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| image = Dk3 arcade.jpg | image = Dk3 arcade.jpg
| caption = European arcade flyer | caption = European arcade flyer
| developer = ]<br>]<br>] (Famicom/NES version)<br>] (The Great Counterattack) | developer = ]<br>] (Famicom/NES)
| publisher = ] | publisher = ]
| director = ] | director = ]
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| series = '']'' | series = '']''
| platforms = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>] | platforms = ], ], ]
| released = {{Collapsible list | released = {{Collapsible list
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| '''Arcade''' {{vgrelease|JP|September 28, 1983<ref name="Copyright">{{cite web |title=Donkey Kong 3 (Registration Number PA0000191724) |url=https://cocatalog.loc.gov |website=] |access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref>|NA|October 7, 1983<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005) |date=October 13, 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |language=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=128 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n129}}</ref>|EU|November 19, 1983<ref>{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Donkey Kong 3, Nintendo (EU) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=317 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=29 August 2021}}</ref>}} | '''Arcade''' {{vgrelease|JP/NA|October 1983<ref>{{cite book | title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編 (1971–2005) | trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005) | last1=Akagi | first1=Masumi | publisher=Amusement News Agency | year=2006 | url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n57/mode/2up| lang=ja | location=Japan | isbn=978-4990251215 | page=57}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005) |date=October 13, 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |language=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=128 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n129}}</ref>|EU|Late 1983<ref>{{cite web |title=Video Game Flyers: Donkey Kong 3, Nintendo (EU) |url=https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=317 |website=The Arcade Flyer Archive |access-date=29 August 2021 |archive-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829230457/https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=thumbs&db=videodb&id=317 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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| genre = ] | genre = ]
| modes = ], ] | modes = ], ]
| designer = Shigeru Miyamoto | designer = Shigeru Miyamoto
| title = Donkey Kong 3
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⚫ {{Nihongo foot|'''''Donkey Kong 3'''''|ドンキーコング3|'''''Donkī Kongu Surī'''''|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a ] ] developed and published by ]. It is the third installment in the ] and was released for ] worldwide in 1983, the ] in 1984, then in North America for the ] in 1986. The gameplay departs from previous ''Donkey Kong'' games, and it stars an exterminator named Stanley instead of ].<ref name="ah">{{cite web |title=Donkey Kong 3 |url=https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=donkey-kong-3&page=detail&id=667 |website=Arcade History |access-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204014833/https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=donkey-kong-3&page=detail&id=667 |url-status=live }}</ref> The game was a modest financial success in Japan, but its commercial failure in the United States rendered the ''Donkey Kong'' series inactive until the release of '']'' (1994) and '']''.

⚫ {{Nihongo foot|'''''Donkey Kong 3'''''|ドンキーコング3|Donkī Kongu Surī|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a ] ] ] developed and published by ]. It is the third installment in the ] and it was released for ] worldwide in 1983 and the ] in 1984, then later released in North America for the ] in 1986. The gameplay departs from previous ''Donkey Kong'' games, being primarily a ], and starring an exterminator named Stanley instead of ].<ref name="ah">{{cite web |title=Donkey Kong 3 |url=https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=donkey-kong-3&page=detail&id=667 |website=Arcade History}}</ref>


It was re-released on the ] ] in North America on July 14, 2008, and in Europe on January 9, 2009. It was re-released on ] through ]. It was re-released on the ] ] in North America on July 14, 2008, and in Europe on January 9, 2009. It was re-released on ] through ].
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== Gameplay == == Gameplay ==
] ]

Donkey Kong hangs from vines at the center of the screen, and the player-controlled Stanley the exterminator runs and jumps on platforms beneath him. Stanley can fire bug spray at both Donkey Kong and insects flying around the levels. A level is completed by continually using his sprayer on Donkey Kong, forcing him to the top of the screen, or by killing all of the bugs. A Super Sprayer can on the vines falls down when Donkey Kong is sprayed past it. The Super Sprayer only lasts for a limited amount of time, but it pushes Donkey Kong upward at a much faster rate, making it easier to complete the level. It only spawns at the start of each life. Donkey Kong hangs from vines at the center of the screen, and the player-controlled Stanley the exterminator runs and jumps on platforms beneath him. Stanley can fire bug spray at both Donkey Kong and insects flying around the levels. A level is completed by continually using his sprayer on Donkey Kong, forcing him to the top of the screen, or by killing all of the bugs. A Super Sprayer can on the vines falls down when Donkey Kong is sprayed past it. The Super Sprayer only lasts for a limited amount of time, but it pushes Donkey Kong upward at a much faster rate, making it easier to complete the level. It only spawns at the start of each life.


