Donkey Kong Country... on the Game Boy Color?

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In the early 2000s, Nintendo and Rare teamed up to do the impossible: bring one of the biggest, most visually lush Super Nintendo games and squash it down into the underpowered Game Boy Color. Donkey Kong Country for the GBC is a fascinating demake, one that is surprisingly successful in many ways. It is also in many ways the culmination of the Game Boy's Donkey Kong Land series, sharing more than a few assets and music tracks with those games. Supplanted soon after by a vastly superior Game Boy Advance port, Donkey Kong Country for the Game Boy Color is a fascinating time capsule for a very specific moment in portable gaming history.

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@sadchap2780 28 күн бұрын

My mom bought me a gameboy color on accident at a garage sale. It came with a few games, including Donkey Kong Country, and I remember playing it for hours on end. Best accidental gift

@HybridAngelZero 8 ай бұрын

This port/demake has always been fascinating to me. It felt absolutely nutty what Game Boy could do in late in its life, I honestly hope this version of DKC ends up on Switch as well

@HatStackMike 7 ай бұрын

Donkey Kong Country on the GBC always seemed interesting to me from a technical standpoint. I think it pretty much pushed the GBC as far as it could go, and I have to give them credit for that. It's funny that DKC would get ported yet again just a few years later on GBA, which is the portable version of DKC that I went with. Nothing beats the original though, and I'm glad I can just load it up on my Switch nowadays if I want to play it on the go. Great video!

@ewanmonty6227 13 күн бұрын

That was a really good video, I'll have to buy me a copy of DKC GBC now. It is fascinating how they managed to port it to lower end hardware.

@linkthehero8431 Ай бұрын

I have all three versions on my Samsung Galaxy S8 (yeah, I'm still using a 2017 phone as I don't believe in upgrading when the phone I have still works and is still supported) thanks to the Internet Archive's complete ROM sets you can download in a ZIP folder, and I play through the GBC version a lot.

@piratebear3126 8 ай бұрын

When I was a kid I only had Donkey Kong Country 2 SNES, but had all 3 Land games and GBC DKC. Considering how different Donkey Kong Land 1 was to DKC compared to how amazingly faithful Donkey Kong Land 2-3 were, I am glad that DKC got its second chance at a faithful Gameboy game.

@PongbyAtari 6 ай бұрын

I'm going to give it a go on my Analogue Pocket I have played it years ago but doubt if I finished it.

@fredrick8691 8 ай бұрын

I'm gonna have to give it a play, I recently completed Super Mario Bros Deluxe and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

@YourTypicalMental 8 ай бұрын

Depending on who you ask, but Gameboy Color was considered a stopgap to extend the Gameboy's lifespan just a little longer while the Gameboy Advance was being worked on.

@yesdavidstevens 3 ай бұрын

This is a fantastic video, with high production quality that belies your subscriber count. Earned a subscribe from me. Keep up the great Nintendo content!

@Snk13_ty 2 ай бұрын

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