                             DONKEY KONG
 
                            by Nintendo

The great arcade classic!!  Our family has played Donkey
Kong on both our Atari 2600 and our TI99/4A computer as well
as Donkey Kong clones on our Compaq, but the Donkey Kong
version for the Adam is the best one we've tried yet.

On the Atari, you just have two scenes: the barrel scene and
the fireball scene.  After playing this a while it gets
boring.  On the TI, the graphics are very similar to the
Adam and the play is more difficult than the Atari, but you
still just have the two same scenes.

To be honest, I have only got to the fifth scene so far on
the Adam version but I am anything but bored.  First of all
the graphics are terrific.  In the first scene, the barrel
scene, you must climb up the ladder to the top level to save
the girl while avoiding the barrels the ape is tossing at
you.  You have two strategically placed hammers you can use
to destroy the barrels if you wish.

On reaching the girl at the top, you go on to the next
scene--the fireball screen.  On this level you must cross
over all the floor holes to be able to go on to the next
scene without getting burned by the fireballs.  Once you
have crossed over the floorhole the first time causing the
yellow joint to fall out, you must jump them to avoid
falling and losing one life.  The fireballs can not cross
over the opened floorhole.  If you are very careful, you can
jump over the fireballs as you are maneuvering around trying
to cross all the floorholes. On this scene there are also
two hammers you can use to destroy the fireballs.

After crossing all the floorholes, you move on to the
elevator scene.  This was the hardest part for me until I
was able to do it one time--and my sons really enjoyed all
the action.  In this scene, you move up and down the stairs
to position yourself to jump to the elevator, preferably
when the fireball is not at the top of the midsection where
you want to get off the elevator.  The first elevator goes
up and you must time your jumps so you don't get squashed or
fall off.  As you near the top, get ready to jump to the
midsection, hopefully avoiding the fireball.  Then you need
to jump to the down elevator in order to get to the right
side of the screen.  Don't jump too soon or your man will be
killed.  Once on the right side you will be jumping from on
section to another in an upward movement while avoiding the
two remaining fireballs.  As quickly as possible make your
way up to the top with the girl.  The hardest part of this
screen is jumping to and from the elevators.

After ths you will go to another fireball scene that seems
to be the same as the second scene. After successfully
crossing all the floorholes, your next scene is another
elevator scene as in scene three.  So far this is as far as
we've gotten.  I'm sure my oldest will soon leave me far
behind as he did in Donkey Kong Jr.

This version can be played both as a one or two player game.
It has four levels of difficulty to choose from.  Another
great Adam game!

