What follows is an exhaustive chase through 101 levels in various locales, including the surrounding city, a jungle and an airplane in mid-flight. Donkey Kong series: You start the game by saving Pauline from a construction site as usual, but unlike in the original, Donkey Kong reawakens after falling from his perch and takes off with her again. The arcade games were ported to various home consoles, including personal computers and Nintendo's own NES.ฤก994's Donkey Kong (often referred to by the production title Donkey Kong '94) for the Game Boy expanded on the formula and inspired the later Mario vs. The lesser-known Donkey Kong 3 has an exterminator named Stanley trying to chase Donkey Kong away from his greenhouse with insect repellent.
in revised arcade releases and certain home ports) inverted the villain/hero roles: Donkey Kong Junior has to free his father from the clutches of zookeeper Mario by climbing vines and grabbing keys. The game's sequel, Donkey Kong Junior (shortened to Donkey Kong Jr. Donkey Kong's mode of attack is a seemingly-endless supply of barrels that Mario must either dodge, jump over or smash with a hammer. The storyline involves the plumber (originally a carpenter) named Mario (originally Jumpman note which was first used in an arcade flyer by Nintendo of America the character was previously nameless in Japanese materials, which is why the development name showed up in earlier references, but "Mario" had mostly overtaken "Jumpman" by the first home conversions) saving his girlfriend Pauline (Originally " Lady " note The name Pauline was first used in the MS-DOS, Apple ][, Coleco Adam, and western NES conversions also, due to initial confusion with the name, it was sometimes translated as the/a "lady" or thought to be nameless until later English references, and was even occasionally believed for a time in Japanese circles to be a Decomposite Character.) from Donkey Kong, in an obvious reference to King Kong. Didn't scroll at all, but involved a lot of jumping and climbing, and one level had moving platforms. While not, as is commonly reported, the very first Platform Game (that honor belongs to Space Panic), it was the very first to feature actual jumping. It was the first game of the Mario franchise. Introduced both Donkey Kong and Mario as characters. The only bad thing about this version of DKJ is that the player receives no points for jumping over enemies on screen 1.Classic 1980s arcade game from Nintendo.
It contains all four of the arcade version screens. This version of DK only contains 3 of the 4 screens and I felt cheated when I played it. If you bought a case of Coca-Colas and learned that it contained only eleven Cokes instead of twelve, would you feel cheated? Yes you would. It's true that the NES Donkey Kong's graphics are a little better than the Atari 400 version but graphics aren't everything. The Atari 400 version has all four screens and the How high can you get intermissions. The Atari 400 version of Donkey Kong kicks the crap out of this version and the NES was supposed to be superior to the Atari 400. But that wasn't as bad as it missing the 4th screen.
It's also missing the How high can you get intermissions. When I bought this game in 1988, I assumed that Donkey Kong had all four of the arcade version screens. This game includes both the original Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong JR.