MB Video Game Classics: Donkey Kong Country
 

It's Sunday. I've decided I'll either post threads on Sunday or Monday. Doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Anyway. Vote!

Owned and played it before Sherri was born. A CLASSIC!

Wasn't she born in the 80s?

Never really played most Nintendo games since I never had one of those consoles. Even as a kid, all the other kids I knew either had Sega machines, Amiga 500's or Commodore 64 computers.

1983. The original DK came out in 81.

Indeed. Definitely one of the best games to come out back in the day, and could easily still hold up as a solid platformer today.

Donkey Kong COUNTRY not Donkey Kong.

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5/5 except for when the birds call you a spic when you jump on their head.

Nice to see consistency in the votes for this one. It is indeed a true classic.

I havent ever played this but if its like Donkey kong (Which I love),I know its good!

I voted 5/5

What an informed opinion.

Not even Dwn could give this one a vote less than 5/5.

It's nothing like Donkey Kong. Bro if you don't even know what Donkey Kong Country is then you don't have any business having opinions on post-80s games. You're simply too ignorant.

DKC2 is superior but this still gets a 5 from me

Im sorry Batlord..... I guess it isnt as good as donkey kong??

Im sorry dues :)

You can't say whether or not it is unless you play it.

Yea I suppose your right :)

Man, that "games I should play but haven't" list is too long for one lifetime.

The og DKC trilogy are the kind of games that I'll play anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Tight controls, great graphics, fun level designs, awesome music, and a barrelful of charm. 10/10

Hit boxes are more ****ed than you remember. Or maybe it's cause we're playing on that new mini Super Nintendo that keeps all the games on it digitally.

Hit boxes aren't the kind of thing an emulator will screw up, so if they're ****ed when you're playing the game now, they were always ****ed.

Just replayed and beat all three games on the SNES like a month ago, and didn't have any issues. Hitboxes were fine. Rare was actually pretty lenient with them, and let players get away with minor brush ups against bad guys. Time your jumps so that you land on the enemy's head, not their face, always hold down the roll button to sprint (especially when you're flying around in the parrot stages), and keep on flexing against K. Rool.

The hitboxes are excellent in those games. I replay at least DKC2 yearly and it holds up as well as any 20+ year old game you will find

Like I said though, we aren't playing it from cartridge. For us it's either been really forgiving or really brutal. It's usually the birds though. Like a little pixel of wing would pop up from under a ledge and kill you. Much worse for Donkey Kong than for Diddy though.

I wish it hadn't been over two decades since I played a DKC game or else I'd have something to actually say. I can't even vote cause I don't remember how much I liked it.

Every time I get that mini game where you have to spell Kong with the barrels I always accidentally spell koon.

Making monkeys spell "koon" is ****ed up.

I can guarantee you probably enjoyed it. DKC was seriously fantastic for its time.

I know full well I liked it or I wouldn't have played so much of the first two and I'm pretty sure some of the third. I do not have vivid memories of the games at this point but I'm sure if I played them I'd start getting hardcore flashbacks.

I imagine so. I haven't played it in so long but I wouldn't give up the opportunity to play it again.

I just wish I hadn't lost my platformer mojo with age. That **** is hard now.

I've found some difficulty with modern day platformers but I honestly think I'd have more trouble with older ones. I'm so used to platformer games now just having very tight and precise controls. It'd be extremely difficult to go back to clunky controls.

You can totally get it back - simply by playing more games like that.
I thought I was rusty at action games too, but then earlier this year, I started playing arcade shoot 'em ups again. A lot. After a while, I started beating all of my old high-scores. So much for getting rusty with age - and I'm older than you.

I'm sure my reaction time will get worse with age, but right now, it's good enough. Just gotta get those routines into your fingers again.

Just bought Donkey Kong Country Returns and No More Heroes. Verily, twill be a good night.