Donkey Kong Classics
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A Donkey Kong double feature! In DONKEY KONG you'll duck barrel bombs and flaming fireballs as you help Mario save his girlfriend Pauline from the clutches of Donkey…
Donkey Kong Classics is a platform developed by Nintendo R&D2, released 9 September 1988 on Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Donkey Kong Classics is
Donkey Kong Classics is a platform game developed by Nintendo R&D2 and released in 1988. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A Donkey Kong double feature! In DONKEY KONG you'll duck barrel bombs and flaming fireballs as you help Mario save his girlfriend Pauline from the clutches of Donkey Kong. In DONKEY KONG JR., you'll join forces with these madcap monkeys to help Donkey Kong Jr. rescue his father from Mario's prison. Are you ready for laughter? You'd better be. Because this double dose of monkey business will have you rolling in the aisles!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Donkey Kong Classics is the 66th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Super Mario Bros. 2 in 1988.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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