Anyone tell that fool that CRTs were literally the only kind of TV that existed at the time
Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong
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Aeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I mean, other types of displays definitely existed.
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In that era you had CRTs or Rear Projection TVs.
Rear Projection was bigger (55" 4:3) but often times was susceptible to burn-in and had a worse quality picture compared to a CRT
Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s which had the most technical advantages over LCD Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn’t really match them until the 2010s (I never had a plasma display though so I don’t fully understand plasma)
DLP was a thing and could get up to and over 80" while maintaining quality but DLP could not be wall mounted as they were quite big like rear projection screens
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea but LCDs were shit and had shifting colors across the screen even when you were sitting right in front of them.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 month ago
No pre-order bonus No battle pass not even skins
Video game disregarded.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
the chain smoking and hard drugs of video game’s
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I know this is rage bait, but DKC was fantastic. I remember when Blockbuster video held a contest where you could play a game, and if you had the best score in the entire store you could win free movie rentals for a year. And if you did good enough, you could qualify for a “The Wizard” style video game competition in California. I played the shit out of this game to practice for weeks. I learned all the spots where you could drop down a hole and instead of dying, you get some rewards. I went in to this blockbuster ready to get my family a year of free movie rentals and possibly a trip to California. The first hole I dropped down I died. They had a modified version of the game that didn’t have these secrets in it. I was entirely unprepared. I played my 3 turns and did pretty terrible. After we left the blockbuster my parents had to run into a store and I just waited in the car. I literally cried cause I was so disappointed in how bad I did.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean a modified version? What or the point of that if they are sending people to a contest after? Unfair.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There’s a 1.2 version that fixed several bugs and glitches, including at least one warp
EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just FYI. I lucked out and won my local Blockbuster stores version of this contest 🙂 Made it to the state finals, but was too young to compete and got kicked out. (I was 11.) But you better believe I rented a free movie every month. Sometimes got away with 2 haha 😂
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m so jealous!
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The sound design was amazing. I can still hear the boing from jumping on a tire. The success jingle echos still.
crank0271@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I found out recently that there are musicians remastering the songs from the soundtracks of our favorite childhood games. Stuff like this: youtu.be/39hGqV42CkM
The nostalgia hits hard.
G4Z@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Oh yeah, there’s been some guys doing this for Amiga games for a while.
Check these bad boys out
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
monke
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 month ago
He’s right you know
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You fucking idiot
You absolute baffoon
Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Yes, but… how likely do you think it is that Anon has even one friend?
Zoot@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Or a sibling for that matter
doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait, I thought you were only able to tag out or were forced to swap on death. Did me and my brother spend all that time taking turns when it was actually true co-op!? (Tbf, I was always Donkey, so this is more of a “him problem”, but still!)
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oof, I might be the fool thinkong of DKC 2
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
On the one hand, I didn’t like it that much when it came out. It’s not that I hated it or hated on it, just wasn’t my thing. Mario games were far superior platforming experience all around, in my opinion.
Graphics for the time and platform were great. If you weren’t there at the time and your frame of reference is modern (32-bit or later) graphics, of course they suck. But that’s hardly fair or objective, when it comes to understanding why they were well-regarded AT THAT TIME.
But, I’ll add this: A number of my friends’ kids were introduced to 8-bit and 16-bit games first, in lieu of exposing them to toxic modern phone/tablet games. And the SNES Donkey Kong game(s) were/are amongst the games that the kids enjoyed and played the most. So, there’s something to that, if you ask me.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
The soundtrack is pretty good tho
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 month ago
My parents had a pretty good stereo, and I loved to just listen to the water level soundtrack.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 month ago
deathbird@mander.xyz 1 month ago
It wasn’t that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
has Diddy
OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well at the time he was going by Puff Daddy
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Idk, I think the game was pretty sick
kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I have a solid memory of my roommate and I hitting Mine Cart Madness, and when I finally made it through we whooped and hollered so much the upstairs neighbor got mad and came down to shush us, at 4 PM on a Saturday
don@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
There we go again with that generational divide horseshit. Plenty of people from baby boomers to (probably) Gen Alpha have liked it, for various reasons. Stop trying to pin your ridicule on whatever generation you happen to dislike.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes! Gen X here and I loved it when it first came out!
Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mine Cart Madness was one of the best levels in any game fight me.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh my god
I played that not too long ago. The muscle memory is still there 😂😂😂
moakley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was a Genesis kid, but I played most of the SNES classics while it was still the 90s.
Donkey Kong Country has always been criminally overrated. Even on a CRT television it was just not that good.
In fact I’ll go so far as to say that between the SNES and the N64, Rare made exactly two great games: Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing. Everything else was middling.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 month ago
sega kid
shitty game takes
Many such cases
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Sonic the Hegehog wasn’t fun. Good art direction, great music; terrible level design that very often countered the premise of “going fast.” I never found them enjoyable and find it crazy how big the series is, even though most games in the franchise are said to be garbage even by Sonic fans.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Banjo kazooie and dk64 were tops, you take that back right now
moakley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d say those were solid games, but not great.
