Donkey Kong Country

... He's got his tie. Now he's got his briefcase. Off he goes. And there will always be a little bit of my brain that thinks about Donkey Kong's human briefcase in Smash Brothers. I see now how this this whole top five is basically a bit to dunk on the Donkey Kong Country Games. I can see this happening in real time now, Matthew. ...

where you met like almost like sonic cd where like you go fast you go through time i don't want that i don't want i don't want anything that crazy just give you different backgrounds different areas that's cool uh mine carts in different different centuries i could take that um i i do like donk kong country i would say though if you're gonna list um donkey kong and and um that the mario games is being solitude games i have to say the more recent rayman game is also very good at what they do so i would put those…

... The rare crew deserves a huge shout out for this game. The game design for this was done by Greg males. And he worked as a designer on the original battle toes for the NES. He was also the game designer on Donkey Kong country and banjo Kazooie. And he designed Sabre Wolf and killer instinct. I mean, I guess that's a pretty okay resume. And I'm sorry, I just did look it up. It was the greatest grave fillers and they list the total number. So not like points, but the total number of kills. Yeah. Which is normal…

... I thought he was a frog as well, but he's a Kremlin, which would be the bad guys from the Donkey Kong country games. And then, of course, Diddy Kong himself, Banjo and Kanko. ...

... I will say, 'cause I think you added this, Victor, the Donkey Kong Country games, they came out to the GBA and they had, obviously David Weiss's score is iconic, especially on the first game. ...

... Like Killer Instinct. Donkey Kong Country. Yeah. ...

... All right. I have one clearly is that that first Donkey Kong country I love and I'll get on there is like, I'm going to play through it. ...

And then, yeah, so for Super Nintendo, it was a gift for the family from the uncle, and that would have been a link to the past, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World, and those were like, those were the good ones. ...

... But I mean, this was, this was a game that was very easy for my kids when I were a bit younger to play with me when I got the SNES Mini versus something like Contra, which they used to come play or Street Fighter. This was the game that we, and even Donkey Kong Country, this was the game that sort of we, we played a lot of together because it was very simple, much like all Mario Kart games are for them to pick up, play, get it, understand it, and just be able to compete at least semi competently. ...

... Um, I just like games where you can bash the shit out of things and boy can you bash the shit out of things in Donkey Kong country Bonanza. I just love tunneling under the levels themselves, like turning into these weird ass animals with these weird ass soundtracks with them. ...

obvious, you know, kind of like, takeaways that seemingly obvious that what I remember, like, I remember like these guys have like, you know, shipped millions and millions of games in their careers. And I remember them saying to me like the reason the sequels are always better is because you're basically making the first game again. Right. Like say like Donkey Kong Country 2 is one of my favorite games, it's been the first we made the first game again. It's that's the that's the and everyone tells you this and…

you're in completely changes or like you'll be doing something different, like roughly halfway through, you're suddenly writing a mine cart and that leads into the boss fight, which you fight while writing the mine cart. And that's really, really cool. I do like that. Other than Indiana Jones, this came out before Donkey Kong country. What games had mine cart rides that were a level before this? I'm sure there were others. Didn't DuckTales have the mine cart? Yes. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we all know that…