And to do that, you not only have to rescue your father, but you also have to pick up little cherries and bananas scattered around the screen, which grant you some four hundred bonus points each.īut if you’re just thinking of becoming a high scorer in this game, I’m really sorry to rain on you parade, but it’s pretty unlikely you’d pass the current world record.

Additional lifes can be obtained by reaching certain score, though. A life is lost each time you: a) fall down or b) come into contact with any of the Mario’s obstacles, namely birds and snakes. After that-no, if you were expecting the game ends then, I’m sorry but no-the games starts again at higher difficulty level.ĭepending on the DIP switch settings, you start with 3-6 lifes.

Through stages 1-3, though, Mario always just moves the cage away, and only in the final fourth stage Junior actually gets to rescue his father, who then kicks Mario (what a Jerk, this guy) of the screen, sending him to the appropriate places. Your task in each stage is to climb up while avoiding obstacles Mario is throwing at you, and to get the pink key, that unlocks the cage in which the Donkey Kong’s locked up. The game is split into four vertically oriented stages, with Mario and father Kong resting at the top of the screen, and you, the Junior standing at the bottom. Now, as you can guess, the gameplay has somewhat changed from the original Donkey Kong this time it’s as much jumping and climbing as running and avoiding obstacles. Luckily enough, the big old ape isn’t alone in this one, and his toddler ape son, the Donkey Kong Junior, sets out to rescue him. ROM - MAMEĮnraged by the events of the previous encounter with the Kongs, Mario trapped the big old Donkey Kong into a huge cage and wants to punish him for kidnapping Pauline.

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