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Relatively early on in the development of the first game, the team realized they had more ideas than could fit in a single game.

Speaking to Retro Gamer in 2018, the game’s Producer and Co-Designer Gregg Mayles said that “the pressure was on ourselves.” For Rare, ideas for a second game emerged during the development of Donkey Kong Country. The company proved that it could more than hang with Sonic and the rest of the upstart Sega Genesis gang.įor Nintendo, domination through one game could only mean one thing: domination through more games. Thanks to a then- unique partnership with the British video game developer Rare, the game had cutting-edge graphics and a breakneck pace that players found irresistible. It was the first Donkey Kong game neither produced nor directed by creator Shigeru Miyamoto, though he contributed design ideas.In 1994, Nintendo needed Donkey Kong Country to be a hit. Tasked with reviving the dormant Donkey Kong franchise, Rare assembled 12 developers to work on Donkey Kong Country over 18 months. Donkey Kong Country was inspired by the Super Mario series and was one of the first home console games to feature pre-rendered graphics, achieved through a compression technique that allowed Rare to convert 3D models into SNES sprites without losing detail. Nintendo sought a game to compete with Sega's Aladdin (1993) and purchased a large minority stake in the company. After developing numerous Nintendo Entertainment System games in the 1980s, Rare, a British studio founded by Tim and Chris Stamper, purchased Silicon Graphics workstations to render 3D models. In the multiplayer modes, two players can work together cooperatively or race each other. In 40 side-scrolling levels, the player collects items, defeats enemies and bosses, and finds secrets.

It is a reboot of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise and follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set out to recover their stolen banana hoard from King K. Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.