The arcade version was a great looking game. Really embodied the whimsy of that era.

0:23 How can you miss the two gorillas from Primal Rage? I bet that's on your "to do" list for a future video too! :D

First ever arcade game that i fell in love with. I was 9 years old, did not have any money to play, but i was standing beside the arcade cab watching others play and dreaming of having this game one day. I loved DKJR, loved the sound effects, and graphics at the time, my dream finally came true with the Atari 2600 version, but oh boy was i in for a major disappointment when i first stuck that cartridge into my 2600. The game looked and sounded like absolute shit. A few years later i got the Coleco portable mini arcade, but it was far from the original game. And i had to wait 20 more years or so for MAME to come up with the original version. Its now running in my upright MAME cabinet and i'm still playing it on a regular basis today. As usual, Great vid ! Cheers !

Did anyone else get an ad right after he introduces the Retro commercial? If you did that on purpose, that was hilarious.

When I see a notification for PatmanQC come up I get all excited lol. It never fails to deliver.

Great classic game! All these Nintendo digital rereleases of Donkey Kong Jr. were emulated from the NES port, while the Switch is the only console that has the original arcade version.

I scored a Donkey Kong Jr Arcade cabinet at an auction for $250 last year. Even though the cabinet is a Pioneer Balloon cabinet, it has an original Donkey Kong Jr bezel, marquee and button panel (although the panel is full of bolts...) Even more annoyance when the monitor tanked a few days later, but at least I'm closer to finding a replacement monitor now at a reasonable price instead of people trying to sell the broken down full cabinet online for $2000+.

Another excellent video. Fun and informative with a touch of humor. Keep up the great work!

I remember this game well. When my mother was in med school, there was a DK jr. machine in the student union. The coin door was opened up and you could hit some button or pull on some wire and get endless games. Funny the stuff one remembers.

Thanks again for another great video. Just want to say any fans who haven't checked out one of Patman's real life bowling videos really should, he's really working hard to bring us these videos, the bowling videos help show just how hard he works and are amazing displays of skill and tenacity. Looking forward to seeing some new bowling videos and more classic arcade content. Many thanks.

1:29 Ronnie the Limo Driver sighting! T-O-P-L-E-S-S

Patman QC, always here to make a work day better with a new video!!!

Love this channel! Very informative video game history! ❤

Awesome video, as always. Also, HUGE bonus points for mentioning Fozzy!!!

Worth noting... whilst Nintendo designed Donkey Kong, they outsourced the programming to a company called Ikegami Tsushinki who also had a contract to manufacture the game boards. When Donkey Kong was successful, Nintendo essentially pirated their own game and manufactured extra units themselves to meet demand! This resulted in a court case over breach of contract... and to tie into this video, a secondary claim in the case was that Nintendo reverse engineered and reused code from Donkey Kong in DKjr. It was finally settled out of court in 1990.

Big fan of your channel. Keep up the good work

As usual just wonderful. You really make the Double Doppler Accu-Weather forecast with Meteorologist Neil Kastor proud!

Just prepared some nice coffee for this....thanks Mr. Patman!

That pie factory level! That's awesome! Great video again!

Your reviews have consistently been spot on excellent but I have to say, your humor improves every upload. Anyway, love the vid as always Patman. Thanks for providing the great content👍

I had the Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr duel cart for the NES. I played them all the time. I once heard that Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong Country was a grown up Donkey Kong Jr, and the old gorilla was the original Donkey Kong. How accurate that actually was I can't say. Has anyone else heard that?

Had to rewatch that intro bit because it was so funny. Another great vid.

I owned the tabletop unit shown at 7:26. Probably the most time I've spent on a non-video electronic game. Still pretty amazed that a game based on predefined images that light up could have such good gameplay. I remember seeing DKJr. on 2600 for the first time, and marveling at how it had the same exact bizarre behavior where Donkey Kong himself could only move based on whether the character the player controls has its sprite flipped. Even back then as a kid, I figured that must mean they literally couldn't spare one more bit of RAM on the 2600 to differentiate the two. As for Mario, Miyamoto intended at first to name him Mr. Video, but decided against it. While the character's name was in limbo, and before the famous episode with Mario Segale that would result in the character getting his name, Mario had no name, but the folks in charge of the English side of things dubbed him Jumpman.

