Donkey Kong Junior
This is the port for Atari home computers (8-bit family) of the arcade game Donkey Kong Junior.
1 March 1984
Donkey Kong Junior is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 1 March 1984 on Atari 8-bit.
What Donkey Kong Junior is
Donkey Kong Junior is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1984. It was published by Atari. It is available on Atari 8-bit only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
After the events of Donkey Kong, Mario has captured Donkey Kong as revenge for kidnapping his lady friend and Donkey Kong Jr. has to save him. However, every time Donkey Kong Jr. gets close to freeing his father, Mario just pushes him further away.
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 Junior is the 34th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Vs. Pinball in 1984.
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When did Donkey Kong Junior come out?
Donkey Kong Junior was released on 1 March 1984 for Atari 8-bit.
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