Donkey Kong Country facts for kids

Donkey Kong Country (also called DKC) is the first installment of the Donkey Kong Country series and the first game in the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy, overall. This video game was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is a platformer developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. The playable characters in this game are Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.

The game was remade for the Game Boy Color in 2000 and was also remade again for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Donkey Kong Country was ported over to the Wii's Virtual Console in 2006 and 2007. On November 25, 2012, for reasons unknown, Donkey Kong Country and both its sequels were delisted from the Wii's Virtual Console worldwide except in South Korea, but on October 30, 2014, the games were relisted only in Europe and Australia. Around the same time, the games were released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Europe and Australia, in Japan on November 26, 2014, and in the United States and Canada on February 26, 2015. For handhelds, Donkey Kong Country was ported exclusively over to the New Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console in March 2016. It is one of the 21 games included on the Super NES Classic Edition and was made available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online for the Nintendo Switch on July 15, 2020.

Worlds

There are six worlds and a final boss battle on Gangplank Galleon sometimes referred to as a world. The worlds are;

• Kongo Jungle
• Monkey Mines
• Vine Valley
• Gorilla Glacier
• Kremkroc Industries Inc.
• Chimp Caverns
• Gangplank Galleon (sometimes considered as a world)

Bosses

There are seven bosses in Donkey Kong Country. These bosses include;

• Very Gnawty
• Master Necky
• Queen B.
• Really Gnawty
• Dumb Drum
• Master Necky Snr.
• King K. Rool

Changes between the ports

Donkey Kong Country had received two remakes; one for the Game Boy Color and one for the Game Boy Advance. The Game Boy Advance version has a larger amount of changes, while the Game Boy Color version doesn't have as much changes.

Images for kids

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  Rare used SGI Challenge workstations (pictured) to produce Donkey Kong Country's pre-rendered visuals.

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  Donkey Kong Country was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (pictured) when it was beginning to face competition from next-generation hardware.

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  Different versions of Donkey Kong Country: the SNES original (top left), the Game Boy Color version (top right), and the Game Boy Advance version (bottom)

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  Rumours spread that Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto (pictured in 2019) disliked Donkey Kong Country; the reports are seemingly apocryphal.

See also

In Spanish: Donkey Kong Country para niños