Clearly Coleco at least tried to make 2600 Donkey Kong Junior a little closer to the arcade game than Donkey Kong, but the result still isn't all that great. This time three of the original four screens made it into the port, an improvement over Donkey Kong's two screens. The port even preserves one of the arcade game's end-of-screen themes to provide a better reward for each screen completed. The improvements end there, however, and ultimately the game is best described the same way as the original: promising yet unfulfilling, and really just not a whole lot of fun.
Grade: C.