Trivia
Animated Series
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 (mostly with SoftImage for those who care), and was not very successful commercially in North America.
Board Game
In 1995,
Milton Bradley combined two of the great youth trends of the '90s and brought together the world of
Donkey Kong Country and
a POG-slamming game.
Cranky Kong
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.
Game Boy Advance Version
The Game Boy Advance version has the contrast cranked up to make the game easier to see on the darker LCD screen.
Soundtrack
The music that Cranky Kong plays on the Victrola during the intro is a rendition of the actual
Donkey Kong music from the original 8-bit Nintendo game.
Super Power Review
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.
Technology
Donkey Kong Country was the 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. When it 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.
Awards
- FLUX Magazine
- Issue #4 - #17 in the "Top 100 Video Games of All-Time" list
- GameFan
- 1994 (Vol.3, Iss. 1) - Best SNES Action/Platform Game of the Year 1994
- 1994 (Vol.3, Iss. 1) - Best SNES Special Effects
- VideoGames
- March 1995 - Game of the Year 1994
- March 1995 - Best SNES Game in1994
- March 1995 - Best Action Game in 1994
- March 1995 - Best Graphics in 1994
- March 1995 - Best Gameplay in 1994
Information also contributed by
Alexander Michel,
Andreas Vilén,
Big John WV,
Pseudo_Intellectual,
So Hai,
WildKard and
Zovni
