Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a Game Boy game which starts out with the premise of being a straight remake of the original Donkey Kong arcade game. Although at first it appears to be just a port, the familiar levels from the…
Donkey Kong is an arcade developed by Nintendo, released 14 June 1994 on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Donkey Kong is
Donkey Kong is an arcade game developed by Nintendo and released in 1994. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The large ape Donkey Kong kidnaps Mario's lady friend Pauline and carries her off to a construction site. In a repeat of the 1981 arcade classic, Mario follows him up to the highest point and makes Donkey Kong fall off the platforms by pulling out the rivets supporting them, causing Donkey Kong to fall a height of 100m, reuniting Mario and Pauline, just like the events that took place 13 years ago. However, Donkey Kong unexpectedly recovers, takes Pauline, and escapes with her into the Big-City. Mario pursues the two.
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 is the 130th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario's Time Machine in 1994. Its critic score of 90 is 13 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Donkey Kong holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 95% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 67 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs.
What it launched against
Donkey Kong launched on 14 June 1994, within three weeks of Jazz Jackrabbit, Disney's The Jungle Book, Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors and Road Rash. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Jazz Jackrabbit, Disney's The Jungle Book, Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Road Rash.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Donkey Kong yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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