Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country: 25 Years Later Back in 1994, Nintendo was struggling with their 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which wasn’t selling as well as they’d hoped it would. With…

At last year’s E3, Sony announced that their beloved character Crash Bandicoot was returning to PlayStation in the form of a remaster of the first three games that were originally…

Kirby Star Allies is an enjoyable experience that looks pretty good, plays great, and yet is wholly unremarkable.

Named after its central processing unit, the Nintendo 64 would bring three dimensions to previously two-dimensional franchises. Some of the most influential games would appear on the Nintendo 64 — some…

The world of ROM hacks can be a scary place. Diving head first into the community with little prior knowledge is a frustrating experience. There are tons of hacks for…

Donkey Kong Country is a game held in high regard and with good reason. It pushed the boundaries of what the Super Nintendo was capable of and the follow-up Donkey…

It’s been almost three years since Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS was released and with rumors emerging about a possible enhanced port being developed for the Switch,…

This week, we continue our Donkey Kong retrospective with the sequel to Rare’s spectacular hit Donkey Kong Country and let you know if we think Diddy’s Kong Quest exceeds the…

In 1994, Rare recast a classic Nintendo villain as the titular hero Donkey Kong Country and gave him a unique set of skills and his very own sidekick, Diddy Kong. Created…

People tend to forget this largely because now it’s considered the greatest game console of all time, but there was a time where the Super Nintendo was nowhere near as…

July 9 marked the 35th anniversary of one of the true milestones in video gaming history. On that fateful date in 1981, the original cabinet version of Nintendo’s seminal Donkey Kong arrived…

“If you listen, you can hear it coming…” Reggie Fils-Aime’s famous words before the reveal of Donkey Kong Country Returns on the E3 show floor could not have been more accurate,…

The idea of bringing back older games and genres from the dead and giving them a fresh coat of paint has been one of the most predominant and successful notions…