If you find all 3 of Pauline’s items in each level, you get to play a mini game for extra 1-ups. … and you never know what you’re going to get with the vs. The normal levels are fun puzzle-platformer stages… It’s hard to really say what kind of game this is because of its wide variety of gameplay, but I’d say at the end of the day it’s a puzzle-platformer with more emphasis on the platformer aspect.

This game is really hard to put down because there’s always some incredibly rewarding surprise waiting around the next corner. Donkey Kong level that is a random grab bag of all sorts of cool ideas, such as a level from Donkey Kong Jr. You go through a cycle of 3 normal adventure levels where the goal is to pick up a big key and put it into an exit door, and every 4th level is a vs. Mario’s moves are… a bit more advanced this time around.Īfter beating the 4th level, Donkey Kong interrupts the ending of the arcade game and captures Pauline again, and the chase continues.Īt least this game doesn’t make you wait forever to get to New Donk City. Mario has some extra movement options this time, so if you know how to do them, you can make a mockery out of these first 4 classic levels: The game starts off with the 4 levels from the original arcade game, but after you’ve completed them, the game keeps going for 97 more levels. This game is a spiritual sequel to the original Donkey Kong arcade game. You’d be doing yourself a great disservice otherwise. If you decide to play this game, please play it on a Super Game Boy to get the definitive experience. The added colors are absolutely gorgeous. To the best of my knowledge, this game has the best Super Game Boy enhancements of any game that was ever released.

Anyways, this game is brilliant, and you should play it. I don’t know if that’s the reason for sure, but that’s my best guess.

This was released in 1994 when Nintendo was cranking out masterpiece after masterpiece, so that’s probably how this wonderful little Game Boy title quietly faded into history. This game was pretty popular when it was first released, but I don’t hear anyone talking about it anymore. A Donkey Kong game as an Obscure Gem? Well, actually, yeah. Before I lose everyone who thinks this game is just a port of the original Donkey Kong arcade game, I want to shout from the top of the Empire State Building to you that it most certainly is not! This game has a ton of unique levels, but the new ones come AFTER you play the already familiar ones, which maybe be what confused people and made this game fall into obscurity.

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