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There are three levels which repeat in a fixed sequence. An extra life is given at 50,000 points, and then the game goes to "survival of the fittest" mode thereafter. There are three levels which repeat in a fixed sequence. An extra life is given at 50,000 points, and then the game goes to "survival of the fittest" mode thereafter.

== Plot ==
Donkey Kong has begun rampaging in Stanley's greenhouse garden and it's up to him to stop the ape from stirring up any more insects that will soon destroy his flowers. Stanley saves the flowers by spraying bug spray on Donkey Kong and exterminating all of the attacking bees.


== Reception == == Reception ==
The game was moderately successful in Japan, where ''Game Machine'' listed ''Donkey Kong 3'' on their December 1, 1983, issue as being the fourth most-successful new table arcade unit of the month.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型新製品 (New Videos-Table Type)|magazine=]|date=1 December 1983|page=32|lang=ja}}</ref> Despite this, it was a commercial failure in North America, particularly due to the wake of the ]. The game was moderately successful in Japan, where ''Game Machine'' listed ''Donkey Kong 3'' on their December 1, 1983, issue as being the fourth most-successful new table arcade unit of the month.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型新製品 (New Videos-Table Type)|magazine=]|date=1 December 1983|page=32|lang=ja}}</ref> Despite this, it was a commercial failure in North America, particularly due to the wake of the ].


Reviews for the arcade game were generally positive. Gene Lewin of '']'' magazine rated it 8 out of 10.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Lewin |first1=Gene |title=Gene's Judgements: Critiquing AMOA Show Conversions, Dedicated Games |magazine=] |date=January 15, 1984 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=60–2 |url=https://archive.org/details/play-meter-volume-10-number-2-january-15th-1984/Play%20Meter%20-%20Volume%2010%2C%20Number%202%20-%20January%2015th%201984/page/60/mode/2up}}</ref> '']'' said that the game's "fast action and superior sound effects" made ''Donkey Kong 3'' a "sure hit" in arcades.<ref name=CVG>"Donkey Kong Swings Back." '']''. February 1984. p. 50.</ref> Reviews for the arcade game were generally positive. Gene Lewin of '']'' magazine rated it 8 out of 10.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Lewin |first1=Gene |title=Gene's Judgements: Critiquing AMOA Show Conversions, Dedicated Games |magazine=] |date=January 15, 1984 |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=60–2 |url=https://archive.org/details/play-meter-volume-10-number-2-january-15th-1984/Play%20Meter%20-%20Volume%2010%2C%20Number%202%20-%20January%2015th%201984/page/60/mode/2up}}</ref> '']'' said that the game's "fast action and superior sound effects" made ''Donkey Kong 3'' a "sure hit" in arcades.<ref name=CVG>"Donkey Kong Swings Back". '']''. February 1984. p. 50.</ref>


Retrospectively, reception has been divisive, with criticism aimed at its departure of its predecessors and the lack of ]. ] gave the Virtual Console version a 6.0 out of 10, describing it as a "radical departure" from the previous Donkey Kong games, calling it "repetitive."<ref name="IGN Donkey Kong 3 VC review">{{cite web|url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/893/893851p1.html|title=Donkey Kong 3 Review|access-date=August 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813213417/http://wii.ign.com/articles/893/893851p1.html|archive-date=August 13, 2012|url-status=dead|website=]}}</ref> Retrospectively, reception has been divisive, with criticism aimed at its departure of its predecessors and the lack of ]. ] gave the Virtual Console version a 6.0 out of 10, describing it as a "radical departure" from the previous Donkey Kong games, calling it "repetitive".<ref name="IGN Donkey Kong 3 VC review">{{cite web|url=http://wii.ign.com/articles/893/893851p1.html|title=Donkey Kong 3 Review|access-date=August 27, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813213417/http://wii.ign.com/articles/893/893851p1.html|archive-date=August 13, 2012|url-status=dead|website=]}}</ref>

