Mini Donkey Kong = Junior?

Junior first appeared in the form of a character named Mini Donkey Kong in the Game & Watch Donkey Kong title. He was a little gorilla sitting on a girder off to the side who handled the alarm function for the game (remember, they're also watches, of a sort). The Wonder Life guide for Donkey Kong '94 confirms that this is indeed the same character who showed up less than a year later in his own titular game, Donkey Kong Jr. But we'll get to that in a bit.