Is Donkey Kong Junior the Donkey Kong from Donkey Kong Country/N64 game/Mario Tennis/Diddy Kong Racing/Smash Bros etc? The original Donkey Kong came out in 81 with Donkey Kong as the Villan, who had captured a blonde (princess peach?) and mario was off to save her. In the end, DK hits his head (assuming we're not talking about kill screeens) Then came Mario Bros, a game were mario was in the mushroom kingdom and peach had been captured again? is that right so far? Then king kuppa AKA Bowser steps in and takes on the as the main mario villian over the past years. Take it back to Donkey Kong. Mario is captured, and Donkey Kong jr comes to save the day. Did donkey kong become a good guy after the 3 original games, and DK jr is Diddy or the oaf from DKC3... or is DK jr what we know now as Donkey Kong? (Yes I am aware of Rare taking over the DK franc. from Nintendo, and that being the reason for the massive concept change of DK) but I wanna know if they ever released a back story to this change, a little "explain away"... or if you guys have theories. I always assumed DK jr became DK, but it was recently brought to my attention that all those bumps we put on DKs head might have messed with his head and knocked his coincence into play. (which would explain the games nintendo had planed to make where you could control mario/dk in the 80's, but never left pre-production)