In 2015, Nathan Birch of '']'' ranked ''Donkey Kong 3'' twentieth on a list of the thirty NES black box titles. Birch called the game "fun enough" but criticized the gameplay as "simple, not-terribly-challenging arcade action", which he felt deviated too far from the gameplay of the game's predecessors. Because of its change to the genre, he thought that the game "killed" the series until its comeback with '']''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Birch |first=Nathan |date=2015-10-18 |title=Ranking All 30 'Black Box' Nintendo Games In Honor Of The NES' 30th Birthday |url=https://uproxx.com/gaming/30-black-box-nes-games-ranked/ |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=UPROXX |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Legacy == == Legacy ==
] ]
⚫ A VS. series ''Game & Watch'' version of the arcade game has different gameplay. In this version, player one controls Stanley the Bugman and computer player (or player two) controls Donkey Kong in a duel against each other using exterminating spray cans to move the bees to the other side of them to make the bees sting their opponents. Players can only hold up to three amounts of spraying liquid in their spray cans. On one player mode, the higher player one as Stanley scores, the faster the spraying liquid on the side of computer player as Donkey Kong drops. A version of this game was included in '']'' for the ], but featuring Mario in place of Stanley and a Boo and a Fireball in place of the bees.


⚫ The NES version of ''Donkey Kong 3'' was released on the ], ] and ],<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nintendo.com/|title=Nintendo - Official Site - Video Game Consoles, Games|website=www.nintendo.com|access-date=December 12, 2018|archive-date=July 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710223614/https://www.nintendo.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> whilst the arcade version was released on the ] ] as part of ]'s ] series.
⚫ A VS. series ''Game & Watch'' version of the arcade game has different gameplay. In this version, player one controls Stanley the Bugman and computer player (or player two) controls Donkey Kong in a duel against each other using exterminating spray cans to move the bees to the other side of them to make the bees sting their opponents. Players can only hold up to three amounts of spraying liquid in their spray cans. On one player mode, the higher player one as Stanley scores, the faster the spraying liquid on the side of computer player as Donkey Kong drops. A version of this game was included in '']'' for the ], but featuring Mario in place of Stanley and a Boo and a Fireball in place of the bees.

⚫ The NES version of ''Donkey Kong 3'' was released on the ], ] and ],<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nintendo.com/|title=Nintendo - Official Site - Video Game Consoles, Games|website=www.nintendo.com}}</ref> whilst the arcade version was released on the ] ] as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives series.


The current world record is held by George Riley (USA) at 3,538,000 points (2011).<ref name="DK3WR">Deaves. Gaz, Gaming Editor. Gamers Edition, Guinness World Record 2012</ref><ref name="ISBN">{{Cite book|isbn = 9781904994763|title = Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer's Edition|last1 = Records|first1 = Guinness World|date = January 3, 2012}}</ref> The current world record is held by George Riley (USA) at 3,538,000 points (2011).<ref name="DK3WR">Deaves. Gaz, Gaming Editor. Gamers Edition, Guinness World Record 2012</ref><ref name="ISBN">{{Cite book|isbn = 9781904994763|title = Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer's Edition|date = January 3, 2012|publisher=Guinness World Records}}</ref>


=== {{Anchor|Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack}} Semi-sequel === === {{Anchor|Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack}} Semi-sequel ===
In 1984, ] developed a semi-sequel for the Japanese-only ], ], and ] personal computers titled {{Nihongo foot|''Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack''.|ドンキーコング3 大逆襲|Donkī Kongu Surī Dai Gyakushū|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}}<ref name="Sharp X1 version">{{Cite web|url=https://kotaku.com/you-can-finally-play-a-long-lost-donkey-kong-game-1823308987|title=You Can Finally Play A Long-Lost Donkey Kong Game|website=]|date=February 25, 2018 }}</ref> A version for the ] was also planned, but was never released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fm-7.com/museum/softhouse/hudsonsoft/500790300.html|title=Oh!FM-7：ドンキーコング3 大逆襲（ハドソンソフト）|website=www.fm-7.com|language=ja}}</ref> This game is significantly different from the original. While the object to shoot Donkey Kong up in the air remains, it has 20 outdoor backgrounds such as a bridge, Planet Saturn, a desert, a pyramid, and a highway. Stanley can only move from left to right and is no longer able to jump. In 1984, ] developed a semi-sequel for the Japanese-only ], ], and ] personal computers titled {{Nihongo foot|''Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack''.|ドンキーコング3 大逆襲|Donkī Kongu Surī Dai Gyakushū|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}}<ref name="Sharp X1 version">{{Cite web|url=https://kotaku.com/you-can-finally-play-a-long-lost-donkey-kong-game-1823308987|title=You Can Finally Play A Long-Lost Donkey Kong Game|website=]|date=February 25, 2018|access-date=November 27, 2018|archive-date=November 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130084811/https://kotaku.com/you-can-finally-play-a-long-lost-donkey-kong-game-1823308987|url-status=live}}</ref> A version for the ] was also planned, but was never released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fm-7.com/museum/softhouse/hudsonsoft/500790300.html|title=Oh!FM-7：ドンキーコング3 大逆襲（ハドソンソフト）|website=www.fm-7.com|language=ja|access-date=November 27, 2018|archive-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112184448/http://fm-7.com/museum/softhouse/hudsonsoft/500790300.html|url-status=live}}</ref> This game is significantly different from the original. While the object to shoot Donkey Kong up in the air remains, it has 20 outdoor backgrounds such as a bridge, Planet Saturn, a desert, a pyramid, and a highway. Stanley can only move from left to right and is no longer able to jump.


