Only you can save the Princess! Grab your tool belt and get ready to climb and jump for your life! Mario must climb ladders and leap over tumbling Barrels to defeat Donkey Kong and save the Princess. Before Mario became super, he was a brave carpenter (or so says one early promotional flyer) instead of a plumber and had an 800-pound gorilla on his back. You can shake off that monkey all over again in the rerelease of Donkey Kong as part of the NES Classics series.