Donkey Kong '94 - Arcade DK's 101 Level Sequel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2020
- It may share the same name but Donkey Kong for Game Boy is an entirely different beast. The king of the arcade swings his way to the small screen in one of Nintendo's most ambitious portable games.
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*Sees Donkey Kong video on Nintendo Life*
Me: Definitely a Jon video.
Good to see a series like under the super scope back focusing on older titles! I hope undercover sequel is a new series on here for sure!!!
Jon's back!
:D
More like, "Definitely a JONkey Kong Video!"
How can this guy with these looks have THIS AMAZING DEEP VOICE???
Looks like he’s pushing it
Yes this is not the older man sitting in a leather chair with a nice whiskey I was imagining.
it means he has a big peen
@@coreymaurer862
He’s not, lol
Ah, good to see a whole new group of people exposed to the Jon Paradox.
I LOVE DK 94. It's easily my second favorite Game Boy title behind Link's Awakening. It is well worth your time to play this gem.
If this game just had another name, it would probably be remembered as one of the best games of the Game Boy and puzzle platformers in general. It feels surprisingly modern and it's a lot of fun, so I'm glad to see this game get some recognition. Great video
I went on and on and on to Jon while at GameXplain to cover Donkey Kong 94 in one of his Beyond the Super Scope episodes, and it ends up being one of the very first things he does once he left that site... Glad to see it's finally here. The best game in the entire Game Boy library needs more love and recognition! Cheers!
The format of this is very similar to under the super scope
Louis Yeah, it was basically an Under The Super-Scope episode in all but name. Pity Jon couldn’t just take the name with him when he left (especially as he was using it before he joined GX).
LOL and to think he isn't around now
Yes played it for the first time and it’s absolutely astonishing for it’s time!
I always felt this was the best DK game ever. The end was so so good.
I extremely agree. This is my favorite Donkey Kong game as well. I even prefer this game over the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, even though I still love the Donkey Kong Country games. Donkey Kong 94(GB) is a really great game and an under-appreciated Donkey Kong game.
@Joel Johnson I highly agree :) I'd definately buy it. Imagine a remake with more levels, that'd be cool.
@Joel Johnson That's true lol I never worry about getting a single Game Over in Donkey Kong 94 because this game is very generous with 1ups. When you get all Pauline's items, you go to minigames that gaurantees to always get extra lives. And 1up hearts in levels are easy to get. Around World 2 and World 3, I believe I already have around 60-70 lives by then. That can be fixed in a remake.
This game desperately needs a remake. DK94 is one of my favorite video games of all time.
had so many memories in school playing this on the go, great game 🥰🥰
Jon's finally got to show his love of donkry Kong 94
Gameboy DK is perhaps my favorite Gameboy game.
A true masterpiece of gameplay design, Donkey Kong '94 will be forever remembered as the greatest game I have ever beaten with sheer skill and perserverance.
When I played this game at a friend of mine back in 95, I've decided to buy Donkey kong on the Nes.
After playing the 3 stages of Donkey Kong on the Nes I was disappointed that it returned to the first stage.
That is a massive O O F
Imagine if Nintendo finally revitalizes the 2D Mario franchise to push past the stale "New" style and gives him all these acrobatic moves which even 3D Mario never got, like the hand stand and successive high jumps if you stick the landing just right.
I discovered this game while on a hunt for GB games after doing some uh...let's just say some home-brewed surgery to my 2DS XL...and I really couldn't be happier. It's a true masterpiece and feels like the natural evolution of the DK arcade game, like, everything that game was capable of being. Really glad to see you highlight here, great work as always Jon!
This game is secretly one of the best games of all time
12:22 "We're in some kind of boring box factory."
Box Factory Tour Guide: I heard that!
Damn you! A box!
"Think you will have a career in the world of box making?" " well that will always be the dreams."
This is my favorite Gameboy game, I feel it is criminally slept on. it has inventive level design built on a simple premise (get key to door), you’ve got a host of movement options (handstand jump?!?), hilarious animations for every kind of death, and some pretty excellent music. I played it on the Super Gameboy, which gave it a full color treatment! It’s really worth your time to play it.
2:49 The very first time I played this version of Donkey Kong, I was definitely surprised by this twist. And then my cousin let me borrow the game. I was like, "Holy shit! How the hell long is this game?!"
"Well, that's Ice Climber."
I love DK 94! I got this back in the day for a family road trip and I got tons of memories.
DK '94 Is one of my favorite games of all time. Played it all on Super GB.
I got this when it first came out, along with the Super Game Boy. It was mind blowing to see Game Boy with colors and the enhancements of DK94 with it were awesome. I also downloaded it the day it released on the 3DS eshop. It's a great game and I highly recommend it.
I loved this game boy game. I replayed it more times than I can remember.
I can’t believe this isn’t on the Switch. One of my favorites.
So Jon left Gamexplain and switched to Nintendo Life!?
Yeah.
Never heard of this dude
@@meric12131415 He's an insider with the deepest voice imaginable.
@@crocodileman94 🤣 I see but he has vin diesels voice must have stolen it 🤣🤣
Basically, yeah. No bad blood between the two, thankfully. Jon left GX for NL mostly due to time differences.
