

The clever and accurate movement will help him have more lives. However, life may appear randomly on vines. Donkey Kong Jr will be equipped with 3 lives at the start of the game. With the joystick, they can control Donkey Kong Jr to move left, right or jump to catch the various vines scattered in each stage. To continue the journey, players need to complete the task within the time allowed. The system will set a certain time period in each stage and require them to pass that stage on time. In the game, the player controls Donkey Kong Jr through four different stages with increasing difficulty. In the end, having overcome all difficulties along the way, he freed his father and Mario was chased. In order to do that, Donkey Kong Jr has to go through many of the pitfalls and obstacles Mario has arranged. After rescuing Pauline and capturing Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr – his son began the journey to rescue his father from Mario’s confinement in a cave.


However, in the Japanese Version 1, players can complete all stages up to 100 meters, with the true kill screen occurring at 100 meters in level 22.With the success of Donkey Kong, Nintendo continued to release Donkey Kong Jr action game in 1982 with many differences. The 22nd level is known as the kill screen due to a programming error that kills Mario after a few seconds, effectively ending the game. After completing all four stages, the game repeats with increased difficulty. The game ends when all lives are lost.ĭonkey Kong has four single-screen stages, each representing 25 meters of the structure Donkey Kong has climbed (25, 50, 75, and 100 meters). The player starts with three lives and earns an additional life at 7,000 points, adjustable via DIP switches. The player’s goal is to save Pauline while accumulating points by leaping over obstacles, destroying objects with a hammer power-up, collecting items, removing rivets from platforms, and completing each stage within the time limit. Donkey Kong was one of the first arcade games with multiple stages and was considered the most complex arcade game of its time, following games like Phoenix (1980), Gorf (1981), and Scramble (1981). The game set the template for the future of the platform genre. Donkey Kong, released in 1981 by Nintendo and reissued by Atari in 1988, is an arcade platform video game that was the first to feature jumping.
