Talk about the Donkey Kong Country (SNES/GBA) and Donkey Kong Land (SGB).

The series was the first to use pre-rendered 3D graphics, courtesy of Silicon Graphics, which gave the introduction of realistic graphics and 3D into the video game industry.

It was also one of the first platformers to introduce a co-op play mode - two players on the same screen.

The story for the SNES games are original and the series has not suffered from the usual 'milking' made of some other platform games (such as Mario).

The most memorable thing for many people though from this series is the music. Composed by David Wise for the first two games (he also recomposed the GBA version of DKC3), everyone seems to have loved the music.

While the game doesn't seem to end up much on the Overrated games point, unlike some extremely popular and well-liked games, people some see the first as overrated compared to its sequels, but otherwise they are actually enjoyable and not just liked for their groundbreaking graphics, gameplay and audio.
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From what was a barely known (except for Battletoads) British company (Rare), when DKC was released, they were one of the most famous until 2002, when Microsoft decided to buy them - because Microsoft are too lazy to make their own games, they simply buy their surrounding companies.
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The Super Game Boy's versions were based on their respective DKC games, but also had similar graphics however toned down. These games were nearly as enjoyable as the original versions, and obviously they can be played anywhere as long as you had up to a GBA for portable use.

One irritiating thing is where Microsoft ordered to take down DKC from the Wii Virtual Console, because of who developed it. This is one of the worst things to happen on VC, definitely.

Discuss here. Everyone's a DKC fanboy/fangirl right? (Except this so-called 'modern youth' who spend their time bashing any video game more than 12 months old.)

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