#donkey kong 3

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: Stanley is a gardener who owns a greenhouse and uses a can of bug repellent to protect his flowers.

One of the greenhouses from Donkey Kong 3 appears in the level Fruity Factory from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. This implies that Juicy Jungle was once his home.

Source(s):

The Illustrated History of Electronic Games

[linkandorf]

Every Mario Character Update #16

Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushū (PC, 1984)

The Aliens.

If you think I missed anyone or you don't recognize someone, please let me know!

[winstein-nin]

Mario Characters as Batman Villains 33 - Stanley + Firebug

As I have alluded in my previous character drawing that combines Nabbit and March Harriet, that is not the end. In fact, you are looking at one of the ideas now! Stanley + Firebug was one idea I wanted to do before I take a break, but I decided that Dry Bowser is a much better character to do a daily drawing on.

Which is a good thing, because I had a bit of a conundrum with how to portray Stanley. I liked the Firebug design in Batman: Caped Crusader, but I wasn't sure if that is the best representation of Firebug, since the normal one had more "flare" in the design. In the end, I decided to combine them, namely using the overall Firebug design, but added some of the Caped Crusader version's touches that I like, such as the goggles and the gas tank, which helps to fuel Stanley's bug spray turned flamethrower.

Certainly, the use of "bug" is not lost on me, given Stanley's title as "Stanley the Bugman". One Redditor suggested that Mario should be Firebug but I already decided who Mario should be, but Firebug looks decently designed so it would be a shame to go unused, but then I see Stanley and decided he could be a Firebug, so in a way, this is a consolation price.

I decided that I would be doing these in batches of five to hopefully cover the target of 20 more designs, so as you can guess, I have the other four in this batch ready. Have a nice day!

Thank you for reading.

[hedgypipes]

Big day for Stanley fans (me)

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

The Kong Archipelago Location

So in an old developer interview from 1994 found on shmuplations, Miyamoto claims that "The Mushroom Kingdom looks to be on the outskirts of Donkey Kong's homeland, as seen in the game's ending…" in reference to DK 94's ending. So that seems to make it an open and shut case, DK's home is near the Mushroom Kingdom. Wellllll.... probably not. So with newer information from other games this piece of info in this interview has effectively been retconned. Thus DK's Tower is either not part of DK's homeland, or they went to the Mushroom Kingdom for the ending of the game. Why do I say this?

It's because in Donkey Konga 2 you can seen in the background of the menu, and from a scene from the story mode there appears to be a city in the distance across the water from Donkey Kong Island. In addition we actually see parts of this place for some of these levels for this game. This is more than likely the shoreline of the Metro Kingdom and would lead to Big Ape/ New Donk City. This would place the Kong Archipelago near the Metro Kingdom. Interestingly enough there is 2 sets of Islands on this Odyssey map near the Metro Kingdom that could fit the bill.

This would explain some other things. In Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze we see Stanley's Greenhouse from Donkey Kong III in the level Fruity Factory. This makes some sense, DK Snr. traveled on this island and gave Stanley trouble while on his way home. This also explains why it was so easy for the Kongs to get to Big Ape City in Donkey Kong Land. With that being said due to the trees I believe Mario Bombs Away would take place on one of these islands as well.

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[theruffiansretrorampage]

art by Porky Shine

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[pinkiemeowstic89]

Sakura (Alice) in Wonderland (1951) Cast

(Inspired by similar posts from @sundove88 and @thehyperrequiem )

Sakura (Fire Emblem Fates) as Alice

Hinoka (Fire Emblem Fates) as Alice's Sister

Skitty (Pokémon) as Dinah the Cat

Tom Nook (Animal Crossing) as the White Rabbit

Gundham Tanaka (Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair) as the Doorknob

Mr Dome (Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures) as the Dodo

Rough and Tumble (Sonic the Hedgehog IDW Comics) as Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum

