As of right now in the United States, the trilogy
of Donkey Kong Country games for the Super Nintendo have been removed from the Wii (and thus, the Wii U) Virtual Console download service.
The original
Donkey Kong Country series considered Cranky Kong to be the elderly form of the very first Donkey Kong from the arcade games.
Wii owners who have already earmarked funds
for Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii may want to fork over some of that cash to GameStop, especially if they want to encase their Wii Remotes in banana pouches.
Runner - ups aren't too far behind, with David Wise getting a much welcome return to the series in
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, and the heavy rock laden Hyrule Warriors giving new perspective on the accustomed Zelda formula.
Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask 3D comes to mind, but there's even more recent games
like Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.
Apparently, I was wrong —
with Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Bayonetta 2, and now Hyrule Warriors (among others), I'm starting to see that the Wii U was a way better console than I thought.
While at Rare he worked on many projects
from Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo to Perfect Dark Zero on the Xbox 360.
Selling the company back for any price would pretty much be giving Nintendo the perfect weapon to sell a good ten million more copies of a Rare franchise game, one which do the same for the Wii U
as Donkey Kong Country Returns did for the Wii.
The catalog has been pulled from the
original Donkey Kong Country games on the Super Nintendo, albeit in remixed form, along with new tracks that fit the jungle - explorer theme quite well.
Now, I would absolutely love to see what Retro Studios could do if they were to make a third
Donkey Kong Country title of their own.
When Rare
released Donkey Kong Country for the Super NES in November 1994, they completely revised the design of the series main protagonist giving us the design we recognise today.
Rare's pioneering use of pre-rendered characters caused jaws to drop all over the world
when Donkey Kong Country made its debut in 1994, and while the game owes a massive debt to Super Mario, it's polished and entertaining enough to stand on its own as one of the best 16 - bit platformers ever made.
The Official Nintendo Magazine asked Nintendo supervisor Hiro Yamada if Retro is not making
making Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, then what is the Austin, Texas developer up to?
Nintendo revealed the release dates for many of their most anticipated 2010 releases,
including Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn.
Does Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze hold up compared to past entries in the series, or should Retro Studios have moved on to another franchise?
A very little known fact about Cranky's role in DK64 is that it was one of several themes based on the old
Donkey Kong Country TV show, in which Cranky was sometimes seen mixing up magic potions to use on either himself or others to advance that episode's plot.
While Donkey Kong Country Returns was no slouch in the musical department, it relied too heavily on remixed tracks from the original DKC.
Well, don't be, because you have just learned something new thanks to us, and now you can mock the fellow
Donkey Kong Country fans who, we guarantee you, have no idea about this!
These days, I get to enjoy the spectacle of someone being crap
at Donkey Kong Country all over again thanks to my five year - old son.
Funny thing is, as impressed
by Donkey Kong Country as everyone was at the time, I still considered Secret of Mana to be the better - looking game.
Sure, we didn't get the shock value since we knew what
Donkey Kong Country looked like, but we got better levels, a great new character in Dixie, way more collectibles, a bonus world, trivia, new animal buddies and a bigger challenge.
The minds
behind Donkey Kong Country, Goldeneye and (a personal favourite) Perfect Dark could do no wrong, and for a time, almost every one of their releases was an instant hit.
No matter if you're planning on
buying Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze physically or digitally, you should head over to the Wii U eShop to check out the cool music Nintendo has switched to in order to celebrate the release of the new game.
All - time classics such as Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and
Donkey Kong Country feel just as great now as they did 20 years ago, and games I missed out on as a kid, such as Secret of Mana and Super Castlevania IV, were a delight to play.
I just assumed there was an issue because about a month before I went to download those games on my new Wii (I was in college when the Wii released so I was behind due to lack of funding and time) all 3
Donkey Kong Country Games were removed from the Virtual Console.
If you're the sort of gamer who loves collecting everything in the games that they play
then Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will provide at least a dozen hours of entertainment.