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It was also ported to the Family Computer Disk System, which was released only in Japan.
It was selected to be among five arcade games chosen for history's first official video game world championship, which was filmed at Twin Galaxies in Ottumwa, Iowa by ABC-TV's That's Incredible! over the weekend of January 8–9, 1983.
Computer Games magazine in 1984 reviewed the Coleco Adam version, calling it a "supergame adaptation" and the best conversion of the game.
Donkey Kong Jr. received an award in the category of "1984 Best Videogame Audio-Visual Effects (16K or more ROM)" at the 5th annual Arkie Awards, where the judges described it as "great fun", and noted that the game was successful as a sequel–"extend[ing] the theme and present[ing] a radically different play-action" than its predecessor, Donkey Kong.
In addition, Game Boy Gallery 3 contains JR. and 2, and Game Boy Gallery 4 (the GBA version was not released in Japan and was later distributed on Virtual Console) contains JR.
The game's title is written as Donkey Kong Junior in the North American arcade version and various conversions to non-Nintendo systems.
On August 10, 2008, Icarus Hall of Port Angeles, Washington, scored 1,033,000 points playing Donkey Kong Jr. On April 24, 2009, Steve Wiebe eclipsed Hall's score, finishing with 1,139,800 points.
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