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Title: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: USSEnterprise on January 03, 2007, 03:17:38 pm
I have a chance at picking up a mostly working Nintendo Donkey Kong Jr machine for a pretty low price. I always enjoyed Donkey Kong, never played Junior, though. How does it compare? Additionally, the machine has a display problem. Owner says it works intermittently, and the monitor looses sync. How difficult a repair would it be?
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: shardian on January 03, 2007, 03:22:30 pm
I've always liked DK Jr. a little better. In Jr. you climb on vines to try and rescue DK Sr. from his cage that little bastard Mario has him locked in.  ;D
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: USSEnterprise on January 03, 2007, 03:25:25 pm
 :laugh2:
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: davieboynj on January 03, 2007, 03:32:24 pm
It's kinda like the godfather...  good, good, BAD!
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: RayB on January 03, 2007, 06:25:39 pm
Owner says it works intermittently, and the monitor looses sync. How difficult a repair would it be?

Cap kit and/or reflowing some solder joints should fix that.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: fatfingers on January 04, 2007, 07:47:14 am
I've always liked DK Jr. a little better. In Jr. you climb on vines to try and rescue DK Sr. from his cage that little bastard Mario has him locked in.  ;D

I also think Jr. is a much better game.  I still like the original, but I play Jr. way more often.

Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: Hurray Banana on January 04, 2007, 01:52:35 pm
DK Jr has a bit more variety to the levels. I prefer it over DK
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: leapinlew on January 04, 2007, 01:55:43 pm
I like the colors better on Jr. as well. I even like DK3 more than the original.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: USSEnterprise on January 04, 2007, 03:08:44 pm
I'm bouncing between this and two pins, both similarly priced to the Donkey Kong Jr, a Gottlieb Duotron, and a Stern Stars. I really am leaning in the direction of the Jr. Its close to where I live, in good condition, and cheap. Plus, if I don't like it, I could always concert the cab to original Donkey Kong, or another Nintendo game.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: saint on January 04, 2007, 05:15:44 pm
Or, you get the DK-Jr, and put the Double-DK kit on it, and have DK and DK-Jr in the same cab. That's what I have :)
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: USSEnterprise on January 04, 2007, 05:26:43 pm
Or, you get the DK-Jr, and put the Double-DK kit on it, and have DK and DK-Jr in the same cab. That's what I have :)
I've been looking into that. Where do you get the boards for that, or is it just a matter of changing a few ROMS?
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: saint on January 04, 2007, 10:27:40 pm
http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?action=url&page=prod/ddk/ddk.html

$175 :)
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: arcadefever on January 05, 2007, 12:56:18 am
i have dk3 and i love the game  :D ...
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: Glaine on January 05, 2007, 04:30:31 pm
Aye, fever's dk3 looks purty hot. I still like dk2 best of the DKs though. How is it that you haven't played DK2 before though, Enterprise? If you boot it up in mame I bet you'll be sold on getting it.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: USSEnterprise on January 05, 2007, 04:38:15 pm
I just never really liked any sequel games, other than Ms. PacMan of course. I didn't really think I'd like DKJr. I'll give it a shot in MAME now.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: spriggy on January 09, 2007, 05:56:15 am
They're all great.  But there's nothing like the original!! imo  Double DK kit 4 sure!
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: FrizzleFried on January 11, 2007, 01:00:40 pm
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It's kinda like the godfather...  good, good, BAD!

Are you trying to insinuate that DK3 sucks?  Naw!  DK3 rocks!  Hell..all 3 DK's rock!  DK1 is my favorite as it brings me back to when I was like 8 or 9 and spent so much dough in ACE HARDWARE trying to master DK...but then I remember how much money I spent at Stu's Liquor trying to master the super jump in DK JR....

DK3 I played once in a while when I was a kid,  but really have gotten to enjoy via MAME...I am up to 241,000 on DK3,  and I just can't get that elusive 100,000 with DK (all 5 of my highscores are in the 90K range).

EDIT: Woo Hoo!  I just installed 2 brand new ball-top supers from Tornado Terry...and my FIRST GAME (even in 8 way mode) I got 100,700 points in DK...nice...a good joystick makes a HUGE difference.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: Kremmit on January 11, 2007, 09:13:14 pm
Aye, fever's dk3 looks purty hot. I still like dk2 best of the DKs though. How is it that you haven't played DK2 before though, Enterprise? If you boot it up in mame I bet you'll be sold on getting it.

Dk Jr. is not DK2.  This is:

http://www.jeffsromhack.com/products/d2k.htm

..and I'd take DJ Jr. over original DK any day.  A DK Jr. coctail was my first game!
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: FrizzleFried on January 12, 2007, 02:55:48 pm
I assume D2K won't be emulated anytime soon...
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: ChadTower on January 12, 2007, 03:09:28 pm
Dk Jr. is not DK2.  This is:

http://www.jeffsromhack.com/products/d2k.htm

That says D2K, not DK2, since it seems to matter.
Title: Re: Donkey Kong vs Donkey Kong Jr
Post by: FrizzleFried on January 12, 2007, 03:28:09 pm
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That says D2K, not DK2, since it seems to matter.

D0h!

 ;D