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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 
Carl Williams 
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 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.
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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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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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Prerendered Blastathon Vectorman Makes Sega Genesis Debut – October 24th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
October 24th, 2020 Carl Williams Vectorman was one of the better uses of prerendered computer graphics in games. Sure, Nintendo did it with the Donkey Kong Country franchise but that was, well, on the Super Nintendo. Sega needed something to brag about in this genre and Vectorman was it. I find it hard to ignore but there is a strong […]
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Nintendo Classic Orders Cancelled
August 13th, 2017 Carl Williams Due to a “technical glitch,” thousands of consumers ended up disappointed when Walmart had to cancel delivery of all pre-orders for the Nintendo SNES Classic console months ahead of the official fall release date. Although there’s no official word on the total number of pre-orders for the Nintendo SNES Classic console, what’s clear was that […]
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Sigi: A New Platformer with an Old Soul
March 28th, 2017 Brandon Weicks Steam Greenlight may be changing its name and direction soon, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t great games still hoping to find a place in your Steam library. Looking to follow in the pixelated footsteps of Greenlight hits like River City Ransom Underground and Organ Trail: Director’s Cut, Sigi offers retro platforming gameplay with modern […]
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9 Sequels That Kinda Sucked
August 23rd, 2016 Jason Pettit Every series has one game in it that just doesn’t compare to the rest. This can happen for a number of reasons; limited budget, trying to fix what isn’t broken, or a game is handed off to a completely different team that doesn’t understand what makes the series so special. Here are nine cases […]
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Sega Bundle Stars Package Gives Gamers Choices
July 21st, 2016 Carl Williams Sega, a company that many of us simply wish was still around in the console world, is alive in the digital/3rd party world. At least they have not forgotten their roots is a saying you may hear a lot with regard to Sega. The problem is, they kind of have. That is a discussion for […]