Oh man, I remember playing this arcade classic out in the wild back in the day... I also fondly remember playing this on my friend's Coleco Vision! I may have to get a copy of the NES version. Thanks for bringing back such great memories *PatmanQC*

Awesome video. Very informative and well researched :)

My dads bar had a sit down table version of this game. I'd eat grilled cheese and drink Roy Rodgers while I played it over and over again.

Always loved the sound effects and music. Played the hell out of the nes version. My favourite port.

THIS IS AWESOME!! I am a HUGE fan of ALL things Donkey Kong. Nintendo fan in general but the Kong's world is by far my favorite corner of their universe. Do you realize how incredibly rare good Donkey Kong videos are?!?!

Donkey Kong Jr. is one of my favorite arcade games of all time. Thanks for the history!

I've played the version of DK Jr where the key/chain level was the final stage when I was older, but when I was a kid, the machines I played had Mario's hideout as the proverbial final stage. It went: vine level, key level, vine level, nitpicker level, key level, THEN the hideout, and then it starts over. It also runs that same way on the version I'm running on my Super Retrocade. I will have to look into that to see why that is. Great video!

My dad bought us donkey Kong junior, ms pac man, centipede , and dome hockey arcade games in 1984 after my great grandma passed away.. he made her room into a play/ game room for us..many many hours between me and my sis.. I never played the console versions until dkj came out on switch and brought back all of the memories.. I’m still really good at it

Oh yeah. The Donkey Kong Jr. Cartoon series. They just basically put Scrappy-Doo in a monkey suit.

Every now and then, youtube suggest me a video and I be like, holy bananas, what a gem. This video is one of those rare gems!

The 2020 internet award for most well placed use of the words farts and queefs goes to. "drum roll" Patmanqc. Patmanqc couldnt be with us this evening Receiving the award for Patman is bugger from revenge of the nerds

How about an episode covering the 70's, and late 60's, electromechanical arcade games? I used to LOVE those games as a kid. They really were technical marvels when you looked underneath the hood. Each game had some kind of unique mechanic and technical wizardry that made the games look amazing to the player. I have fond memories of playing Chicago Coin's Speedway, and all the cool gun and missile launch target shooter games, and I have this fond memory of playing some game where you controlled a miniature model of a motorcycle, trying to avoid other motorcycles (That one was neat. The road was on a roller like a treadmill and it rolled under the bikes which were all held in place on the road by strong magnets. It really gave the impression that these toy motorcycles were racing.). I loved so many of these games when I was a kid. They looked and sounded so cool. I found the fact that many of them acually used an 8-track tape for their music, and sound effects back then and found just that alone to be really interesting. I almost wish that I had copies of these tapes just to listen to them.

I played the Coleco port back in the 80's a TON! Thanks PAtman!

"smooth like buttah!" lol

Love the STERN reference and your videos!

There was also the NES Game: Donkey Kong Junior Math, which allowed you to race another player at solving basic math problems using Donkey Kong Junior controls.

It's always a pleasure to see a new one of your videos. You've made a decision about how to tell the stories and you commit to it. I've got to wonder if making "Donkey Kong Jr." instead of "Donkey Kong II" was the best choice for Nintendo in terms of marketing. The game is a strong follow-up to the original mechanically with very similar themes in the gameplay. But there's something about using the term "Junior" that makes the game sound like "Donkey Kong Lite". The focus on a different character also feels off. If you take the game and sprite-swap Junior for Mario and change the other chrome accordingly without changing anything else, is it a more popular game? Alternatively, Nintendo could have just called the game "Donkey Kong II" and kept everything else the same as Jr. Still, it was a better marketing move than Donkey Kong 3. It's a weird shooter with a Donkey Kong theme oddly tacked on and a random new character as a hero. While Jr. feels like a real 2, 3 is out there. Whether or not you think it is a good game, it was never going to make sense as a Donkey Kong sequel.

Another awesome episode! I was never very good at this game in the arcade but I came to love it when I played it at home. Believe it or not, I played tons of this game on my 2600 but when I got the 7800, that's the version I played most.

I'm really surprised that you didn't do a video about Donkey Kong. I looked on your channel and couldn't find a video on it. My big experience with Donkey Kong was playing it on my Commodore 64 growing up. It was pretty faithful to the arcade, except being a little slower. It also had all 4 levels in it.

“Monkey Muscle!” The official battlecry of donkey Kong junior. All on Saturday Supercade.

I remember having the Game & Watch version of this game back in the day, which is where I first gained attention to this game. That end sequence where Donkey Kong Sr kicked Mario off the screen must have been the moment when Mario began to re-evaluate his career choice and return to be a good guy. Either that, or it was Wario wearing Mario's spare overalls.

