Before Mario became super, he was a brave carpenter (or so says one early
promotional flyer) instead of a plumber and had an 800-pound gorilla on his
back. You can shake off that monkey all over again in the rerelease of Donkey
Kong as part of the NES Classics series.
The game looks great on both the Game Boy Advance and the Game Boy Player for
the Nintendo GameCube. As the story goes, this freak-of-nature gorilla kidnaps
the beautiful girl. Mario, being the chivalrous type, runs to the rescue. To
reach damsel in distress, however, Mario must avoid the gorilla's killa posse of
barrels, fireballs and bouncing rivets. Along the way, Mario picks up big points
when he hammers barrels and fireballs and snags the umbrella, purse and hat that
the girl dropped during her abduction.
Once Mario reaches the girl, DK pulls a fast one and takes her away to another
level. Mario doesn't know he's fighting a never-ending battle in the name of
love, but don't feel too sorry for him. Even though he never really gets the
girl in Donkey Kong, he does collect a lot of coins in the other games in which
he appears and should be pretty rich by now.
Two players can take turns competing for the girl, either on the same Game Boy
Advance or with the help of a Game Boy Advance Game Link Cable. Plus, you can
save your high score to memory (you need almost a million points to beat the
world's record, so you better get jumping)
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