The success of the game prompted Nintendo to release two arcade follow - ups: Donkey Kong Jr. in 1982, where the gorilla's son Donkey Kong Jr. goes on a similar quest to free Donkey Kong from the cage Mario (in his only «villainous» appearance ever in a video game)
keeps him trapped
inside, and Donkey Kong 3 in 1983, where Donkey Kong invades a greenhouse to eat vegetables and
stirs up flower - devouring insects in the process, and a one - time character and protagonist, Stanley the Bugman, must shoot bug spray both at the bugs and Donkey Kong to
keep both the flowers and vegetables intact.