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Platform Arcade

Donkey Kong Junior

ITDC (International Technology Development Corporation) · Atari Corporation

Nov 1988

Release

Nov 1988

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Inside Donkey Kong Junior

What it is

This is the Atari 7800 port of the homonymous arcade game.

The premise

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.

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