Donkey Kong Country

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This article is about the video game. For the video game series, see Donkey Kong
Country (series). For the television series, see Donkey Kong Country (TV series
). For the sequel, see Donkey Kong Country Returns.
Donkey Kong Country
Dkc snes boxart.jpg
North American box art
Developer(s)
Rare
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Director(s)
Tim Stamper[1]
Chris Stamper[1]
Designer(s)
Gregg Mayles[1]
Programmer(s) Chris Sutherland[1]
Artist(s)
Steve Mayles[1]
Kevin Bayliss[1]
Mark Stevenson[1]
Adrian Smith[1]
Writer(s)
Gregg Mayles
Dan Owsen[1]
Composer(s)
David Wise[1]
Eveline Fischer[1]
Robin Beanland[1]
Series Donkey Kong Country
Platform(s)
SNES,
Game Boy Color,
Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)
November 1994
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Genre(s)
Platformer
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platforming video game developed by Rare and publi
shed by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was first relea
sed in November 1994, and under the name Super Donkey Kong (??????????? Supa Don
ki Kongu?) in Japan. The game was later re-released for the Game Boy Color (2000
), Game Boy Advance (2003), Wii Virtual Console (2007), Wii U Virtual Console (2
014), and New Nintendo 3DS (2016) with a perfect pixel mode.
The game is set on "Donkey Kong Island" and centres around Donkey Kong and his n
ephew Diddy Kong, who must recover their stolen hoard of bananas from King K. Ro
ol and the Kremlings. Development of the game first began shortly after Rare's T
im and Chris Stamper ran experiments with a Silicon Graphics workstation, render
ing realistic 3D sprites. Nintendo became interested in Rare's work and soon acq
uired 49% of the company which culminated in the production of a new title using
Alias and SGI technology for the SNES console. The Stamper brothers expressed a
n interest to create a standalone Donkey Kong game, and assembled a team of 12 t
o work on the game over an 18-month development cycle.
Donkey Kong Country is the first Donkey Kong game that was not produced or direc
ted by Shigeru Miyamoto, the character's original creator. It was directed by Ti
m Stamper instead, although Miyamoto was still involved with the project. Follow
ing an intense marketing campaign, Donkey Kong Country received critical acclaim
and more than nine million copies were sold worldwide, making it the second-bes
t-selling SNES game.