 Donkey Kong Jr . Math had a poor reception from IGN , with Lucas M. Thomas finding its controls poor and its execution to be bland and flawed , while AU 's Cam Shea said it would be " too expensive if it was free " . Shea also included it on his list of the worst Virtual Console games , finding it difficult to imagine any reason why anyone would want to buy it . GameSpot 's Frank Provo found that it became boring quickly , also criticizing the mathematics problems for being either too easy for young children or too boring for older ones . Eurogamer 's Dan Whitehead commented that it gave him an " ironic smile " as a reminder of the NES era , though he could not justify paying five dollars for it . 
