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Donkey Kong Country (DKC) was somewhat of a gamble for Nintendo. For one, it had been years since home console gamers saw a Donkey Kong game. Earlier in 1994 Nintendo released Donkey Kong for their Game Boy handheld. That title was closer to the 1981 arcade classic, just with more levels. Donkey Kong Country on […]
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Donkey Kong Country Brings SGI Graphics and More to Super Nintendo – November 21st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
November 20th, 2020 
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Donkey Kong Jr Released for Mattel Intellivision
January 19th, 2019 Carl Williams Don’t tell Nintendo but IntellivisionRevolution has ported Donkey Kong Jr to the Mattel Intellivision console. Sure, the platform already had an official version but that has never stopped fans from doing this sort of thing before. Often the fan port is presented as a much better version – such as the fan ports of Pac-Man […]
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Billy Mitchell, King of Kong Co-Star, May Have Mislead Donkey Kong Scores
February 2nd, 2018 Carl Williams It seems that Billy Mitchell is the pivot point for controversy of some kind within the gaming world. His chosen game is Donkey Kong of course, as detailed in the “King of Kong” movie where Mitchell’s scores went head to head with those of Steve Weibe (neither hold the number one spot any longer). Now […]
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A Retro Gamer’s 12 Days Of Christmas: The Twelfth Day, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
December 24th, 2017 Brandon Weicks On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, twelve drummers drumming If you haven’t guessed by now, I am a big music and video game geek. Yes, I still own every original console I had as a kid and yes, I was a band nerd. Self shame will not allow me […]
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Today in Gaming History: Donkey Kong 3
June 4th, 2016 Dash The Bomber Known as the redheaded stepchild of the Donkey Kong series, Donkey Kong 3 is a game where you play as Stan the greenhouse man with a sniper spray gun. Donkey Kong has invaded his greenhouse in order to harass the bees Stan keeps inside to help pollinate his flowers. The bees none too happy about […]
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4 Unlicensed Donkey Kong Country Games You Missed Out On
December 23rd, 2015 Carl Williams Donkey Kong Country was one of the most visually impressive Super Nintendo titles. It left Sega and their Genesis sitting out cold as far as anything to compare. The Silicon Graphics workstation graphics were just too visually impressive and it drew in gamers like wildfire sucks up forests. Nintendo knew they had a hit on […]
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Bandit Gaming: Donkey Kong Jr Ported to the Commodore 64
November 8th, 2014 Carl Williams That old adage, what is old is new again, is certainly true in the homebrew scene as old gaming properties are constantly seeing new light on platforms they may have missed from official channels. We have seen Mario jump to the Sega Genesis, unofficial sequels to The Lion King, Link from The Legend of Zelda […]
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Game Hack: Donkey Kong Hacked into Streets of Rage 2 on Sega Genesis
September 30th, 2014 Carl Williams Hacks of Streets of Rage 2 are nothing new, it is more a case of covering the more interesting ones than it is a matter of simply covering every one of them. When I saw Donkey Kong had infiltrated the Sega Genesis brawler I knew I had to write it up, this is just too […]
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Hardware Hack: Donkey Kong Style Game Boy Advance SP Custom Case
September 20th, 2014 Carl Williams The name Vadu Amka shouldn’t be all that new to too many people reading this, after all he did create a special Sega Genesis/Mega Drive hardware mod that was pretty popular. Now, Vadu Amka has taken to modding the Game Boy Advance SP from Nintendo into a true work of art- Donkey Kong art that […]
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Bandit Gaming: Donkey Kong Country Recreated Using Doom Engine
September 14th, 2014 Carl Williams The headline is not misleading in any way. A modder by the name of “DooMero” has used the Doom engine, specifically the GZDooM hack, to recreate Donkey Kong Country in a 2.5D side scrolling platformer. The results are quite interesting to say the least.
