Not only was I blown away by the graphics, bue the gameplay also captured my imagination, and the music will forever remain beloved in my mind. The biggest appeal was that it was one of the first Super NES games to feature pre-rendered CGI graphics, giving Donkey Kong a level of detail and character unlike anything else seen on the system. Developed by Rare, the game brought back Donkey Kong in a grand manner. That game was Donkey Kong Country for the Super NES. Pre-rendered what? I didn't understood what it meant, but damn did Donkey Kong Country look awesome! In other words, Mario was unrivaled… Until Nintendo released a very special game in the fall of 1994. Mario instead would be running wild in my heart and imagination, thanks to an amazing selection of games on the NES, Game Boy, and Super NES. But it would take years for me to have a connection with the character. The name was a parody of King Kong (another big part of Nintendo history, and another story to tell later), with Donkey representing the fact that he was as stubborn as a mule, and twice as dumb.ĭonkey Kong 3 was my most played Donkey Kong arcade game in my childhoodĪs a kid, I enjoyed the Donkey Kong arcade games, Donkey Kong 3 being my personal favorite. Popeye became the plucky plumber Mario, Olive Oyl became the damsel in distress, Pauline, and Brutus became the oafish bad guy Donkey Kong, a gorilla.
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The story goes that when Nintendo was denied the rights to the Popeye franchise (a story I will tell soon) Shigeru Miyamoto was forced to create new characters in absence of the iconic cartoon characters.