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The Land games translated the pre-rendered graphics of its sister series as well as it could to the Game Boy's small, monochrome screen and usually featured new levels.Ī Racing Game Spin-Off appeared as Diddy Kong Racing. The game also adds a new boss, Kroctopus, and a new area, Pacifica, containing six additional levels.Įach SNES installment also had a Game Boy counterpart Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong Land 2, and Donkey Kong Land III. All of Funky's challenges must be completed to achieve the highest percentage, but Cranky and Swanky's games need only to be won once. There is no scrapbook feature this time around. (In the port of 2, there is an additional mini-game at Klubba's Kiosk called Bag a Bug, but playing it is completely optional.) The GBA port of Donkey Kong Country 3 contains the mini-games Funky's Rentals, Cranky's Dojo, and Swanky's Dash. In both games, all the mini-games must be won each time they're encountered and the scrapbook must be completely filled in order to achieve the highest completion percentage. There is also a new boss, Kerozene, to fight.

The GBA port of Donkey Kong Country 2 contains the mini-games Expresso Racing and Funky's Flight Challenges, in addition to bringing back the scrapbook feature.

Also in the GBA port, the player can fill the Kongs' scrapbook by finding cameras and performing in-game feats of varying difficulty. Funky's Fishing Game is also seen in the 2003 Game Boy Advance port, though Candy's Challenge is replaced by Candy's Dance Studio. The 1998 Game Boy Color port of Donkey Kong Country (not to be confused with Donkey Kong Land, which we'll get to in a minute) has two extra mini-games: Funky Kong's Fishing Mini Game and Candy's Challenge, where you perform in luck-based tasks similar to the various Bonus Stages. Only 2,500 copies of the game are known to exist, and it has since become a highly valued collector's item. After the competition ended, Nintendo took back the carts and sold them to subscribers of Nintendo Power.

Swanky Kong, who hosted a quiz game and a carnival attraction in the second and third games, respectively, allowing players to earn additional lives.Īlso of note is that during the first game's heyday, the Blockbuster World Video Game Championships II were given an authorized romhack of the game called Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge, which basically turned the game into a competition to grab as many bananas as possible within a time limit of five minutes, with only a few levels available and several tweaks to encourage scoring.

Having passed away after the events of DKC3, Wrinkly appeared in spirit form starting with Donkey Kong 64, where she provided hints.

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Wrinkly Kong, Cranky's wife, who in the second game ran a school called Kong College which gave players tips about how to play the game, and where players could also save their game in the second and third installments.In DK64, she supplies the Kongs with instruments that help solve puzzles. Candy Kong, who acted as a save point in the first game.

In DK64, he instead provides the Kongs' weapons. Funky Kong, whose jet barrels allow the Kongs to exit the current world and travel to different ones without beating its boss.In Donkey Kong 64, he provides power-ups to the Kongs to help them progress. Cranky Kong, who reminisces about the old days of video games and gives advice in the first and second games.This game unites a team of Kongs (Donkey, Diddy, Dixie's sister Tiny, Kiddy's brother Chunky, and odd-man-out Lanky, while other familiar faces such as Cranky and Funky lend a hand along the way) who set out to find a series of 200 solid-gold giant bananas and the missing blueprints to the Blast-O-Matic in an effort to trounce the Kremlings for the final time. Figuring that if he and his people can't have Donkey Kong's island, nobody can, he steers an enormous high-tech warship next to it and plans to blast it right off the face of the Earth with his secret weapon, the Blast-O-Matic. Donkey Kong 64, from 1999, brought the series into the third dimension.

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