For decades, ''Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack'' was inaccessible outside of Japan. In December 2017, a copy of the Sharp X1 version was bought at a ] online auction.<ref name="Sharp X1 version"/> In February 2018, it was made available via ].<ref name="Sharp X1 version"/> The PC-8801 version was subsequently uncovered in January 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2019/02/donkey-kong-3-dai-gyakushuu-pc-8801/|title=Donkey Kong 3 : Dai Gyakushuu (PC-8801)|website=www.gamingalexandria.com}}</ref> For decades, ''Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack'' was inaccessible outside of Japan. In December 2017, a copy of the Sharp X1 version was bought at a ] online auction.<ref name="Sharp X1 version"/> Two months later, it was made available via ].<ref name="Sharp X1 version"/> The PC-8801 version was subsequently uncovered in January 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2019/02/donkey-kong-3-dai-gyakushuu-pc-8801/|title=Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushuu (PC-8801)|website=www.gamingalexandria.com}}</ref>


== Notes == == Notes ==
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1983 video game

1983 video game
Donkey Kong 3
European arcade flyer
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems (Famicom/NES)
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Producer(s)Gunpei Yokoi
Designer(s)Shigeru Miyamoto
Composer(s)Hirokazu Tanaka
SeriesDonkey Kong
Platform(s)Arcade, Famicom/NES, Game & Watch
Release October 1983
  • Arcade
    • JP/NA: October 1983
    • EU: Late 1983
  • Famicom/NES
    • JP: July 4, 1984
    • NA: June 1986
    • EU: September 15, 1987
  • Game & Watch
    • JP/NA: August 20, 1984
  • e-Reader
    • NA: September 16, 2002
Genre(s)Shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Donkey Kong 3 is a shooter video game developed and published by Nintendo. It is the third installment in the Donkey Kong series and was released for arcades worldwide in 1983, the Family Computer in 1984, then in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. The gameplay departs from previous Donkey Kong games, and it stars an exterminator named Stanley instead of Mario. The game was a modest financial success in Japan, but its commercial failure in the United States rendered the Donkey Kong series inactive until the release of Donkey Kong (1994) and Donkey Kong Country.

It was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in North America on July 14, 2008, and in Europe on January 9, 2009. It was re-released on Nintendo Switch through Nintendo Switch Online.

Gameplay

Arcade screenshot

Donkey Kong hangs from vines at the center of the screen, and the player-controlled Stanley the exterminator runs and jumps on platforms beneath him. Stanley can fire bug spray at both Donkey Kong and insects flying around the levels. A level is completed by continually using his sprayer on Donkey Kong, forcing him to the top of the screen, or by killing all of the bugs. A Super Sprayer can on the vines falls down when Donkey Kong is sprayed past it. The Super Sprayer only lasts for a limited amount of time, but it pushes Donkey Kong upward at a much faster rate, making it easier to complete the level. It only spawns at the start of each life.

The insects consist of Buzzbees, queen Beespies (which shatter into deadly pieces when destroyed), Creepy inchworms, Attacker bees, Kabutomushi beetles, and Butterflies. Some of the flying insects attempt to pick up the flowers at the bottom of the screen and carry them away. Lost flowers decrease the bonus at the end of the round.

There are three levels which repeat in a fixed sequence. An extra life is given at 50,000 points, and then the game goes to "survival of the fittest" mode thereafter.

Plot

Donkey Kong has begun rampaging in Stanley's greenhouse garden and it's up to him to stop the ape from stirring up any more insects that will soon destroy his flowers. Stanley saves the flowers by spraying bug spray on Donkey Kong and exterminating all of the attacking bees.

Reception

The game was moderately successful in Japan, where Game Machine listed Donkey Kong 3 on their December 1, 1983, issue as being the fourth most-successful new table arcade unit of the month. Despite this, it was a commercial failure in North America, particularly due to the wake of the video game crash of 1983.

