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Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This comment deserves a *

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Meanwhile, the reward for 100%ing a game in 2025 is… a ribbon on your Steam account.

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    • hushable@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      knowyourmeme.com/memes/xbox-360-kid

      This meme is almost 20 years old

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      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  • Aeri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyone tell that fool that CRTs were literally the only kind of TV that existed at the time

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    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, other types of displays definitely existed.

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      • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yea but LCDs were shit and had shifting colors across the screen even when you were sitting right in front of them.

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  • Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No pre-order bonus No battle pass not even skins

    Video game disregarded.

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the chain smoking and hard drugs of video game’s

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  • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What do you mean a modified version? What or the point of that if they are sending people to a contest after? Unfair.

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      • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s a 1.2 version that fixed several bugs and glitches, including at least one warp

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    • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 😂

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      • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m so jealous!

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The sound design was amazing. I can still hear the boing from jumping on a tire. The success jingle echos still.

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • G4Z@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, there’s been some guys doing this for Amiga games for a while.

        Check these bad boys out

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyVtR09r0E

        www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuaUc1iYD7s

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  • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    monke

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    • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He’s right you know

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You fucking idiot

    You absolute baffoon

    Donkey Kong Country let 2nd player play at the same time as you

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    • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, but… how likely do you think it is that Anon has even one friend?

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      • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or a sibling for that matter

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    • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!)

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oof, I might be the fool thinkong of DKC 2

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  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The soundtrack is pretty good tho

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    • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My parents had a pretty good stereo, and I loved to just listen to the water level soundtrack.

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      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I was just listening to this set sooner today. After hitting hard for an hour, she close with the water level soundtrack.

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  • deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It wasn’t that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes! Gen X here and I loved it when it first came out!

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    has Diddy

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    • OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well at the time he was going by Puff Daddy

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  • TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk, I think the game was pretty sick

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    • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mine Cart Madness was one of the best levels in any game fight me.

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh my god

      I played that not too long ago. The muscle memory is still there 😂😂😂

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      sega kid

      shitty game takes

      Many such cases

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • LOLseas@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Uh… Perfect Dark and GoldenEye.

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      • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mentioned Goldeneye.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Banjo kazooie and dk64 were tops, you take that back right now

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      • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • AZX3RIC@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I always chose Diddy

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    • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Diddy all day. His cartwheel felt so much snappier than Donkey’s roll. I felt like I could jump farther with him.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even 4chan can’t deny how good the soundtrack is

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  • 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember the reviews of the first re release for the GBA, they were similar to this one from 4chan.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Dvoid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, agree

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An I the only millennial that doesn’t care for Nintendo?

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No their games lack innovation. The games are essentially the same as they were 3 decades ago but with better graphics.

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      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is a wild take.

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      • jeff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Played it all the way through but my snes platformer of choice is smw2: yoshi’s island

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  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    which game is this? I never played it. only DK i played was the N64 one and i loved it

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    • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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