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====''Donkey Kong Jr. Math''==== | ====''Donkey Kong Jr. Math''==== | ||
Donkey Kong Jr. makes another playable appearance in the game ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. Math]]''. In Calculate A and B, His father stands at the top of the stage, holding a sign with a random number placed on it. Donkey Kong Jr. must climb among multiple vines to gather the correct numbers and mathematical signs to create the number on his father's sign. In +- | Donkey Kong Jr. makes another playable appearance in the game ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. Math]]''. In Calculate A and B, His father stands at the top of the stage, holding a sign with a random number placed on it. Donkey Kong Jr. must climb among multiple vines to gather the correct numbers and mathematical signs to create the number on his father's sign. In +-×÷ Exercise, Donkey Kong Jr. has to solve equations by climbing multiple chains to input the digits of the answer. In the instruction booklet, he is dubbed '''Junior (I)'''.<ref name = FuzzyMath/> | ||
[[File:DKJM-Pink Donkey Kong Jr.png|frame|right]] | [[File:DKJM-Pink Donkey Kong Jr.png|frame|right]] | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*During development of ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. was originally slated to appear with a redesign. [[Nintendo]] did not like the redesigning of the character, and ordered the game's developer, [[Rare Ltd.|Rare]], to either retain the character's original appearance or to make the redesign into a new character.<ref>As revealed in ''Retro Gamer'' magazine.</ref> [[Diddy Kong]] was created as a new character to fulfill the role. | *During development of ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'', Donkey Kong Jr. was originally slated to appear with a redesign. [[Nintendo]] did not like the redesigning of the character, and ordered the game's developer, [[Rare Ltd.|Rare]], to either retain the character's original appearance or to make the redesign into a new character.<ref>As revealed in ''Retro Gamer'' magazine.</ref> [[Diddy Kong]] was created as a new character to fulfill the role. | ||
*Oddly, several games in which Donkey Kong Jr. appears contain doppelgängers. Examples of such games include the ''[[Game & Watch#Game & Watch Gallery series|Game & Watch Gallery]]'' series (which seems to depict Donkey Kong Jr. as a species rather than an individual character), ''Donkey Kong Jr. Math'' (which includes a | *Oddly, several games in which Donkey Kong Jr. appears contain doppelgängers. Examples of such games include the ''[[Game & Watch#Game & Watch Gallery series|Game & Watch Gallery]]'' series (which seems to depict Donkey Kong Jr. as a species rather than an individual character), ''Donkey Kong Jr. Math'' (which includes a second Donkey Kong Jr. colored pink), and ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' (which includes many Donkey Kong Jr. lookalikes as audience members in [[GCN Waluigi Stadium|Waluigi Stadium]]). {{media link|BetaMonkeys.jpg|An early design}} for the [[Helper Monkey]]s in ''[[Donkey Kong Jungle Beat]]'' also resembled multiple Donkey Kong Jrs. (particularly his {{media link|MKDD Unused Character Icons.png|prototypical ''Double Dash!!'' model}}), but without his shirt. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||