Sebastian Bach}} play, except they are raised by a {{wp|major second|whole step}}.
*This game also uses part of "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers," a song created in 1858 by the French composer {{wp|Jacques Offenbach}}, when the player has to juggle between balloons and umbrellas to be able to reach Donkey Kong and free him.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20211027233555/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/donkey_kong_jr_2.htm In the Attic info page for the Table Top version of ''Donkey Kong Jr.''] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20211027215203/http://www.intheattic.co.uk/donkey_kong_jr_1.htm In the Attic info page for the Panorama Screen version of ''Donkey Kong Jr.'', with different controls] (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTlbjDTW3w Coleco's ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' tabletop commercial]
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