![]() A reboot of the Donkey Kong franchise, its story begins when King K. The player character, Diddy Kong, jumps on a Kremling in a jungle-themed level.ĭonkey Kong Country is a side-scrolling platform game. After a hiatus, during which Rare was acquired by the Nintendo competitor Microsoft, Retro Studios revived the series with Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010) for the Wii and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014) for the Wii U. Rare followed it with two sequels for the SNES, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (1995) and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1996), and the Nintendo 64 game Donkey Kong 64 (1999). It is considered one of the greatest video games of all time and has been ported to platforms such as the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and digital distribution services. Following the success, Nintendo purchased a large minority stake in Rare, which became a prominent second-party developer for Nintendo during the late 1990s.ĭonkey Kong Country re-established Donkey Kong as a popular Nintendo franchise and is credited for helping Nintendo win the console war of the 1990s and maintaining the SNES's popularity into the fifth generation of video game consoles. With 9.3 million copies sold worldwide, it is the third-bestselling SNES game and the bestselling Donkey Kong game. Donkey Kong Country received several year-end accolades and set the record for the fastest-selling video game at the time. Its quality and design were favourably compared to the Super Mario series. It was released in November 1994 to acclaim critics hailed its visuals as groundbreaking and praised its gameplay and music. It was the first Donkey Kong game neither produced nor directed by the creator Shigeru Miyamoto, though he contributed design ideas.įollowing its announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1994, Donkey Kong Country was highly anticipated and backed by a major marketing campaign that cost $16 million in America alone. Donkey Kong Country was inspired by the Super Mario series and was one of the first home console games to feature pre-rendered graphics, achieved through a compression technique that allowed Rare to convert 3D models into SNES sprites with little loss of detail. Rare assembled 12 developers to work on Donkey Kong Country over 18 months. Nintendo sought a game to compete with Sega's Aladdin (1993) and commissioned Rare to revive the dormant Donkey Kong franchise. In multiplayer modes, two players work cooperatively or race each other.Īfter developing Nintendo Entertainment System games in the 1980s, Rare, a British studio founded by Tim and Chris Stamper, purchased Silicon Graphics workstations to render 3D models. They collect items, ride minecarts and animals, defeat enemies and bosses, and find secret bonus stages. The single-player traverses 40 side-scrolling levels as they jump between platforms and avoid obstacles. It is a reboot of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise and follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set out to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Shipping to Australia, New Zealand and South America takes +4 weeks, sometimes more.Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). for the rest of the world).īOXSET not sold separately. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you like to save on shipping, and avoid any issues during shipping, and as long as stock lasts, all Donkey Kong Country OST will be then after available via Musique Pour La Danse distribution Network (L.I.T.A. Mastered for vinyl, fully licensed, half speed mastering, colored vinyl and presented in a limited edition Bandcamp Exclusive boxset containing the Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 OST, for those who already purchased the Donkey Kong Country 1 OST. To find out more about his process watch an explanatory video here: cutt.ly/ulUHE6J Using hex SPC data crudely converted to MIDI, Jammin' Sam Miller painstakingly recreated DKC's soundtrack note by note, by finding the original equipment used to create it, translating the MIDI into a modern studio context, adding in keyboard samples, and re-mixing the sounds with added effects and mastering. Musique Pour La Danse is proud to present the Donkey Kong Country 2 and 3 OST boxset of the much appreciated and globally followed Donkey Kong Country OST recreation project led by NY-based composer and producer Jammin’ Sam Miller.
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