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Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong

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    Soundtrack is pretty good I guess?

    Invalid opinion. Soundtrack is peak.

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    One of my favorite albums of all time is the soundtrack to globulous, a sphere based tetris clone for early iphones which has since been discontinued. I've never played it, never will, the soundtrack is a stand alone journey! I would put Globulous OST up there with Enigma MCMXC a.D.

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    • sanctus@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

      You fucking idiot

      You absolute baffoon

      Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you

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      Yes, but... how likely do you think it is that Anon has even one friend?

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      • early_to_risa@sh.itjust.worksE [email protected]
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        No pre-order bonus

        No battle pass

        not even skins

        Video game disregarded.

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        • M [email protected]

          The reward for 101% was getting 101% ya muppet. Does this idiot think people play games for intangible pointless achievements instead of having fun? It must fucking suck going through life needing an extra reward for doing something fun.

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          https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xbox-360-kid

          This meme is almost 20 years old

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            There's a 1.2 version that fixed several bugs and glitches, including at least one warp

            Edit:
            Actually, this completely checks out! https://www.mariowiki.com/Donkey_Kong_Country_Competition_Cartridge

            The actual game consists of a few select levels from Donkey Kong Country with the addition of a point counter and a few minor tweaks to encourage scoring, the goal being to score as many points as possible. The tree house and banana cave at the start of Jungle Hijinxs have been disabled, and all of the animal tokens in the early levels have been replaced with Banana Bunches, making it impossible to reach the bonus round without the usage of a cheating device

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            TIL! At least they used the same version for everyone, including the later competition.

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            • professorproteus@lemmy.worldP [email protected]

              I always feel like Diddy controls better than Donkey somehow (even though that's probably untrue), and the fact that he holds barrels in front means you can safely run forward into an enemy without getting hurt. That made all the difference to me as a kid.

              Plus he wears a cool hat!

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              Diddy all day. His cartwheel felt so much snappier than Donkey's roll. I felt like I could jump farther with him.

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                I remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.

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                • M [email protected]

                  The reward for 101% was getting 101% ya muppet. Does this idiot think people play games for intangible pointless achievements instead of having fun? It must fucking suck going through life needing an extra reward for doing something fun.

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                  Meanwhile, the reward for 100%ing a game in 2025 is… a ribbon on your Steam account.

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                  • mudman@fedia.ioM [email protected]

                    Admittedly, this game doesn't look particularly good on a CRT, either.

                    The hype about the visuals being "3D" was so weird and misinformed, and you could absolutely tell at the time.

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                    It was pseudo-3D, I remember reading an article about how they made the sprites, but can't find that... wikipedia has

                    Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a mainstream home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics

                    and they used SGI workstations to create the models and animations before compressing/converting them to 2D sprites

                    Rare invested their NES profit in Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Challenge workstations with Alias rendering software to render 3D models. It was a significant risk, as each workstation cost £80,000.

                    (sharing bc I thought that's a crazy amount of money for 1992)

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                      has Diddy

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                      • sparrow_1029@programming.devS [email protected]

                        It was pseudo-3D, I remember reading an article about how they made the sprites, but can't find that... wikipedia has

                        Donkey Kong Country was one of the first games for a mainstream home video game console to use pre-rendered 3D graphics

                        and they used SGI workstations to create the models and animations before compressing/converting them to 2D sprites

                        Rare invested their NES profit in Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Challenge workstations with Alias rendering software to render 3D models. It was a significant risk, as each workstation cost £80,000.

                        (sharing bc I thought that's a crazy amount of money for 1992)

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                        Meanwhile, Nintendo positioned this method to compete with Aladdin, which simply hired Walt Disney animators to do the sprites.

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                          I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.

                          Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.

                          In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.

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                          • M [email protected]

                            I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.

                            Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.

                            In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.

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                            sega kid

                            shitty game takes

                            Many such cases

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                              The sound design was amazing. I can still hear the boing from jumping on a tire. The success jingle echos still.

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                                No pre-order bonus

                                No battle pass

                                not even skins

                                Video game disregarded.

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                                the chain smoking and hard drugs of video game's

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                                • M [email protected]

                                  I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.

                                  Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.

                                  In fact I'll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.

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                                  Uh... Perfect Dark and GoldenEye.

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                                    I know this is rage bait, but DKC was fantastic. I remember when Blockbuster video held a contest where you could play a game, and if you had the best score in the entire store you could win free movie rentals for a year. And if you did good enough, you could qualify for a “The Wizard” style video game competition in California. I played the shit out of this game to practice for weeks. I learned all the spots where you could drop down a hole and instead of dying, you get some rewards. I went in to this blockbuster ready to get my family a year of free movie rentals and possibly a trip to California. The first hole I dropped down I died. They had a modified version of the game that didn’t have these secrets in it. I was entirely unprepared. I played my 3 turns and did pretty terrible. After we left the blockbuster my parents had to run into a store and I just waited in the car. I literally cried cause I was so disappointed in how bad I did.

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                                    Just FYI. I lucked out and won my local Blockbuster stores version of this contest 🙂 Made it to the state finals, but was too young to compete and got kicked out. (I was 11.)
                                    But you better believe I rented a free movie every month. Sometimes got away with 2 haha 😂

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                                    • eightbitblood@lemmy.worldE [email protected]

                                      Just FYI. I lucked out and won my local Blockbuster stores version of this contest 🙂 Made it to the state finals, but was too young to compete and got kicked out. (I was 11.)
                                      But you better believe I rented a free movie every month. Sometimes got away with 2 haha 😂

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                                      I’m so jealous!

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                                        I can’t stand most platformers, but particularly older ones. It’s maddening to play within such small visual areas. If I have to consistently guess what’s on the other end of a jump in a game about controlling my jumps, you’ve fucked up completely as a developer. Donkey Kong is awful at letting you know what exists in front of you within a timely manner.

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                                          Yea, the graphics of this game (and Super Mario RPG) are nightmare inducing. I can only be onboard with anon about this. Plus, you had great point+click adventure games back then as well.

                                          Also soundtrack is mid. It has no Bad Religion or Less Than Jake. Fight me!

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