Bowser (Super Mario Bros) as the Walrus

Stanley the Bugman (Donkey Kong 3) as the Carpenter

Dr Screwball Jones (Wander over Yonder) as Bill the Lizard

Cordelia (Fire Emblem Awakening) as the Rose

Olivia (Fire Emblem Awakening) as the Violet

Sumia (Fire Emblem Awakening) as the Daisy

Dr Pullem (Dan Vs) as the Caterpillar

CatNap (Smiling Critters/Poppy Playtime) as the Cheshire Cat

Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) as the Mad Hatter

Gremlin Gus (Epic Mickey/Disney Gremlins) as the March Hare

Wisp (Animal Crossing) as the Dormouse

Ms Endive (Chowder) as the Queen of Hearts

Taranza (Kirby Triple Deluxe) as the King of Hearts

[jefpoo421]

Stanley + Mario = Felix

[lynnbecks-mainblog]

Look, all I'm saying is if Nintendo can bring back the foreman from Wrecking Crew they can bring back Stanley the Bugman.

[kingdomeromega0816]

This character is none other than Bugman Stan from Donkey Kong 3. He was known to spray Donkey Kong (who is now Cranky Kong) when Donkey Kong caused problems. (I must do further research on the story of Donkey Kong 3.)

In my fanfic, he worked as an exterminator in New Donk City for some time. Stanley ended up falling into a picture frame that teleported him into Castle Toadstool's unused, huge internal plexus. He was lost and trapped in the plexus for two years and survived. He maneuvered his way out of traps, avoided attacks from the Cursed Pink Gold Peach Statue and the apparitions of Wario, Big Bertha and Bowser.

In the future, after Stanley has escaped the plexus, he eventually teams up with Mario, Peach, Geno, Captain Toad, Toadette, Escargoon and the 7 Chosen Heroes to finally defeat the Cursed Pink Gold Peach Statue.

(Bugman Stan is not my character, Stan is the intellectual property of Nintendo).

[linkandorf]

Every Mario Character Update #9

Donkey Kong 3 (Arcade, 1983)

Stanley's proper Mario series debut, alongside all of these freaky bugs he fights.

If you think I missed anyone or you don't recognize someone, please let me know!

[ryoner]

So, i played the original Donkey Kong trilogy on NES.

I definitely liked all of them, though we've come a long way since then.

From Mario (then Jumpman) saving his (then) girlfriend Pauline from Donkey Kong (now Cranky), to saving Donkey from Mario as Donkey Kong Jr. (now MIA) and finally shooing Donkey Kong out of a greenhouse with help from Stanley the Bugman (rumored to be in Alcoholics Anonymous with Junior), it's a fun time all around.

But i'm especially fascinated by the very character driven nature of these classic quarter munchers.

Donkey Kong is Nintendo's first huge success story in the world of videogames. It went on to define the company and even ever so slightly influence their games for decades to come. But most of all, it debuted Old Man Ninty's two premier superstars, Mario and Donkey Kong.

Jumpman and Donkey and Pauline, oh my!

The legend as old as time. Ape fancies woman. Takes her on a date. Carpenter kicks him in the shins and makes off with his lady. Rinse and repeat.

Nothing new here. Proto-Mario jumping his way to the top, dodging the barrels, springs and flames that his adversary presents him, while also whacking things with his hammer. All in pursuit of a fleeting romance.

But it's all so charming! What else could a simple carpenter do but pick up his hammer and follow the miscreant up an unfinished building? (Leave it to the authorities probably.) What would you do in Donkey's place, other than use what is available to you at the moment to defend your first love from your assailant? (Other than admit to yourself that the lady is in a commited relationship and keep dating elsewhere.)

Though there's nothing Pauline herself could've done. She's an unarmed woman who was kidnapped by a wild animal. Might as well let your normal ass dude boyfriend rescue you while cops don't do shit.

It does so much with so little. And it's just the start of an ever growing cast of colourful characters.

Let's not think about when Donkey Kong got around to conceiving Junior that's not my job.

When you go around kidnapping people off the street and carry them up a building, people are bound to consider putting you in a cage.

So guess what? The carpenter you menaced decides to do just that, with an assortment of tamed animals to help keep you prisoner. And now it's up to your child to save you! What a twist!

