Donkey Kong Jr: The Mirror of Mario -- Designing For Donkey Kong December
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2022
- Donkey Kong Jr. is a title that's often overlooked in the grand scheme of Donkey Kong's history; it's a cute little curiosity, but not that much more. However, the arcade classic did SO much legwork in not just establishing the tone and character of the Donkey Kong series, but providing a contrast that would help springboard the Mario series into far greater prominence and popularity.
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If I had a nickle for every RUclipsr in my top 10 who made a popular series of punchout videos and has a slight obsession with Donkey Kong I would have 2 nickles bizzare that that happened twice
If I had a Dollar for everytime people say Cranky is DK Jr's son, and ignoring that DK '94 retconned that notion with Game Boy Donkey Kong (which is actually the Debut appearance of Modern DK, who wears a necktie), I'd be a millionare.
if i had a nickle every time i did a poo i would have 11098 nickles
@@robbiewalker2831 Donkey Kong '94 couldn't have retconned anything about Cranky Kong, it was released before Cranky's first appearance.
Doofensmirtz.
Maybe when Mario fell on his head, he got amnesia and become the Mario we know today
I still believe that the Mario of this game is different from the one we have now, especially considering the Donkey Kong in this game becomes Cranky Kong in the future, if the Mario in Donkey Kong WAS the same, he'd be WAY older by now.
@@DeltaBlazin consider the fact that apes age faster than humans
No wonder I love both series equally. Both continue to inspire each other in various ways.
Donkey Kong brought forth DKJr.
DKJr. brought both DKC and Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario 64 inspired DKC3 to put in an N64 to further advertise the game as well as inspire DK64 later on (with the help of Banjo- Kazooie)
Super Mario Kart brought back DKJr
Mario Kart 64 inspired Diddy Kong Racing and further brought us Banjo- Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day.
The list goes on to the point where Super Mario Bros the movie has already paved the way to lead to the early development of Donkey Kong the movie!
I cant wait to watch both films and I'm eager to see what our heroic twins and stubborn apes have in store in the future of games.
Game Boy Donkey Kong also brought back DK Jr, while introducing Modern DK (the Kong with the Necktie), while Mario vs. Donkey Kong was the spiritual sequel that Game Boy game, even though the future MvsDK Games got rid of the original formula, despite also reintroducing Pauline, who appeared in the Game Boy DK game.
1:38 made me flashback to the Blue Lobster meme
Jokes aside, wonderful video essay analyzing DK Jr.! Can’t wait to see what’s next for DKD
1:42 Hold up. That's music from the goddawful SNES port of Space Ace. You don't get to just drop that into a video unannounced, you magnificent son of a gun.
Sometimes I like dropping things in just to see if someone will recognize it.
I am so, so pleased it paid off this time.
Awesome! I still have an original Atari Donkey Kong Jr. cartridge!
Something also to note is that this game _might_ be Luigi’s first appearance in its most basic form. During the intro, where Mario is seen taking DK off-screen in a cage, there’s… another Mario? It’s clearly not Luigi as we know him today since he’s not wearing any green, but to be fair, both brothers (Luigi especially) wore many overalls with different color combinations in the early 80s, so it’s not unlikely.
Of course, that wasn’t Nintendo’s plan at the time; they just used Mario’s sprite to represent another human to save space. But perhaps it influenced them to give this nameless clone an identity of his own?
You should really do something for donkey Kong ‘94
Imagine an alternate universe where Donkey Kong Jr (or Donkey Kong) became the mascot of Nintendo instead of Mario.
I know this is a continuity take that no one else has, but if Cranky is canonically the DK of classic Donkey Kong fame, I argue Jumpman should be Mario and Luigi's *dad* just the same. Yeah, it makes a few things strange, like the Pauline situation, but it salvages Mario Mario from being a whip-cracking animal abuser. ...And also a carpenter. Plus it better frames the 1983 Mario Bros. game as a sequel in the same way, featuring the brothers as opposed to their old man. Hell, it even works with Jumpman's color pallatte being a reverse of Mario's (red overalls/blue shirt vs blue overalls/red shirt)
The bigger hiccup with that isn't even Pauline, it's the 94 Game Boy game, which still has the original DK, but very clearly has the modern Mario design. He's got blue overalls and a red shirt all over the artwork and everything.
@@NiGHTSnoob That game could be the "last hurra" of DK Sr. The story could be that Sr. in his later years could have wanted revenge from Jumpman, but age time works different when traveling through the pipes, so when he arrives he finds Jumpman and The Lady's son, Mario and his girlfriend Pauline. Thus Donkey Kong 94 begins.
That game ends with Mario, Pauline and the Kong's in amicable terms. That's why Jr. (Modern DK) is invited to Super Mario Kart.
You just have to think that DK Sr. is older (and Crankier) than he looks like and Jr. helps his Papa because he thinks he is right. And DK Sr. would have reasons even to kidnap The Lady in the original game if we take Donkey Kong Circus for the Game and Watch into account.
Eventually Jr takes on the title of his father as the protector of DK Island.
(And we can ignore Mario vs. Donkey Kong for the Game Boy Advance, because it ruins DK personality)
Cranky being the original DK is already enough of an illogical canon. No need to drag Mario and Pauline into this as well, specially when it's always been fully established that both Jumpman and Lady are Mario and Pauline, respectively. Besides Mario had the colors on his outfit reversed in the original Super Mario Bros, so no.
Jumpman is explicitly the Mario we still follow today. The idea that they’re father and son is, quite frankly, nonsense.
Kongs just age faster than humans. Tiny Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. make that obvious.
@@BlueLightning09 Jumpman is Mario, Lady is Pauline.
