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Donkey Kong Country © 1994 Nintendo Company, Limited.
Donkey Kong Country is an incredible island adventure. This game was the first to feature Diddy Kong, who plays Donkey Kong's sidekick. Challenged by the crazed tribe of reptilian Kremlings, they endeavor to get back their stolen banana hoard! Armed with lightning-quick moves, chest-pounding muscle and awesome aerial acrobatics, the duo is ready to face their cunning adversaries.
Donkey Kong's quirky family offers assistance throughout the game. Besides Diddy Kong, you'll meet Funky Kong, Cranky Kong and Candy Kong. You'll also get help from some of DK's animal friends: Rambi the rhino, Expresso the ostrich, Enguarde the swordfish, Squawks the parrot, and Winky the frog. All of the animal friends have their own unique abilities. For example, Rambi the rhino is the only animal in the game that can break into hidden caves by just ramming into walls.
This game has over 30 levels, plus dozens of hidden caves and secret rooms -- more than 100 areas in all. Breakthrough Advanced Computer Modeling (ACM) provides fully-rendered graphics that were once thought impossible on a 16-bit system.
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Game ID: SNS-8X-USA
Released on November 25, 1994 in North America.
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.
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.
Re-releases:
[US] Donkey Kong Country [Model SNS-8X-USA-1]
Special releases:
[US] "Donkey Kong Country [Model DIS-SNS-8E-USA]"
Export releases:
[EU] Donkey Kong Country [Model SNSP-8X-NOE]
[JP] Super Donkey Kong [Model SHVC-8X]
[FR] Donkey Kong Country [Model SNSP-8X-FAH]
