Donkey Kong Jr. (Donkey Kong Jr)
About Donkey Kong Jr.
Donkey Kong Jr. (ドンキーコングJR., Donkī Kongu Junia) is a 1982 arcade-style platform video game by Nintendo. It first appeared in arcades, and, over the course of the 1980s, was later released for a variety of platforms, most notably the Nintendo Entertainment System. The second installment in the Donkey Kong arcade series. The game's title is written out as Donkey Kong Junior in the North American arcade version and various ports to non-Nintendo systems. Its eponymous star, Donkey Kong Jr., also called simply Junior or abbreviated as DK Jr., is trying to rescue his father Donkey Kong, who has been imprisoned. Donkey Kong's cage is guarded by Mario, in his only appearance as an antagonist in a Nintendo video game. This game is the sequel to the video game Donkey Kong, which featured Mario as the hero and Junior's father as the villain.
- Release date
- Developer
- Nintendo, Atari, Coleco
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Platforms
- Game Boy Advance Wii Nintendo 3DS Atari 8-bit Atari 2600 NES Atari 7800 Nintendo Switch Wii U
Games similar to Donkey Kong Jr.
All games similar to Donkey Kong Jr.Games in the series
All games in the series-
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
2014
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Donkey Kong Country Returns
2010
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Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast
2007
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Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber
2007
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DK: King of Swing
2005
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Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
2004
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Donkey Konga
2003
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Donkey Kong 64
1999
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Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
1996
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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
1995
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Donkey Kong Country
1994
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Donkey Kong 3
1984
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Donkey Kong
1981
Donkey Kong Jr. creators
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Shigeru Miyamoto
producer
Games: 62
- Kevin Gibson producer Games: 2
- Gunpei Yokoi producer, designer Games: 20
- Hirokazu Tanaka composer, producer Games: 12
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Yoshio Sakamoto
writer, director
Games: 14
- Hiroshi Yamauchi producer, designer Games: 17
- Yukio Kaneoka composer Games: 2
- Masao Yamamoto director Games: 1
- Dan Thompson programmer Games: 1
- Kenji Nishizawa designer Games: 1