Games Database
GBA
Platform
| Viewed: | 2D Side-on, Scrolling | Genre: | Platform |
| Arcade origin: | No | ||
| Developer: | Nintendo | Soft. Co.: | Nintendo |
| Publishers: | Nintendo
(JP/GB) |
Released: | 4 Nov 2005
(GB) 2005 (JP) |
| Ratings: | PEGI 3+ | ||
| No Accessories: | No Accessories | ||
Video
Summary
Back in the last days of the SNES, the machine enjoyed a glorious Indian summer as developers showed off the tricks they had learned while getting intimate with the machine. One of the examples most often pointed to in this golden age is Donkey Kong Country, by the Rare, who were then, of course, an exclusively Nintendo game-producing outfit.
The mock 3D sprites and the excellent music made our pimply jaws drop back then, and they still do now when you consider that this is a game on a 16 bit title. They look even better when you put them on a tiny screen, and this is why, along with a lot of other SNES classics, Donkey Kong Country was released on the Game Boy Advance. Lest we forget, there were three games in Rare’s late generation flurry, and DKC 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest was released on GBA last year. Considered by many to be the finest in the trilogy, it followed the adventures of Diddy as he searched for a kidnapped Donkey Kong. Now the third is to grace the tiny screen of the GBA: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble.
Kong country is, it seems, blighted by a never ending kidnapping problem and this time the horrible Kremlings have abducted both Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. It’s up to Dixie Kong and the latest in a long line of Kong characters with increasingly tiresome epithets, Kiddy Kong, to save them both. Apparently Dixie is Diddy’s girlfriend despite them sharing the same family name, adding weight to our long-held theory that the Kongs are not gorillas at all, but lascivious bonobo chimps.
Anyway, there are plenty of features for you to enjoy, whether you remember the original on the SNES or the GBA was the place you first visited Donkey Kong Country. Rare show signs of a growing tendency towards item collection that was to characterise their later platformers with the introduction of the Brothers Bear, an industrious collective that will build you what you need in return for their precious Bear Coins. A fun platformer for all, if a little easy, and a trip down memory lane for many of us.
The mock 3D sprites and the excellent music made our pimply jaws drop back then, and they still do now when you consider that this is a game on a 16 bit title. They look even better when you put them on a tiny screen, and this is why, along with a lot of other SNES classics, Donkey Kong Country was released on the Game Boy Advance. Lest we forget, there were three games in Rare’s late generation flurry, and DKC 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest was released on GBA last year. Considered by many to be the finest in the trilogy, it followed the adventures of Diddy as he searched for a kidnapped Donkey Kong. Now the third is to grace the tiny screen of the GBA: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble.
Kong country is, it seems, blighted by a never ending kidnapping problem and this time the horrible Kremlings have abducted both Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. It’s up to Dixie Kong and the latest in a long line of Kong characters with increasingly tiresome epithets, Kiddy Kong, to save them both. Apparently Dixie is Diddy’s girlfriend despite them sharing the same family name, adding weight to our long-held theory that the Kongs are not gorillas at all, but lascivious bonobo chimps.
Anyway, there are plenty of features for you to enjoy, whether you remember the original on the SNES or the GBA was the place you first visited Donkey Kong Country. Rare show signs of a growing tendency towards item collection that was to characterise their later platformers with the introduction of the Brothers Bear, an industrious collective that will build you what you need in return for their precious Bear Coins. A fun platformer for all, if a little easy, and a trip down memory lane for many of us.
