Donkey Kong Jr. Math (NES) Full Playthrough (Operations Exercise)
0Donkey Kong Jr. Math is basically a modification of the Donkey Kong Jr. arcade game made to be educational. The main goal is to practice math solving skills. It presents different types of operations to the player and they must solve them in order to get the most points. At first I was in on the idea. The game seemed simple enough to play. However, I'm not a fan of how strict the points timer is. It makes you feel like only a computer could get max score. Also, in the harder operations modes, it becomes more of a test of your ability to input the answers correctly into the game, rather than a test of being able to come up with the correct answers. The game goes against your basic instincts on how to quickly and efficiently solve the problems.
This is the Operations Exercise game mode. You get to choose from nine different operations to test yourself with, and then the game begins. You must solve 10 problems as fast as you can. The longer you take, the less points you get, with a maximum score of 1000. This is where the game starts to fall apart. It starts off easy enough, but it quickly becomes nothing but frustration as your methods of solving math problems in your head start to clash with how this game wants you to solve them. I could not believe how needlessly complicated this game makes solving simple math to be. Whoever designed this game should go back to school.
I initially set out to record all the exercises in one session, but the input process was just too idiotic. All of these exercises were taken across a handful of recording sessions. It doesn't really matter considering that high scores are tracked separately for each one.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Title Screen
00:00:14 Exercise 1: [ ][ ]+[ ][ ]
00:03:22 Exercise 2: [ ][ ][ ]-[ ][ ][ ]
00:07:33 Exercise 3: [ ][ ][ ][ ]+[ ][ ][ ][ ]
00:11:33 Exercise 4: [ ][ ][ ][ ]-[ ][ ][ ][ ]
00:16:07 Exercise 5: [ ]x[ ]
00:18:36 Exercise 6: [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]+[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
00:23:27 Exercise 7: [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]-[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
00:30:27 Exercise 8: [ ][ ][ ]x[ ][ ]
00:41:57 Exercise 9: [ ][ ]/[ ]