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• Platform: NES (VC)
• Genre: Arcade
• Players: 1
• Developer: Nintendo
• Publisher: Nintendo
• The word from N-Philes
• Cost: 500 points
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Donkey Kong Jr.

How a giant ape could have escaped, kidnapped a pretty girl and dragged her to the top of an abandoned infrastructure is a question that perhaps may never be answered. One question we don't want answered is which poor female ape got it on with Donkey Kong and later gave birth to the hero of this game, Donkey Kong Junior. You poor, poor lady-ape.

Interestingly, Nintendo decided to change the theme from man vs. animal to animal vs. man for the sequel to Donkey Kong. After getting his face smashed in with barrels while jumping up a rickety building to save his girlfriend, Mario has taken it upon himself to imprison Donkey Kong, much to the chagrin of DK's own stubby pride and joy. Mario, in some sort of animal abuse fervor, drags DK away from his family, unleashing enemies like Snapjaws (deadly biting ... creatures) and trained murderous attack birds to essentially tear DK Jr. to shreds. Where's the ASPCA when you need it?

What was a great about this game was the fast, challenging platforming that made its predecessor so grand. The whole game consisted of four major stages that took you from vine jumping to springboarding to chain sliding to confronting Mario himself in his ape-abuse hideout. When playing, DK Jr. can move faster by gripping two vines at once but is faster sliding down the vine when gripping only one. Jumping plays a big part in the game as well, but a miscalculated jump will either land you in the water below or in the jaws of said vicious animals.

Almost as popular as the original, Donkey Kong Jr. still lives in the hearts of old-school arcade lovers everywhere, but the game definitely shows its age. Every level is predictable with enemies and fruit (which you use to drop on the heads of unlucky enemies) shows up in the same places every time. Can you handle taking DK Jr. through four level-types over and over with rising difficulty for long periods of time? Then you're an 80's arcade lover and this game is certainly for you.

Legacy...

You can't throw a banana without hitting Donkey Kong Jr. as the pint-sized hero has been ported over to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, ColecoVision, Game Boy Advance (through the E-Reader), Intellivision, the NES and now the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Arcade. The question isn't really whether or not you can find software for many of these platforms – the real question may be whether you have the original systems, which can cost large sums of money on auction sites and from classic system resellers. If you don't have any of these systems, the quickest way to get your monkey (yes I know he's not a monkey!) madness is by handing over the 500 points it takes to download the game to your Nintendo Wii.