Donkey Kong Junior
This is the ColecoVision port of the homonymous arcade game
31 December 1983
Donkey Kong Junior is a platform developed by Coleco, released 31 December 1983 on ColecoVision.
What Donkey Kong Junior is
Donkey Kong Junior is a platform game developed by Coleco and released in 1983. It is available on ColecoVision 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 29th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Donkey Kong Junior in 1983.
What it launched against
Donkey Kong Junior launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness and Zoo Keeper.
Released around the same time: Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness, Zoo Keeper.
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When did Donkey Kong Junior come out?
Donkey Kong Junior was released on 31 December 1983 for ColecoVision.
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