After the events of this game: Mario’s life went downhill to the point where his girlfriend dumped him and got fired from his carpenter career for his shady get-rich-quick schemes that strongly opposes animal rights by ape-stealing and ape-trading Kongs, then his minimum-wage brother Luigi had to look out for Mario by giving him his job as a co-working plumber. Then his life turned for the better after saving New Donk City from the monstrous creatures in the sewers.

Thanks for this i couldn't get enough of this game when i was a kid simpler times

Great review. Ive lived this game ever since I was a kid. BTW, you really need to try the Pandora Arcade Emulator. 1200+ old school games in their original form. It's awesome.

Brilliant as ever, thanks for this. Im off to the switch store :D

Nice documentary Patman! I currently enjoy the Atari VCS/2600 port. Sure it's nowhere near arcade perfect, but the gameplay is mostly there.

I was waiting for you to mention how the original cabinet screen had a vertically oriented monitor, whereas the home adaptations were horizontal. That led to all kinds of strange squished game elements that didn't appear in the original game. The one I remember the best is on the NES version, level 1. The platform with the key is a "step" rather than one platform, as it was in the original. now that we can play on emulators and shape the screen however we want, we can have a true representation with the original aspect ratio. But back in the day, home conversions had to fill up the whole screen which led to some strange choices, indeed.

It's so cool that people are still making Commodore 64 games after all these years. It's a testament to how much people loved the system.

When I was 9 my friends & I got wind that there was a new Donkey Kong 2 (It was DK Jr.) at the local arcade. It was an event for us to ride our bikes there because it was at a very busy intersection & we had to cross both streets. There was a teenager playing it & he was stuck on the springboard screen. I watched closely what he was doing & put my quarters on the marquee. When my turn came I was surprised to be starting on the vines screen that I hadn't seen & I didn't even get Jr. to the top.

PatmanQC did you just reference Fozzy as in Chris Jericho? The more I listen to you PatmanQC the more I am convinced you’re a good bloke!!

This was my favorite sequel game at the time because it was NOTHING like the original like most swquel games at the time. also that was Luigi at the beginning of the game and Donkey Kong Junior REMIX has him in the green outfit I had this game for the Atari 400 and it was great

Oh my god. That Intellivision music. I still have my copy of DKJ on the Coleco. Complete with A-Team stickers on it.

The character only has one re-appearance in a Mario game I can remember. _Super Mario Kart_. Blows my mind to think about!

The first minute of this video has me in stitches.

First time I played a version of this game was on the gameboy color game called game & watch gallery 3. It included this game (both modern & classic versions) on normal & hard difficulty

Love your video donkey Kong is my new favorite old school game donkey Kong is awesome 😎 either way 👍💯

Hey! Great job on another history video!! I wanted to know--the Donkey Kong fanart at 0:35 --do you know who created the illustration?? It's awesome!! I'd love to know who made it!! Again--great video!

I had heard about the popeye connection but that visual really helped clear it up! I grew up playing the 7800 version and the sound never bothered me and it was nostalgic to hear it again. I will say the level with the electric shocks going back and forth really triggered some repressed gamer rage 😂 like for real! I had completely forgotten about that part!

A very funny video! - and interesting. I've never really played Donkey Kong or DK Jr - I think the closest I've played to them would be Congo Bongo / Tip Top by sega.

Great video, thank you! I laughed at Ron Jeremy's pic 😂 A real classic arcade game, the atari conversion is very lame 😂 we used to trade nes games with my cousin back then, i remember playing this game a lot of times. Cheers from Guatemala 🇬🇹

I play the nes version when I was a kid and now I will play the arcade version. 😀👍🎮

Where in the world did you find that pic of Ron Jeremy dressed as Mario in the aptly named adult film "Super Hornio Bros.?"

I was six years old when I first played this. I had a bad sense of betrayal playing this because Mario was the bad guy, yet he the good guy in the first. These days, I love it.

Well now, a Ronnie Mund drop...so "Let's GetThe Party Started!!!

Giving a shout out to DKJR in a blue cab. Played it at the Omni skating rink. Instant classic. Own an original machine with the Remix installed

I used to love this game. I had a port for the Acorn Electron. I'm sure there must have been a copyright issue of some kind because the bad guy who kidnapped Donkey Kong was called Boris & clearly did not look like Mario.More recently I came across a special port of the original called Donkey Kong 2 for MAME which had 4 brand new, incredibly difficult levels (so had 8 levels in total). I think you flashed a quick image of it up at the beginning.

