Haunted house (Donkey Kong coloring/activity books)
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| First appearance | Donkey Kong: Coloring & Activity Book (book 1) (1982) |
| Latest appearance | Donkey Kong: Coloring & Activity Book (book 3) (1982) |
The haunted house is an attraction built by Mario for Video Land Amusement Park in the Donkey Kong coloring and activity book series. The attraction first appears in the first book, where Mario is seen repairing it. While repairing it, Mario sighs while looking at Pauline, as he is unable to express his love for her.
The attraction has a more prominent role in the second book, where after searching the entire amusement park for Donkey Kong and Pauline, Mario realizes the only place they could be is in the haunted house. Mario musters his courage and barges inside. The inside of the attraction is very dark, and Mario calls for Pauline. As he slowly turns past a corner, a skeleton pops out from a nearby panel. Mario, frightened, jumps back, but he lands into the lap of a vampire inside a coffin. Mario is not deterred and runs towards Pauline. However, he fails to notice a trapdoor underneath him, which opens and drops him into the middle of a cemetery. In the cemetery, ghosts and ghouls rise from the graves, but Mario continues running to Pauline. Pauline's screams become louder as he runs to her, and Mario guesses that she is behind a set of doors. He pushes up the doors, which lead into a mad scientist's laboratory. Mario finds Pauline tied to an operating table with a doctor mannequin holding a saw and scalpel over her, but Donkey Kong swings across a hanging lightbulb and kicks Mario into a doctor mannequin. He then jumps on his back, but Mario swings his hammer on his foot, causing him to stagger and fall out a window from the pain. Mario and Pauline run out of the haunted house, with the book ending with Pauline hugging Mario and giving him a kiss for being her hero.
The haunted house appears again in the third book, where Mario and Pauline run out from the house after the events of the previous book. Later in the story, when Mario is captured by Donkey Kong, Mario calls Pauline to get his hammer, which was hidden by Donkey Kong inside the haunted house. Pauline runs into the haunted house, and after searching through cobwebs, he finds the hammer inside the mad scientist's laboratory. The haunted house does not make another appearance after this.
