You play as the tie wearing gorilla Donkey Kong and his monkey sidekick Diddy Kong. The evil crocodile King K. Rool and his Kremlings have stolen King Kong's bananas and placed them in various places on the island. You have to jump, swing, roll, and climb your way to the end of each level, where there's always a boss waiting for you. You can also ride on various animals. A rhino, ostrich, sword fish and even a giant frog!
There's one stage that's right out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where you ride a mine cart and have to jump over dangerous obstacles. I remember how hard that stage was, and how relieved my brother and I felt when we finally managed to beat it. It's probably the hardest part in the whole game. And the final boss is a bit of a jerk...they probably fooled a lot of kids with the false end credits!
The music is very good. The theme from the snow level sounds "snowy", and the forest theme "foresty". As a kid, the game over theme used to scared me. The game over screen didn't exactly help. The graphics were extremely good for a SNES game back then. It probably won't impress anyone today, but so what? At least the gameplay is good.
One of the best things about Donkey Kong is its simplicity. You just have to push a few buttons to control our heroes and you don't have to watch any long, boring cutscenes to get to the next level. I don't have a short attention span, but when I buy a game, I just want a game.
After all these years, Donkey Kong Country and it's sequels on the Super Nintendo are still some of the best video games ever made.
There's one stage that's right out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where you ride a mine cart and have to jump over dangerous obstacles. I remember how hard that stage was, and how relieved my brother and I felt when we finally managed to beat it. It's probably the hardest part in the whole game. And the final boss is a bit of a jerk...they probably fooled a lot of kids with the false end credits!
The music is very good. The theme from the snow level sounds "snowy", and the forest theme "foresty". As a kid, the game over theme used to scared me. The game over screen didn't exactly help. The graphics were extremely good for a SNES game back then. It probably won't impress anyone today, but so what? At least the gameplay is good.
One of the best things about Donkey Kong is its simplicity. You just have to push a few buttons to control our heroes and you don't have to watch any long, boring cutscenes to get to the next level. I don't have a short attention span, but when I buy a game, I just want a game.
After all these years, Donkey Kong Country and it's sequels on the Super Nintendo are still some of the best video games ever made.