Rare games just had this style that made everything feel a little off.
Like eating a Subway sandwich. The ham doesn’t just taste like ham; it tastes like ham + Subway. The turkey tastes like turkey + Subway. Banjo-Kazooie was the worst about this. It just had so much of this extra “Rare” flavor on top of it.
And like, you don’t notice it at first until you try the breakfast sandwich, and when that tastes like egg + Subway, you can’t eat there anymore because that’s all you can taste.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I won’t deny the technical achievement that this game was for Nintendo, and the coup it was for Rare (at the time). And i would never take pot-shots at anyone’s joy of nostalgia around this game: Not all of my own favorite picks are winners. But I absolutely agree with this greentext. I recall getting this game new and just feeling underwhelmed by it.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Agreed. I played through it and it wasn’t bad by any means, but the graphics were pretty much the only interesting thing about it. I don’t think I ever went back to it after beating it once, whereas I played through Mario World a lot. And trying to do the collectathon 100% crap was boring as hell, because so many random hidden bananas were off the top of the screen or just down pits, so I hope you like dying a bunch to figure out which pit doesn’t happen to kill you.
AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I always chose Diddy
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I always feel like Diddy controls better than Donkey somehow (even though that’s probably untrue), and the fact that he holds barrels in front means you can safely run forward into an enemy without getting hurt. That made all the difference to me as a kid.
Plus he wears a cool hat!
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Diddy all day. His cartwheel felt so much snappier than Donkey’s roll. I felt like I could jump farther with him.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even 4chan can’t deny how good the soundtrack is
5in1k@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
It looked pretty good for the time. Couldnt do real time 3D rendering and also be fast, so they compromised with sprites made from prey rendered 3D models.
It also had great level design and memorable music.
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 month ago
You could start Starfox without the extra chip if you did some trick with the cartridge, but there were big black bits on the screen or something? It sorta worked but it sucked. I can’t remember any more details than that.
Dvoid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep, agree
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
An I the only millennial that doesn’t care for Nintendo?
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No their games lack innovation. The games are essentially the same as they were 3 decades ago but with better graphics.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That is a wild take.
jeff@programming.dev 1 month ago
Damn, what a wild take.
Nintendo might not be as innovative as some indie games but they constantly innovate and define new genres.
I mean, look at the consoles. Wii, Wii U, and Switch are all crazy innovative.
Some of their more innovative stuff might not be as popular, e.g., ARMS and LABO. Even their mainline series have some innovative mechanics for the genre.
Serious question. What company is more innovative than Nintendo?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I can’t stand most platformers, but particularly older ones. It’s maddening to play within such small visual areas. If I have to consistently guess what’s on the other end of a jump in a game about controlling my jumps, you’ve fucked up completely as a developer. Donkey Kong is awful at letting you know what exists in front of you within a timely manner.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 month ago
I played Donkey Kong Country on a Gameboy Colour (I had a SNES but never got the SNES version) and I thought it was one of the best games ever 😭 still remember tryin to get past that mine cart level lol
Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Played it all the way through but my snes platformer of choice is smw2: yoshi’s island
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yea, the graphics of this game (and Super Mario RPG) are nightmare inducing. I can only be onboard with anon about this. Plus, you had great point+click adventure games back then as well.
Also soundtrack is mid. No Bad Religion or Less Than Jake. Fight me!
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
which game is this? I never played it. only DK i played was the N64 one and i loved it
buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the one right before that on SNES. I think it’s Donkey Kong Country? Let me look it up.
Yep, that’s the one. At the time, the graphics were revolutionary. It’s not a huge surprise it doesn’t look as good on a non CRT, but that’s an unfair retrospective criticism me thinks.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The reward for 101% was getting 101% ya muppet. Does this idiot think people play games for intangible pointless achievements instead of having fun? It must fucking suck going through life needing an extra reward for doing something fun.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
This comment deserves a *
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Meanwhile, the reward for 100%ing a game in 2025 is… a ribbon on your Steam account.
hushable@lemmy.world 1 month ago
knowyourmeme.com/memes/xbox-360-kid
This meme is almost 20 years old
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
first off - don’t get me wrong - i love the history for this
but how many times do you think people have done a repost post like yours?
is that n-1?
M137@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m trying to steer my younger (13) half-brother into thinking like this, that you’re doing stuff for fun. There doesn’t need to be instant (or not instant) rewards, especially the kinds that are so common now with many games that are made for kids and teens like a “billion zoomble bucks”, ultra rare legendary gold skin (that is not actually rare in any way), digital stickers you can’t even use for anything and whatever else. The reward should always be to have fun.
Alk@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago