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Donkey Kong Jr. Math NES is Nintendo’s 1985 edutainment game for 1 or 2 players. Junior climbs vines to collect numbers and symbols and practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You get the loose cartridge only, with no box or manual. Orders ship within 2 business days.
| Platform | NES |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Released | 1988 |
| Condition | Loose Cartridge |
| Availability | In stock |
Donkey Kong Jr. Math NES is Nintendo's math learning game built on the Donkey Kong Jr. arcade game. Players climb vines and collect numbers to solve sums. This listing is the loose cartridge only, with no box or manual.
Nintendo Research and Development 2 made the game, and Nintendo published it. It came out in North America on October 18, 1985. It is an edutainment game with platform gameplay, for one or two players.
The game is a spin-off of the 1982 arcade game Donkey Kong Jr. It reuses that game's engine, graphics and climbing action. Instead of rescuing his father, Junior grabs digits and math symbols that hang from vines and chains.
There are three modes: Calculate A, Calculate B and the +-x/ Exercise. In the Calculate modes, players collect numbers and symbols to reach a target number. In the Exercise mode, players solve set math problems. The four symbols cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Donkey Kong Jr. Math is the only game released in North America's NES Education Series. Nintendo planned three games for the series. It sold poorly and drew weak reviews, and it holds a 32% aggregate score on GameRankings. Nintendo of America's former sales chief, Bruce Lowry, later named it the worst game the company ever sold.
Collectors track two shell versions of the Donkey Kong Jr. Math cartridge: an early 5-screw cart and a later 3-screw cart. Price guides such as PriceCharting list them as separate entries. Check the listing photos to see which shell this copy has. Both run the same game.
This is an NES cartridge made for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It plugs into a standard NES console and plays with the regular NES controller. For two-player games you need a second controller. You can find one in our NES controllers section.
Browse all our NES games. For the arcade game this one is built on, see Donkey Kong Jr. (Arcade Classics), or get both early Kong games on one cart with Donkey Kong Classics. Read more about Donkey Kong Jr. Math on Wikipedia.
When did it come out?
Nintendo released it in North America on October 18, 1985.
What math does it teach?
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Players build answers by collecting numbers and symbols.
Can two people play?
Yes. This Donkey Kong Jr Math Nintendo game supports one or two players.
Is the box included?
No. You get the loose cartridge only, with no box or manual.
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Promptly sent, wrapped well. A gift requested for my son. He collects old games and was pleased with this one.
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Gorillas can do math too.
Even though it matches the description of being the worst educational game ever made for the NES(its true) i have had fun playing this and having my students play it also.
Its a great addition to my NES game collection but will not be in heavy rotation.