All it has going for it is the hilarious idea of shooting bug poison up Donkey Kong’s bum. Between these and the caterpillars that serve no purpose but to block your attacks, Donkey Kong 3 really didn’t seem to have a vision for the type of fast-paced, white-knuckle gameplay that the genre required by this point. Instead of dealing with space bugs, you’re dealing with garden-variety Earth bugs in a greenhouse that attack in waves and sometimes just straight-up shoot you with a stinger with seemingly no visual or audio warning it’s coming. The aim here seems to have been to combine platforming with space shooting, but the platforming elements really aren’t a major factor in the game and the shooting elements leave a lot to be desired. How come it never comes up in the discussion of potential worst Nintendo developed titles? Because it’s pretty fucking sorry. Once again, Hamster has put together a well-emulated package that’s all for naught, because Donkey Kong 3 is a terrible game. For all we know, Donkey Kong’s coconut gun just fired in spurts and Stanley is about to be Bukaked on. The beauty of a screenshot is that you can’t tell that it’s Stanley the Bugman shooting DK here.