![]() The whole "gorilla kidnaps girlfriend" plotline is a little convoluted, but what was remarkable at the time was that the video game had a story at all. The game was Donkey Kong, and Nintendo's success with this franchise is in part due to storytelling. You might know Jumpman better by his contemporary name and occupation, adopted when expanding to the US market: Super Mario the plumber. They gave him a shot, and he came back to them with "Jumpman", a carpenter who was trying to rescue his girlfriend Pauline from his pet gorilla, who was on top of a half-constructed skyscraper. ![]() Games were solely made by engineers back then, but they did have a junior designer who was keen to learn. The game received positive reviews upon release critics praised the visuals and various aspects of gameplay, but most were divided over the game’s soundtrack.In 1982 a games company had all of their engineers tied up working on other projects, but they owed their distributor another game. The game is set in the “Northern Kremisphere”, a fictionalized version of northern Europe and Canada. Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! utilises the same Silicon Graphics technology from its predecessors, which features the use of pre-rendered 3D imagery. The plot centers around Dixie Kong and her cousin, Kiddy Kong, in their attempts to save the captured Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong from the series’ antagonist King K. The game was made available to download on the Wii’s Virtual Console service in 2007, as well as for the Wii U’s Virtual Console in 2014. It was also re-released for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) in 2005. ![]() ![]() It is the third installment of the Donkey Kong Country series and serves as a direct sequel to Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest. It was released in November 1996 in North America and Japan, and on 13 December in Europe and Australia. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! is a 1996 platform video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). ![]()
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