Donkey Kong Jr. (game)

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Donkey Kong Jr., also spelled Donkey Kong Junior in early arcade releases and home ports, is an arcade game starring Donkey Kong Jr. that was later re-released along with other early games in Donkey Kong Classics, Donkey Kong Jr. + Jr. Math Lesson and Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr./Mario Bros., remade into a Game & Watch game, which received a remake on the Nintendo DSi ,and a Mini Classic game and was also later released on the Virtual Console for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. It was also available as a free download via the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program. Donkey Kong Jr. is also a minigame in Game & Watch Galleries 3 and 4. The game was also released on the e-Reader with the only difference being a player had to scan in 5 cards to play it, afterward the player didn't have to scan the cards again unless they scanned in a different game requiring 5 cards. It was the direct sequel to Donkey Kong and it and the similar Donkey Kong II are the only games in the Mario series where Mario (previously known as Jumpman) is the antagonist.

Donkey Kong Jr. never enjoyed the sales or the following that the original Donkey Kong did, but it did well enough to warrant a second sequel, Donkey Kong 3.

Story

After the events of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong has been captured by Mario (Known as Jumpman) as revenge for kidnapping his lady friend and Donkey Kong Jr. has to save him. Donkey Kong Jr. will travel through four stages from the jungle to the big city to get his father back, climbing vines, avoiding enemies and jumping on platforms along the way. However, every time Donkey Kong Jr. gets close to freeing his father, Mario just pushes him further away.

Finally in his hideout, Mario appears to be atop a skyscraper similar to 100m from the last game. Donkey Kong Jr. has to put six keys into their keyholes to free his dad and make the platform they're standing on disappear. Donkey Kong and Mario both fall down and Donkey Kong Jr. catches Donkey Kong but Mario just hits the ground. Donkey Kong Jr. carries his dad off-screen as Mario gets up and runs after them, only to be kicked right back out by Donkey Kong, forcing him to flee. In the NES port, this is altered (due to memory limitations at the time) to Mario falling to his apparent death.

Levels

Characters

Enemies

References in later games

Staff

Main article: List of Donkey Kong Jr. staff

Produced by

Original Music by

  • Yukio Kaneoka

Programming by

Gallery

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Trivia

A screenshot of what appears to be two Marios in the intro.
  • During the intro of the arcade version of Donkey Kong Jr., there were actually two Marios seen carrying Donkey Kong's cage away.
  • This is one of two games where Mario is portrayed as a villain, the other being Donkey Kong Circus, and it earned him the number 100 spot in IGN's Top 100 Videogame Villains.[1]
  • This game was the grand prize on a 1984 episode of Starcade.[2]


References

  1. ^ http://uk.ign.com/videogame-villains/100.html
  2. ^ http://archive.org/details/Starcade-215-Donkey_Kong_Junior

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Donkey Kong Jr.
Characters Donkey Kong Jr. • Donkey Kong • Mario
Enemies Bird • Drop* • Egg • Nitpicker • Snapjaw • Spark
Items Fruit • Key
Objects Chain • Jump Board • Pole • Vine
Rounds Vine Scene • Jump Board Scene • Mario's Hideout • Chain Scene
Other Gallery • Media • Pre-release and unused content • Staff
* Only appears in the Coleco Adam version

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Arcade games
Super Mario franchise Donkey Kong (1981) • Crazy Kong (1981) • Donkey Kong Jr. (1982) • Mario Bros. (1983) • Stroke & Match Golf (1984) • VS. Pinball (1984) • VS. Wrecking Crew (1984) • VS. Super Mario Bros. (1986) • VS. Dr. Mario (1990) • Mario Roulette (1991) • Super Mario Bros. (pinball) (1992) • Super Mario Bros. Mushroom World (1992) • Terebi Denwa: Super Mario World (1992) • Būbū Mario (1993) • Mario Undōkai (1993) • Koopa Taiji (1993) • Super Mario World (1993) • Super Mario Kart: Doki Doki Race (1994) • Mario Kart 64 (slot machine) (1996) • Super Mario Attack (1996) • Super Mario Fushigi no Janjan Land (2003) • Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party (2004) • Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Junior/Mario Bros. (2004) • Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party 2 (2005) • Mario Kart Arcade GP (2005) • Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (2007) • Mario Party Fushigi no Korokoro Catcher (2009) • New Super Mario Bros. Wii Coin World (2011) • Mario Party Kurukuru Carnival (2012) • Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (2013) • Mario Party Fushigi no Korokoro Catcher 2 (2013) • Luigi's Mansion Arcade (2015) • Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Arcade Edition (2016) • Mario Party Challenge World (2016) • Mario Kart Arcade GP VR (2017) • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - Arcade Edition (2020)
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong (1981) • Crazy Kong (1981) • Donkey Kong Jr. (1982) • Donkey Kong 3 (1983) • Donkey Kong (slot machine) (1996) • Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr./Mario Bros. (2004) • Donkey Kong: Jungle Fever (2005) • Donkey Kong: Banana Kingdom (2006)

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Family Computer / Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Mario franchise Donkey Kong (1983) • Mario Bros. (1983) • Pinball (1984) • Golf (1984) • Family BASIC† (1984) • Family BASIC V3† (1985) • Wrecking Crew (1985) • Super Mario Bros. (1985) • Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988) • Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) • Dr. Mario (1990) • NES Open Tournament Golf (1991) • Mario is Missing!* (1993) • Mario's Time Machine* (1994)
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong (1983) • Donkey Kong Jr. (1983) • Donkey Kong Jr. + Jr. Sansū Lesson† (1983) • Donkey Kong Jr. Math (1983) • Donkey Kong 3 (1984) • Donkey Kong Classics* (1988)
Yoshi franchise Yoshi (1991) • Yoshi's Cookie (1992)
Wario franchise Wario's Woods (1994)
Family Computer Disk System Golf (1986) • Super Mario Bros. (1986) • Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels‡ (1986) • I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater‡ (1986) • All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.‡ (1986) • Golf: Japan Course‡ (1987) • Golf: U.S. Course‡ (1987) • Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic‡ (1987) • Famicom Grand Prix: F1 Race‡ (1987) • Donkey Kong^ (1988) • Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally‡ (1988) • Donkey Kong Jr.^ (1988) • Mario Bros. Returns^ (1988) • Wrecking Crew^ (1989) • Pinball^ (1989)
Miscellaneous Nintendo World Championships 1990* (1990) • Nintendo Campus Challenge* (1991)
* NES only
† Famicom only
‡ Disk System only
^ Disk Writer only
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