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Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set out to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Rool and his army, the Kremlings. Nintendo commissioned Rare to revive the dormant Donkey Kong franchise as it sought a game to compete with Sega's Aladdin (1993). Donkey Kong Country was one of the first home console games to feature pre-rendered graphics, achieved through a compression technique that converted 3D models into sprites with little loss of detail. It was released on 18 November 1994 to acclaim. Critics hailed its visuals as groundbreaking and praised its gameplay and music; it is frequently listed as one of the greatest games of all time. Donkey Kong Country re-established Donkey Kong as a popular Nintendo franchise and was followed by sequels and ports for subsequent Nintendo consoles. (Full article...)

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Main editors: TheJoebro64, Jaguar
Promoted: August 19, 2022
Reasons for nomination: 30th anniversary of release; this article hasn't been run before and it's one of the most important games of all time. Ran this blurb by Dank at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Donkey Kong Country/archive1.
Support as nominator. JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 15:05, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - perhaps the logo used could benefit from having the background removed? Just a suggestion. joeyquism (talk) 00:59, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I actually don't know why there's a white background—it shows up as transparent when I open the full image! JOE BRO ⁶⁴ 13:50, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's strange. Must just be a thing on my end 😅 joeyquism (talk) 22:39, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]