The Super NES was in trouble. It was 1994, and Nintendo's second home console had been on the market for three years. Three years marked by competition, heated rivalries against opposing companies on a scale that the Big N had never experienced before. Nintendo needed a hit. With its audience drained first by SEGA's Genesis and, then, by Sony's brand-new PlayStation, Nintendo needed a blockbuster game to grab gamers' attention again. Donkey Kong Country was it. Donkey Kong Country saved the system.
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Happy 20th Birthday, Super Famicom!
Nov 19, 2010 - Twenty years ago this weekend, Mario put on his first cape, Captain Falcon crossed his first finish line and the insatiably hungry Yoshi hatched out of his very first egg.
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E3 2010: Shigeru Miyamoto Likes Donkey Kong Country After All
Jun 17, 2010 - As E3 winds down, we're still heating things up with a new exclusive interview with the legendary Shigeru Miyamoto. Click in for his thoughts on the 3DS, his real opinion of the first Donkey Kong Country and a new bit of info on Pikmin 3.
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Genesis vs. SNES: By the Numbers
Mar 20, 2009 -
Every hardware generation has a winner. Sometimes that winner is globally recognized, such as the PlayStation 2, which crushed the competition like a steamroller with a nuclear-powered engine. Older gamers, though, remember previous generations where...
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What If Sony Never Got in the Game?
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About this Game
In this action-packed platformer -- the first to use ACM computer modeling for amazing character and background detail -- King K. Rool and his Kremlings have stolen Donkey Kong's banana hoard, and now it's up to Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong to get it back. With help from Cranky Kong, Candy Kong and Funky Kong (not to mention a bunch of animal friends), the two simian heroes will have to explore every inch of the island, from the treetops of the Kongo Jungle to the icy cliffs of Gorilla Glacier.
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