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December 14, 2020

Nintendo Adding DKC 3 To Switch Online Library This Month

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Nintendo still hasn’t forgotten about their Switch Online library of 8 and 16-bit games, though they’re going to run out of first-party entries before long. This afternoon a trailer went live that confirms we’re getting Donkey Kong Country 3 this month, along with a few other obscure choices. DKC1 was added to NSO a few months ago, and it was really only a matter of time before the other two made their appearances. DKC3 is often cited as the weakest entry in the original trilogy, with its lazier vibe, duller music and experimental overworld that didn’t quite work out. Overall, though, it’s still solid. As for third parties, we have some wild choices this time: THE IGNITION FACTOR, an overhead firefighting game. SUPER VALIS IV, a sword-slashing sidescroller with a female star (one of the few in the SNES era). The gritty point-and-click NIGHTSHADE, one of the most original and unique titles in the NES library. And as for TUFF E NUFF, all you need to know is that the

July 7, 2020

Nintendo Switch Online Gains Donkey Kong Country

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We’re not sure how long Nintendo plans to keep their Switch Online back-catalog thingamajig going, given that they’ll eventually run out of interesting titles. At least, they will if they stick with NES and SNES forever. There are, however, still a few glaring omissions in the virtual library, and one is about to be filled. Nintendo just announced that Donkey Kong Country (the 1994 original) is headed to Nintendo Switch Online next week. The smash hit revitalized the SNES against heavy competition with its prerendered graphics (an unseen novelty at the time), its addictive platforming gameplay, and its cheeky British wit. It also started a fruitful partnership between Nintendo and Rare that would serve the former company well in the N64 days. Super NES™ Donkey Kong Country – Armed with chest-pounding muscle, mighty barrel rolls, and awesome vine-swinging skills, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong set out to face their adversaries, K. Rool and his reptilian crew of Kremlings. Play solo, compete with a friend, or play cooperatively in over 100

April 10, 2018

If Donkey Kong Country Used Classic Kong, It Would’ve Looked Like This

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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. –

February 26, 2015

Donkey Kong Country Trilogy Finally Hits Wii U eShop

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Not just “trilogy,” but “trilo-gies.” For the first time, the Donkey Kong Land Game Boy games are also available. Why is this news? Because in November of 2012, Donkey Kong Country and its sequels were pulled from the Wii Shop Channel without warning or any explanation. They were still re-downloadable if you’d purchased them before, but newcomers were out of luck, and were given no advance notice they would be. I, personally, had only bought the first DKC and when I felt the urge to replay DKC2, I had to drag out the old cart and play the game with a fuzzy analog picture. Whatever issue was going on behind the scenes appears to have been resolved. For first buyers, the SNES DKCs are $7.99 each and the Game Boy DKLs are $3.99 each. If you already purchased any of the DKC SNES titles before they went offline, you can buy the Wii U versions for a buck fifty. The DKCs on the Wii Shop Channel have also been restored