dokey kong

The character of Donkey Kong was forever changed by Rare’s 1994 landmark game Donkey Kong Country. The sleeker redesign by British software developers, working with extremely young CGI technology, became DK’s look henceforth. The game had a built-in excuse for the change in appearance: The goofy-looking ape we saw in the arcades was now Cranky Kong, and the new DK was his son/grandson (depending on the game). But imagine if that hadn’t happened? What if Rare had simply used the original big grinning gorilla Miyamoto drew back at the dawn of the 80s? We think the results would’ve looked something like this: YouTuber Spacepig22 crated this fake demo using a CG-rendered representation of the original DK drawings. DK Junior replaces Diddy Kong. His models fit in so well that I was convinced he’d hacked new sprites into the game. Turns out it’s an elaborate repaste using Photoshop and After Effects, as he told Nintendo Life: – First I researched DK’s old design from arcade cabinets and the gameboy game. –