Mario vs. Donkey Kong can’t and shouldn’t be ignored - especially since it’s perfectly within Donkey Kong’s personality.
This is really nice video. 👍 I really haven't noticed just how much DK Jr. has inspired the DK series as a whole. Now I see its significance much more now. Also, I subscribe to the headcanon that DK Jr. is young current DK, and that's why you don't see the Jr. iteration anymore. Still though, I do wish they reference it more besides a couple of cameos here and there.
For starters, I would LOVE to have Donkey Kong Jr. in Smash Bros. as a dual representative of the DK series and retro games in general like Game & Watch, R.O.B. and Duck Hunt. And not just as an echo fighter of DK, with his own moveset using several moves inspired by his first game, and maybe from other games he's in too, like Super Mario Kart and Mario Tennis. Or just give him some brand new moves too. It is Smash Bros., after all.
I still believe that the Mario of this game is different from the one we have now, especially considering the Donkey Kong in this game becomes Cranky Kong in the future, if the Mario in Donkey Kong WAS the same, he'd be WAY older by now.
Donkey Kong December, Donkey Kong December
I always did like DK Junior better than Donkey Kong.
The game that shows foul Mario's true villainous roots
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It’s my favorite arcade game
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I saw donkey kong December and I clicked
I love this!
This is why I always wished Donkey Kong Jr. was the second player character in Donkey Kong Country instead of having a new character shoehorned into the series out of nowhere.
Jr was one of the first Nintendo and video game icons and the fist playable Kong, as well as a major part in the early days of both Mario and DK. His game definitely helped pave the way for the Donkey Kong series to grow and even Nintendo as a video game company. Shame how the little guy fell so much into obscurity since then and is barely given any credit, even from the big N itself.
that was the original plan, but Rare redesigned Jr. too much and nintendo didn't like it, so that design was renamed into diddy
@@Saetta06 I always laugh whenever people assume I don’t know that already.
Have we seen DK and DK Jr. in the same place before? (and I'm not talking about Cranky Kong...)
...wait.
Donkey Kong Jr...that means he has the same name as his father.
Donkey Kong became Cranky Kong. So, going my Miles "Tails" Prower naming conventions, we can call the original DK Donkey "Cranky" Kong.
And Donkey Kong Jr. is aka. "Donkey Kong", since we can just leave off the Jr.
DK Jr. = "Donkey Kong" (the one with the SSB character) confirmed!!
(and we see Mario and Baby Mario in the same game anyways, so...theory confirmed!)
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Something fascinating I realized about Donkey Kong Jr. only recently:
For the longest time I was under the assumption that DKJr took place immediately after the events of the original Donkey Kong. Jumpman just managed to get his girlfriend back and the kidnapping ape was put behind bars both because he's a dangerous animal and a criminal. So Junior decides to take it upon himself to travel to wherever he's being held and set him loose again. Makes sense, right? Mario's not so much a villain in this situation as he is trying to stop the events of the previous game from repeating itself.
HOWEVER if you actually pay attention to the level aesthetics in DKJr, the environments tell a different story. The game actually starts out in a jungle setting with the first two stages, and the progresses INTO the city. This means that after the events of the first game, DK must have been released back into the jungle, and Jumpman is actually going out of his way to travel into the jungle and capture the beast. He's not just a defender who happens to looks like an atagonist when seen from Junior's perspective; he is actually a villainous poacher dragging the daddy ape out of his own home for some nefarious sideshow.
TLDR: Mario's not just misunderstood here, he's actively being a dick.
More like Super Rude Bros amirite
Nah. It’s a sequel. Mario is just trying to stop the events of the previous game from happening again.
From the manual:
“A continuation of the famous Donkey Kong story. Mario saved the beautiful girl from Donkey Kong. And now Mario has chained Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong Junior braves snapjaws, sparks and birds, throwing the key which will open Donkey Kong's locks, up to where his papa is held prisoner. Junior opens the four locks holding Donkey Kong one at a time. Operate Junior's movements to save Donkey Kong.”
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@@seandwalsh3 I think you misunderstand what I was saying. I wasn't saying that this is not a sequel. It definitely occurs after the events of the first game. But the fact that it starts out in the jungle implies that DK was returned to his jungle home in between the two games, and that Mario is actively kidnapping him out of his own home. As opposed to DK simply having been entirely in captivity since the end of the first game.
@@Drshnaps The Jungle is just outside of New Donk City, as seen in Donkey Kong (Game Boy). Mario wasn’t kidnapping him from his home, he was taking him from the outskirts of the Metro Kingdom directly after what happened in the first game, which is morally just after what Donkey Kong had done.
Bro went Ted Kaczinsky mode 4:51
The forgotten one.
So, Designing For, what do you think of Game Theory's relationship with this game? Do you think they slander this game, or are you okay with just laughing at MatPat's fanfiction? Or, do you have a different opinion from the majority of people who critique Game Theory?
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My guy, how hard are you working right now? You've been releasing so many videos in such a small amount of time! First off, good job, but secondly, go take a break. We can't have Designing For burning out!
Every video for DK December, sans a few here and there, have been finished well in advance. Pyrrs been taking a well deserved break after getting everything cracked out for us to finish up. Please enjoy the work we've put out and will put out!
@@AuthorMx Yeah, I know, but the fact that he worked on *all* of these _while_ putting out consistent content is incredible.
"Stomping turts" makes me uncomfortable and i can't explain why.
The Mirror Or Mario, huh?
I have a friend who covers the lore of the Marioverse (Spoiler Goblin), and since he goes with remakes over originals, he determined DKJr takes place directly BEFORE DK94
We really just let Mario keep doing things to animals after this huh
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