Donkey Kong Jr. is my personal favorite, even if Donkey Kong 3 is generally more engaging and action-y overall. And part of that comes down to how it all fits together.

While in the first game, Mario was more focused on jumping (duh), Junior is purveyor of the fine arts of monkey-ing around. A master climber!

While jumping is obviously still part of his moveset, he mostly gets around using vines. He's also even faster while climbing if he uses two of them!

Since Junior is a responsible child, instead of weapons he uses fruits scattered around the stage to deal with enemies. He's probably learned how to use everything at his disposal from his dear old dad. Aww!

Another nice touch are the stages itself. It's not just an unfinished skyscraper this time, but a slightly wider selection of locales, from a jungle, a forest, a power station (or some kinda factory with lots of faulty wiring) to the compound that DK is supposed to rot in.

Donkey Kong Jr. is the prime example of a good sequel. More stages, more engaging gameplay, good music and a logical next step to take the story. And this will not be the last time a kiddy Kong saves the day, but i'm getting ahead of myself here.

Donkey Kong has learned nothing and we are an exterminator now. Wow.

I must admit, Donkey Kong 3 is a better game than Jr., but that doesn't mean i like it better.

Sure, Stanley the Bugman ticks all the boxes. He is a normal dude going up against impossible odds, as Donkey Kong descends upon his greenhouse with a veritable army of bugs, trying to steal his flowers for some reason.

His moveset is appropriate for his job, as he sprays DK and the bugs as he ascends and descends his scaffolding. Dodges attacks like a champ, gets stronger bugspray as a powerup after driving DK high enough. Very action oriented fun gameplay.

But everything else suffers. Donkey Kong seemingly shows up for no real reason at this unassuming dudes property to steal flowers, which is even more of an excuse plot than the previous two games, while the action is entirely localized within that one greenhouse.

Perfectly fine game. But utterly unrelated to anything that has happened before and not at all relevant later. Heck, Stan basically disappears beyond this point. Even Junior got another shot in Donkey Kong 94 for the Game Boy, before becoming a deadbeat dad to the current Donkey Kong.

It's just a little bit lacking, in the ways that matter to me and my variable attention span.

Thus ends my small think piece on the donkey-est kong (NES) games

Nintendo has shown a great deal of care when it comes to character based games since the start, but also a tendency to take a wild swing in more or less random directions. Even way before their games shaped my tastes in a Scrimblo heavy direction.

And they won't stop any time soon.

[hedgypipes]

To ALL Mario And Nintendo Fans out there, October is both officially Stanley Month and Panel De Pon Mouth, especially for the former since his 40th birthday is coming up on Halloween!

[lostplay]

Game 26: Donkey Kong 3 (Feb. 2023) It's impressive to me that each sequel to the original Donkey Kong is not only weaker than the original, but also incredibly dull. There is a reason why you don't hear much about Stanley and his fight with Donkey Kong, and that's because the game just isn't interesting to any degree.

While I appreciate the change of genre for the series, from platformer to shoot'em up; largely the game just has no creative level direction to it. Each level is nearly identical in look and feel, and the only real change is the top part making it harder to hit Donkey Kong. The game's premise also being shooting Donkey Kong up the butt in order to knock him into a beehive is also surprisingly unsatisfying. This mainly comes from two problems, the amount of effort you have to put into knocking DK into a beehive, and the repetitive nature the gameplay has. You also have the option to defend your flowers from the various bees and bugs DK is sending you, but you mostly just lose points if they get them. This means that if you care about points you'll engage in defending your flowers, but for the rest of us, this simply isn't worth it. See, the other crux to this game is that it's set on a pretty small timer, and the longer you take to knock DK in the beehive, the more time and points you waste. Adding this in with how hard DK is to knock up, makes for the main concentration of the game on a narrow platform right below DK. There is nothing to really incentive the player to protect the plants or engage with the rest of the level aside from avoiding death. Even a simple change of pressing a button to activate something or the plants giving you power ups if you save them all would have been enough. Sadly, DK3 just doesn't think past it's one idea and never expands on how it could have been better.