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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]
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. [113] The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers lists 17 different Donkey Kong clones released for various home platforms. [132]
Donkey Kong Country [b] is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). 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. Rool and his army, the Kremlings.
During the development of Donkey Kong Country, Diddy was originally conceived as an updated version of Donkey Kong Jr. (Donkey Kong's son). Not liking the radical changes Rare had made to Donkey Kong Jr., Nintendo told them either create a design that was closer to Donkey Kong Jr.'s original appearance or make their design an entirely new ...
While the 1980s games' Donkey Kong and the modern Donkey Kong share the same name, the manual for Donkey Kong Country and subsequent games portray the former as Cranky Kong, the latter's grandfather, with the exception of Donkey Kong 64 and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, in which Cranky is depicted as his father, alternatively portraying the ...
Donkey Kong 64 is a 1999 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.It is the only Donkey Kong game to feature 3D gameplay. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player explores themed levels to collect items and rescue his kidnapped family members from King K. Rool.
Steven J. Wiebe (/ ˈ w iː b i /; born January 3, 1969) is an American two-time world champion of the video game Donkey Kong, most recently holding the title from September 20, 2010, to January 10, 2011, with a high score of 1,064,500. Wiebe was the first person to achieve over a million points on Donkey Kong, with 1,006,600 on July 4, 2004.
The game introduces Donkey Kong's son, the diaper-wearing Donkey Kong Jr. [123] [124] Mario, Pauline, Donkey Kong, and Jr. return in the 1994 Game Boy Donkey Kong, [125] in which Mario again must rescue Pauline from the Kongs. [32] The Game Boy game was the first Donkey Kong game to depict Donkey Kong wearing a red necktie bearing his initials ...