Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]
Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]
Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]
Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]
Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]
Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]

Donkey Kong 3 [5 Screw]

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$28.99

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Item Description

Donkey Kong 3 is the strangest entry in Nintendo's original Donkey Kong trilogy, and that is precisely why it is worth playing. Mario sits this one out. In his place comes Stanley the Bugman, a greenhouse keeper armed with a can of bug spray, and Donkey Kong has climbed in from above to stir up a swarm of insects that are after Stanley's flowers.

The trilogy's platforming gives way to a vertical shooter. Donkey Kong hangs from a pair of vines at the top of the screen while Stanley hops between platforms below, pumping spray upward to drive the ape higher and swatting the bees that dive at him and his plants. Push Kong all the way to the top and the round is won; let him climb down to Stanley and it is over. A super spray can that drops from the vines gives you a short burst of extra power, and the constant juggling between pushing Kong back and protecting the flowers gives every round a frantic, tug-of-war feel.

Nintendo R&D1 brought the 1983 arcade game home on the Famicom in 1984, with the NES cartridge following in North America, and this port has been revisited more than any other version of the game, reappearing on the e-Reader and the Virtual Console. Even so, it is the least-known chapter of the trilogy, which gives it real appeal for players who already know the barrel-jumping originals inside out.

The 5-screw label in the title refers to the cartridge shell. Early NES carts were held together with five screws before Nintendo switched to a three-screw design with plastic tabs, so the 5-screw version is the early production variant that completists track down when building a set of first-wave Nintendo releases.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1984
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo R&D1
Players
Single player
About the game

The NES port of Donkey Kong 3 is the most re-released version, being part of the e-Reader ports and of the Virtual Consoles.

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