Reviews for the arcade game were generally positive. Gene Lewin of Play Meter magazine rated it 8 out of 10. Computer and Video Games said that the game's "fast action and superior sound effects" made Donkey Kong 3 a "sure hit" in arcades.

Retrospectively, reception has been divisive, with criticism aimed at its departure of its predecessors and the lack of Mario. IGN gave the Virtual Console version a 6.0 out of 10, describing it as a "radical departure" from the previous Donkey Kong games, calling it "repetitive".

In 2015, Nathan Birch of Uproxx ranked Donkey Kong 3 twentieth on a list of the thirty NES black box titles. Birch called the game "fun enough" but criticized the gameplay as "simple, not-terribly-challenging arcade action", which he felt deviated too far from the gameplay of the game's predecessors. Because of its change to the genre, he thought that the game "killed" the series until its comeback with Donkey Kong Country.

Legacy

Game & Watch Donkey Kong 3

A VS. series Game & Watch version of the arcade game has different gameplay. In this version, player one controls Stanley the Bugman and computer player (or player two) controls Donkey Kong in a duel against each other using exterminating spray cans to move the bees to the other side of them to make the bees sting their opponents. Players can only hold up to three amounts of spraying liquid in their spray cans. On one player mode, the higher player one as Stanley scores, the faster the spraying liquid on the side of computer player as Donkey Kong drops. A version of this game was included in Game & Watch Gallery 4 for the Game Boy Advance, but featuring Mario in place of Stanley and a Boo and a Fireball in place of the bees.

The NES version of Donkey Kong 3 was released on the Wii Virtual Console, 3DS Virtual Console and Wii U Virtual Console, whilst the arcade version was released on the Nintendo Switch eShop as part of Hamster Corporation's Arcade Archives series.

The current world record is held by George Riley (USA) at 3,538,000 points (2011).

Semi-sequel

In 1984, Hudson Soft developed a semi-sequel for the Japanese-only NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6601, and Sharp X1 personal computers titled Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack. A version for the FM-7 was also planned, but was never released. This game is significantly different from the original. While the object to shoot Donkey Kong up in the air remains, it has 20 outdoor backgrounds such as a bridge, Planet Saturn, a desert, a pyramid, and a highway. Stanley can only move from left to right and is no longer able to jump.

For decades, Donkey Kong 3: The Great Counterattack was inaccessible outside of Japan. In December 2017, a copy of the Sharp X1 version was bought at a Yahoo! Auctions online auction. Two months later, it was made available via emulation. The PC-8801 version was subsequently uncovered in January 2019.

Notes

  1. Japanese: ドンキーコング3, Hepburn: Donkī Kongu Surī
  2. Japanese: ドンキーコング3 大逆襲, Hepburn: Donkī Kongu Surī Dai Gyakushū

References

  1. "Video Game Flyers: Donkey Kong 3, Nintendo (EU)". The Arcade Flyer Archive. Archived from the original on August 29, 2021. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
  2. Akagi, Masumi (2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編 (1971–2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 57. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  3. Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 128. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  4. "Donkey Kong 3". Arcade History. Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  5. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型新製品 (New Videos-Table Type)". Game shut the :アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc. (in Japanese). December 1, 1983. p. 32.
  6. Lewin, Gene (January 15, 1984). "Gene's Judgements: Critiquing AMOA Show Conversions, Dedicated Games". Play Meter. Vol. 10, no. 2. pp. 60–2.
  7. "Donkey Kong Swings Back". Computer and Video Games. February 1984. p. 50.
  8. "Donkey Kong 3 Review". IGN. Archived from the original on August 13, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2008.
  9. Birch, Nathan (October 18, 2015). "Ranking All 30 'Black Box' Nintendo Games In Honor Of The NES' 30th Birthday". UPROXX. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  10. "Nintendo - Official Site - Video Game Consoles, Games". www.nintendo.com. Archived from the original on July 10, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  11. Deaves. Gaz, Gaming Editor. Gamers Edition, Guinness World Record 2012
  12. Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer's Edition. Guinness World Records. January 3, 2012. ISBN 9781904994763.
  13. ^ "You Can Finally Play A Long-Lost Donkey Kong Game". Kotaku. February 25, 2018. Archived from the original on November 30, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  14. "Oh!FM-7：ドンキーコング3 大逆襲（ハドソンソフト）". www.fm-7.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 12, 2019. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
  15. "Donkey Kong 3: Dai Gyakushuu (PC-8801)". www.gamingalexandria.com.

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