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Donkey Kong Racing was developed by Rare as a console sequel to Diddy Kong Racing. [103] It was a racing game in which players rode on animals rather than vehicles. [104] Following the Microsoft acquisition, Rare attempted to rework Donkey Kong Racing as a Sabreman game for the Xbox and Xbox 360 before canceling it entirely. [104] [105]
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive arcade gaming directed by Seth Gordon. It follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the high score record for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong from Billy Mitchell. (Mitchell would be exposed as a cheater a decade later.)
Donkey Kong Country introduced Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong's sidekick and nephew. Diddy's design was based on a spider monkey; [133] he was created as a redesign of Donkey Kong Jr. but retooled into a separate character at Nintendo's request. [36] As a result, Donkey Kong Jr. has made few appearances since Country. [129]
Donkey Kong was one of the most widely cloned video games in the early 1980s, along with Space Invaders (1978) and Pac-Man (1980). By 1983, Donkey Kong clones had become available on various different platforms. [116] The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers lists 17 different Donkey Kong clones released for various home platforms. [136]
Donkey Kong Jr. received an award in the category of "1984 Best Videogame Audio-Visual Effects (16K or more ROM)" at the 5th annual Arkie Awards, where the judges described it as "great fun", and noted that the game was successful as a sequel–"extend[ing] the theme and present[ing] a radically different play-action" than its predecessor ...
In Mario Kart DS, Donkey Kong's first exclusive kart, the Rambi Rider, has Rambi's head on it. Expresso - A sneaker-wearing common ostrich who originated in Country and can run fast. He can also fly for a short amount of time. Expresso is also featured in Land and a minigame in the Game Boy Advance re-release of Country 2.
Since its inception, the company has produced various titles in a wide variety of genres and on numerous gaming systems, mostly from Nintendo and Microsoft. The company is best known for its platform games , which include the Donkey Kong Country series and the Banjo-Kazooie series, and for its Nintendo 64 first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and ...
[28] [29] Leigh Loveday, the writer of Donkey Kong Country 2, prefacing his statement with "As far as I know", said that he is a grown-up version of Donkey Kong Jr. [30] Nintendo of Europe's website also states that the modern DK is DK Jr., [31] but the Game Boy Advance versions of Donkey Kong Country [32] and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's ...