Trivia
It was #17 in FLUX Magazine's (Issue #4) Top 100 Video Games of All-Time.
It received five awards in VideoGames magazine (March 1995) 1994 Game Awards:
- Game of the Year
- Best SNES Game
- Best Action Game
- Best Graphics
- Best Gameplay
The game received two awards in GameFan's 1994 "Megawards" (Vol 3, Iss. 1)
- Best SNES Action/Platform Game of the Year
- Best SNES Special Effects
An animated TV series was based on the characters and world of the Donkey Kong Country game. Running from 1997-2000, the series featured all of the cast from the game plus additional new characters. The series was animated with CGI, and was not very successful commercially in North America.
Contributed by
So Hai 
(290) on Apr 03, 2008.
The Game Boy Advance version has the contrast cranked up to make the game easier to see on the darker LCD screen.
Donkey Kong Country: First game to feature the new ACM graphics technique. ACM was a new graphics technique which allowed rendering of sprites, which made the graphics for the 16 bit games that used it (the DKC games, Killer Instinct and more) extremely detailed.
Got a full 100 % in the Swedish magazine Super Power. The game was rated in the one day they got to borrow the early cassette. The reviewer today claims that he committed a breach of duty, and was completely astounded by the graphics so he couldn't make a proper review of the game.
When this game first was presented most people took it as a game for what was at the time called Project Reality (i.e. Nintendo 64). People were really shocked when it turned out to be a game for the SNES.
This game spawned in 1997 a short lived animated series with the same name by Nelvana. The interesting thing is that the series was completely computer-generated (mostly with SoftImage for those who care) and emulated the look of the original game.
Contributed by
Zovni (9139) on Nov 26, 2003.
Cranky Kong is actually the "original" Donkey Kong from the early 80s and will drone on and on about how games don't need 16-bits and etc.
Contributed by
WildKard (11891) on Sep 21, 2003.
The music that Kranky Kong plays on the Victrola during the intro is a rendition of the actual Donkey Kong music from the original 8-bit Nintendo game.