You missed the glitch in colleco vision version that allowed jr to float back and forth in mid air if you timed jump from springboard right with the platform that floats back and forth.

Well we can say for sure that in japan jumpman was eventually called mario in DK jr and that’s when mario is actually became mario as we do today because in 1981 he was still called jumpman.

Ronnie the limo driver reference, You are the man.

This game was friggin relentless in the arcade. I couldn't and still can't get past the second board

Scoresman is all about HAVING FUN, DAMMIT

I can't remember ever seeing this anywhere in the U.K. It looks like fun. What's ironic, is that nintendo did go on to make an arcade version of popeye, and in the same year as this. Not sure what happened, but at least Nintendo got two great arcade games out of the proposition. Interestingly, the game hunchback 2 on the C64 looks like it was based on the gameplay mechanics of some of the levels.

Rumor has it that Junior is now the current continuity DK and Cranky Kong is the original DK.

Donkey Kong Jr. Remix has Luigi in his correct color overalls

We're definitely in the 2600 era of "Why even bother?" ports of arcade games by this point

Of course, come the Game Boy "Donkey Kong" game, Donkey Kong Junior aids Papa DK in kidnapping Pauline (who now sports brown hair to tell her apart from a blonde Princess Peach Toadstool). So part of that game involves caging up Junior before taking on a giant DK in the final round. According to Rare's Greg Mayles (per Wikipedia), during "Donkey Kong Country." Cranky Kong is the original Donkey Kong, DK Junior got married, and the current Donkey Kong is Junior's son. The new DK still has a thing for Pauline like Gramps did, and in "Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis," he kidnaps Pauline (and does it in the follow up game, "Mini-Land Mayhem").

I played it in the arcades; and I believe I had the Game & Watch version of it.

Wow, the 64 looks amazing!

Can't talk about Donkey Kong Jr. Without a Billy Mitchell photo 👌

2:27 Which they finally got in 1982.

I was born in 83 and was originally introduced to this classic by that awesome NES split cart with both Donkey Kong & Donkey Kong Jr. I loved DK jr. but was always disappointed by only having a few levels. Can’t someone make new levels?

The average pregnancy length for Apes is 257 days which is roughly 8.449 moths, so almost 9 full months.

I like your videos, but you devote a lot of time to home system ports. I am a child of the coin-op age, and would love to see somewhat more detailed histories of the original games. I had a Vectrex, which was awesome, but don't get me started on their port of Star Castle.

Nice video . Keep it up 👍 i had a hard time not to spill my food when you compare it to justin bieber’s voice

A Ronnie Mund reference? Can I give you 10 thumbs ups? And I don’t mean pegging.

I’m convinced of the rumor that Coleco deliberately made the 2600 conversion look and sound terrible to contrast with the Colecovision version.

Love the Ronald Munt reference 😂

So there must be some mint radarscope marquees and furniture in storage somewhere

Nice Ronnie the Limo Driver reference!

7:31 DK Jr. doesn’t have his vest on

great game. loved me some DK Jr cereal back in 80s.

I made the mistake of getting the 2600 version (red label). It gets fast really quickly, so I would lose it all on that conveyor stage.

All cutscenes were taken out in the NES version

The NES port doesn’t play identically to the arcade version! The NES version is much more responsive - DK Jr will perform actions as quickly as you can input them on your controller. The arcade version will throttle you if you try to enter multiple inputs in a short period of time, such as trying to quickly switch from one vine to the next. You have to play much more deliberately, because tight situations are much harder to get out of. It’s not necessarily a bad thing though - I actually find the arcade version more fun because of it! I haven’t seen many people mention this gameplay difference, which surprises me - I think it makes a pretty big difference!

The original donkey kong grew up into crankey kong in the dk country series,& jr. became the new dk.this is referenced in the dk country snes manual

Check this one. There are 2 Donkey Kong (as a character), the original, and the Donkey with a tie. They are not the same. Donkey Kong (no tie) is the father or Donkey Kong Jr. According to Rare, this Donkey Kong (no tie) is Cracky Kong (the old Kong), which is the grandfather of Diddy Kong. -> So Donkey Kong Jr is the father of Donkey Kong (with tie).

7:41 I think if had actually seen that cartoon I would have liked it