Donkey Kong Jr. (Table Top)

This article is about the Table Top version. For New Wide Screen version, see Donkey Kong Jr. (New Wide Screen).

Donkey Kong Jr.
Developer	Nintendo Research & Development 1
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Game & Watch
Release date	Game & Watch: April 23, 1983 (Table Top)[?] April 28, 1983 (Table Top) October 7, 1983 (Panorama Screen) October 7, 1983 (Panorama Screen)[?]
Genre	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single player
Format	Game & Watch: Built-in
Input	Game & Watch: Gamepad
Serial code(s)	CJ-71 (Table Top) CJ-93 (Panorama Screen)

Table Top box art for Donkey Kong Jr.

Donkey Kong Jr. is the a 1983 Game & Watch adaptation of the arcade game of the same name. Unlike the identically named 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. Birds and Snapjaws 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.

Gallery

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  Table Top cover art as distributed by Coleco

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  Table Top version as distributed by Coleco

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  Panorama Screen cover art

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  Panorama Screen version

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  Artwork of Donkey Kong Jr. (Panorama Screen version)

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  Alarm musical notes (Panorama Screen version)

Notes

The game start jingle

The excerpt of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 on which the jingle is based

The jingle when the player has to juggle between balloons and umbrellas

The excerpt of "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" on which the jingle is based

The jingle, slowed down and pitch-shifted to match the song's tempo and pitch, combined with the song itself

• At the start, the first nine melodic notes of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach play, except they are raised by a whole step.
• This game also uses part of "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers," a song created in 1858 by the French composer Jacques Offenbach, when the player has to juggle between balloons and umbrellas to be able to reach Donkey Kong and free him.

External links

• In the Attic info page for the Table Top version of Donkey Kong Jr. (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)
• In the Attic info page for the Panorama Screen version of Donkey Kong Jr., with different controls (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine)