So true, this needs more upvotes.

@@8bitneslife1985I take it you are a redditor?

@@Alluxing Actually, no, but I do own a fedora, so I shall award you partial credit, LOL!

i had a friend that beat the game as kid. Several times. Well he played a lot

@@8bitneslife1985 😐

If donkey Kong 64 is so good why isn't there a donkey Kong 65

Still waiting on Donkey Kong 65

Lol the actual reason it's called DK 64 is because it takes 64 days to beat the game

Lol, that sounds like something Videogamedunkey would say, did he said that?

@@misterree to speedrun this game*

Same, rewatching these scenes and hearing all the music and sound effects brought me right back to my living room in 2000, eerie feelings, very melancholic.

Played and beat it as a kid circa 2000. I agree, to this day especially the second world’s creepy atmosphere still gets me uncomfortable. I think it’s the Aztec influence and it overall feeling so empty, like the people who built it also disappeared. Same with the Jack-in-the-box boss.

Not sure about the no horror part lol. The boss of the Toy Factory level scared the living hell out of me as a child. Everything you said about the music is dead on though.

There's a great video with the Game Grumps somewhere where they play a Banjo Kazooie game (maybe Tooie?) with the composer for that series and they just talk about the music and stuff. It's with Jontron, find it and check it out. Idk if it's the same composer as DK64.

I agree. I definitely had that experience.

Underneath the sarcastic comedy genius, he's a genius gamer. And knows what he's talking about

You must be watching some shitty hour long videos

thats why he always gets 100% likes, literally impossible to hate him

Yep. Too many KZfaqrs drag things out. Dunkey gives you 5 minutes of magic and then ✌️

This man does not miss does that make donkey the James Cameron of KZfaq? Yes.

The best memes are great content in their own right.

You're surprised the best KZfaqr on KZfaq did that? why? Nobody bets against donkey. Not if they're smart.

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*kongtent

These kind of games are better than modern ones. It's a more entertaining topic than the hogwash today.

I mean gta vice city was my childhood, Because I didn't even beat that game till I was 20 lol

I always think of how much better my childhood would’ve been if I went out and did team sports and activities like a normal kid but no, video games were basically my existence til I was 17 lol

Mine was banjo and Zelda oracle of seasons. I played banjo from like 5 years old till I was 17 a spring break with my cousin we sat down looked up the wiki and completed it in a marathon session took turns until we finished it then did number 2 which I never owned. Oracle of seasons was from like 7 years old till I was 15 looked up the wiki to beat that as well. Lmao I'm not great with puzzle games. My 7 year old son beat breath of the wild with light guidance from me though. He definitely doesn't get that from me lol.

I beat it once and then replayed the King K Rool fight over and over, dozens of times. I loved it. This game was my high as a child. I would never have the patience to play it as a grown man but also pointing out its flaws while being spoiled as a 2022 gamer is silly. The game was incredible back then.

@@FordFalcon54 wait seasons? That one was the more combat/adventure focus one.

Fastest times are more than 5h and the rules say that you must hate yourself to submit. So, yeah

@@JuukaRockthat is longer than Elden Ring All Achievements

@@karelbilek9121 but not longer than Elden Ring all bosses.

@@karelbilek9121 But shorter than Hollow Knight all achievements, probably.

@@zekrinealfa1113 you seem to be right

yea it was great even the simpler arena one was prob our favorite

Go play it again now. You will realize that it was actually unbelievably bad, but we were kids and that is all we had.

@@Tkon321yea you gotta judge games for when it came out and it was an awesome experience you really couldn't ask for more such charm and my favorite final boss fight on the n64.

@@Tkon321 it is absolutely that bad. I played it too. Goldeneye is terrible too unless you one shot kill. I loved them both as a kid and think they were good for the time (multiplayer games were basically just being invented)

@@shadoninja I still regularly play N64 games on multiplayer that I think have held up, Goldeneye may be clunky but Perfect Dark is great

What are you talking about? This game came out in 1964 it says right in the game's title.

@@SBRS47, Naw man, video games weren’t even invented untill the late 90’s, so that just goes to show you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

@@SBRS47 I'm afraid that you're misunderstanding, the game comes out in 2064, dunkey just got a very early access.

@@EggscellentTree are you stupid? 2064 isn't even here yet, we're in 2022! This game came out in the year 64, as stated in it's title. I can't believe the lack of brains on some people

yeah please type that on every video, classic comment

Bro it honestly plays in my head at least once a month and I haven’t played the game in 20 years

If you know the words, you can join in too

whenever i would play this game with my five cousins as kids we would collectively rap along with the intro in unison. miss those times

I skipped it because my family hated that it swore.

It said hell just once though

literally me LOL

I bet it with my siblings there was five of us so it really made everything manageable

@@SomeCrow-rq5dzthat’s awesome

Love reading this! I remember not being able to beat the first boss even for like a year! And then not being able to rescue tiny kong for months. Was a 4-5 year endeavor for my sisters and I that I’ll always cherish

That's how I did it. As a kid I quit on the haunted level. I finished it 12 years later

I have the same story. I couldn’t beat the old school DK arcade machine as a kid and it was a hard block to getting to fight K. Rool. I beat the whole game but couldn’t get that last part. About 5 years ago I booted it up with my kid and easily beat it lol

Good on you my man, nothing more nostalgic than popping in an old classic you've played for years but never finished, only to grind that bitch out and finish it

Man if I still had my 64 you know I'd play donkey Kong again, and some goldeneye :( I'm jealous fr

It was just too much! BK 1&2 were perfect, but this was insanity. Still loved it as a kid though.

@@Kiosade Bonkey Kong?

@@r0conscious Bonkey Kong

@@Kiosade even BK2 felt a bit much

@@chillmolder Ehh I beat Banjo Tooie 100% at least twice before. I never beat DK64 as a kid, and when I tried to beat it as an adult I lost interest halfway through. The fact you NEED to get everything is just insane.

Lanky is awesome my favorite Kong has been since I got the game when I was 5

Everyone else is great and Lanky Kong sucks ass

Dude that video .. when he calls DK to complain and its all compressed monkeynoises ... i die

You told me to act goofy for the video. I didn’t know that was gonna be my thing! Why is every character so cool and Lanky Kong just sucks ass?

@@YouKnowIBePro News flash DK, if anyone shoots you then it's going to hurt, that doesn't make you special

I appreciate that everyone agreed never to do that again though

@@MarcHendry yeah no one want to do over 1000 collectibles anymore lol

Crash 4 didn't beat it? Damn

Maybe for a platformer or offline game. World of Warcraft has over 10,000 collectible item appearances alone. I imagine other games that have been constantly churning out content over decades can boast similar numbers.

@@Cognocis You seem to be confusing collectables with microtransactions.

Even Rubberducky 6?

@@FreightmareFTW I'm gonna go out of my way to sin now

Speedrunners are built different.

So interesting, it was in the super tall grass and the only way to ever find it was if you noticed your player SLIGHTLY elevate up while walking over it 😂 the developers were on one

Where was it?

@@seronymus It's in Fungi Forest near the Mill, just walk around in the tall grass until your Kong pops up a little then do the shockwave there

people knew about it because when you walk over the pile of dirt it was in donkey kong raises up like 3 whole feet

It's my all time favorite 64 game and 3d platformer

And I still go back and play it every now and then, It will forever hold that place as my favorite insanely long and impossible frustrating masterpiece

Never played it, but you can tell how genuine and accurate dunkeys commentary on the game is. He clearly knows what he's talking about.

Reminds me of grandma's house. Drinking milkshakes,, eating cookies and playing DK64....

Got stuck on the 4th level as a kid, then the 7th level when I replayed it a decade ago. Might snag the 64 from the 'rents and try beating it finally

How long does it take to finish thw game?

But it's still an amazing game

@@mudshrooze it’s a good game

By this logic this makes Banjo Kazooie a 5/10!

@@TheDavidish it's an alright game

@@TheDavidish it's a great game dont be a dick.

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I hear big mode is trying to release the best knack game yet (they’re all amazing) by early next year!

Goat? His name is clearly video game donkey.

He’s actually got a publishing label now, so theoretically, he could publish Knack 3. Just gotta buy the rights from Sony first.

@@Ckoz2829 that would be hilarious lmao and it would sell better too

Super satisfying to punch the fuck out of him as Chunky too

Dk is better than 5v1ing a mf tho

I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed this is the actual Donkey Kong December

uhhh

@@fwoqma To each their own

Memory unlocked. I guess I did jump straight from this after inexplicably being able to beat it as a little kid to fucking Zelda Gaiden lol

Sucks that they haven't since Playtonic is a thing

Add an option to change Kong's whenever and easily the best game there is

Have you played Donkey Kong Frozen Ape yet?

I raged harder at DK64 than at any other game as a kid. My parents hated it

I see what you did there

It wasn't even the level themes though. Just the lobbies' itterations of the main-isles theme. xP

Grant Kirkhope is ridiculously good at what he does.

@@IAmRodyle You should play the Mario + Rabbid games then. Mario music mixed with Kirkhope's style is pure bliss.

Straight up, you have to master each section to get to the next, and it fucks with your head each time. A gauntlet to be sure.

I never played the game before! But after watching this video, my first casual playthrough just turned into a causal playthrough!

26 minutes?! It took me a good 32 hours! Que-EST-ce-que WHAT THE FRIK?!

@@deejayguppy6087 Lots of glitches skipping most of the game. The 100% speedrun is 6 hours.

@@hyperteleXii 6 hours, to me, is still insane. It takes me roughly 6.5 or 7 hours to simply beat Super Mario 64. So, DK64 in 6. Wow. Edit: I kinda skipped the part where you said it's cuz of glitches. My bad, hypertele. I mek mishtake. 😁

When I was a kid I'm pretty sure I had like a 100 hours until I reached the final K Rool battle

the indie games have us covered. the AAA industry is drying up and dying.

Fresh 3D environments and you could feel the creativity oozing out of every game

Mario Odyssey is a pretty good 3D platformer.

@@joedelisle4388 depends, Mario and Zelda are still as good as ever, Fromsoftware is releasing masterpiece after masterpiece ever since Demon’s Souls, Santamonica Studios has succesfully revived the God of War franchise, Rockstar and Platinum are making good games as well. I’m getting tired of this whole “AAA is so bad, indie games are the best”. Like for every good indie game there are 1000 indie games that suck ass. Yes, there are AAA games out there that aren’t very exciting like Assasin’s Creed but overall the big dog developers are still delivering great games.

@@frantschou2369 Zelda died for me after Twilight Princess, Paper Mario was ruined after TTYD (SPM was fun but I considered it a spinoff), basically only thing left is the Super Mario series.

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@Karl Marx That was not very socialist of you Papi Marx 🧐

Terrifying

Genuinely agree but they need to do it right. If they just make what is basically DK 64-2 I'd have to seriously consider not buying it.

For real. This was peak collectathon game, after this and Banjo-Tooie it all went downhill.

I’d like to know more about what you mean when you say you “mess around with the songs” that sounds very interesting.

@@doorknobDingus I play them by ear! The music from most video games of that era won't challenge me on a music theory level, so they're relatively boring. But Grant Kirkhope's music has interesting chord changes and accidentals which keep me perplexed and intrigued. His music is highly original and challenging to figure out to a classically trained ear, which makes it fun for me!

"Pushed the boundaries of what could be accomplished in the 90s" Did it? Graphically it's worse than all arcade games from the era. In terms of gameplay, it's less deep than many titles from the 80s and even some titles from the 70s. I could certainly see how it pushed the boundaries of what was possible on a Nintendo 64, but the PSX also existed during the 90s. I know I'm comparing Apples and Bananas here but stand DK64 next to something like Vagrant Story and I think you'll see what I mean.

@@pauldee1577 Do you have any advice for where to start with learning music theory?

Same. It's fucking great, despite some parts of it being fucking annoying as FUCK 🤣 Like the beetle race, the DK arcade game (which I got better at), and some of the bs minigames

But have you tried replaying it? That will make you think twice

It's got a few annoying parts but overall it has so much charm that modern games are lacking in. I'd put it in my top 20 favorite 3D platformers of all time; maybe even my top 10.

​@@jakobschulthess2573 No one is the same. If you don't enjoy replaying it now that is fine but others can enjoy it and still do.

They should have paid you rent for beating DK64 for them.

i dont think itd even fly back then, the ESRB just never made it far enough to see it.

Humongah dungah

Very True.

Hope you're doing alright mate

watching dunkeys videos just makes me happy and changes my mood. im so glad he still keeps his format years and years later

Yes!

i rarely did the missions, exploring was enough for me! i loved it, collecting all good the bananas, finding secrets. The island with the monster in the cage filled me with a morbid curiosity, and a sadness as he cried. King K Rules HQ absolutely terrified me. so i was content with the DK island

Thank you for your insight.

I never beat the puzzle monster

Ok

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@@Synday bro is speaking like a mr saturn from earthbound