Something just wonders me if Jon was like, Ight bet let’s do this. Peace out everyone in GameXplain. But also, I support Jon where ever he goes :)
Loved this game - some absolutely belting beats in the soundtrack, as demonstrated here. Great video
The year I got my Game Boy Pocket, I begged so hard for it, and told every single person in my family I wanted it, that for Christmas that year, two different family members got me one. That next Easter, my mom got me Wave Race and Donkey Kong 94 (just called Donkey Kong). To this very day, it’s my favorite handheld game, and favorite game to revisit periodt.
I loved playing this game on the Gameboy when I was a kid.
I discovered this recently myself and love it! Those backflips and handstands made Donkey Kong feel fresh again it was incredible. Still plays great too.
This was my first GB Game. Dad bought it with a clear play it loud gameboy back in 94 or 95.
I want to see this game get a remake on Switch, since Nintendo seems to like remaking Gameboy games recently!
I'd love to see a links awakening style remake of this.
@@MrSuperleobros Do you mean graphically? Because I don't know how a Link's Awakening style would work with Donkey Kong.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 sorry I should have specified I don't mean the same art style as links awakening but give it the remaster treatment with updated visuals that keep true to the original art style.
@@MrSuperleobros A stylistic art design would be nice. Mario vs Donkey Kong has the cell shaded art style and Mario & Luigi has a more cartoonish comic book style. So maybe giving it a simple, yet charming style could work if it fits well enough.
Great video. More people need to play this game! Though I suggest to avoid using NES DK to represent the Arcade version. The NES port never lived up to the frantic pace of the Arcade that keeps it popular to this day.
The best way I had of playing the original Arcade Donkey Kong was in DK64. It had a perfect port.
a criminally underrated game.
it's a BRILLIANT puzzle platformer, years ahead of it's time.
if you have a 3DS, download it for $4. you're welcome.
Love seeing this kind of content from you Jon! Really interesting to see it here as opposed to on your own channel, shakes up the channel a bit between the reviews, news and reactions
Fortunately I had a subscription to Nintendo Power at the time so I got to see all about this game way before it was released. It took me like two straight weeks of selling cigarettes at school before I could afford it, but I bought a copy on release day and I still have it today, nearly 30 years later!
This was one of my favorite Gameboy games was I was a kid. A bunch of the levels had some tricky puzzles to solve and I had a lot of difficulty solving them. But I persevered and eventually beat the game.
My favorite game of all time
Great video! I bought DK 94 on a whim on launch whilst on holiday, and it blew me away. Its easily in my top ten favourite games of all time. It genuinely pains me how few people have paid it (and how all modern legal ways of playing like the VC releases haven't included the Super GameBoy colours & sound! grr). Simply calling it "Donkey Kong" was a stupid, misleading move which I'm sure lead the majority to skip over it, as you originally did. This is a huge shame as its a masterpiece of design and you did a fantastic job explaining why. Nice one!
Jon's retrospectives are always top notch!
Absolutely love this video.
My TH-cam feed is nothing but new games, future games and new consoles. Old games need love too. Please more of these. Most Jon video I've seen in ages!
It's great to see someone else gush over this game. I think it's a tie between this and Link's Awakening for Game Boy MVP.
So glad ur keepin the love for this game alive
Ok that ending caught me off guard big time! I clicked into this video, heard Jon's voice and thought, "Oh this must be one of if not Jon's very last video for Gamexplain. Well let's send him off with a bang!" Then the ending happens and I'm like..."wait Jon you're with Nintendo Life now?!?" Just goes to show how much attention I have when clicking on a video 😆
But seriously though best wishes Jon hope this new choice with your career brings you success and happiness.
I must admit that I’ve never heard of this before... that’s really cool! Imagine if we got a new Donkey Kong on Switch with new mechanics, cutscenes, and more! That would be really nice.
I will never forget that Xmas. I was 13 and got this, a super Game Boy and Donkey Kong Country. What a time to be alive!
This was my first Game Boy game and still one of the best. Great coverage!
I'm pleased to see some recognition for this sometimes-overlooked classic. It's long been my favorite Game Boy game.
Love Jon being here. His content is great.
Wherever Jon goes, I go. Still making the same great content as well.
Subscribed because of Kong madness and godly voice.
Some of my best childhood memories. Ice world still confuses me
I remember when I first got this game for Christmas back in 97, It was totally Addicting.
Awesome video Jon!
I like him. He can stay.
love this game! played it so much...I believe younger me eventually got so frustrated with later level puzzles that I gave up, but i would love to give it another go...one of my favourite games as a kid, played it on my super game boy!
Love this video! Donkey Kong ‘94 is one of the best Nintendo games, period.
In my opinion one of the most underrated GB Games of all time
Yeah when I first played this a few years ago it caught me completely off guard when DK got back up and took Pauline again lol
They should put the Super Gameboy on the SNES portion of Nintendo Switch Online with every Gameboy game that had unique features for it included.
Really good video I liked the presentation
Whoa! My friend played this all the time at school! When i picked up Mario vs Donkey Kong on GBA i assumed i had found it, guess I'll be hunting this down haha
My favorite Game Boy game. I still love to play it.
Mario vs donkey Kong on the game boy advance was one of, if not the first video game I would have ever played. 5 year old me absolutely loved it
Naming this game simply "Donkey Kong" was one of Nintendo's most confusing decisions. It's like they were less interested in selling copies than surprising the few people who did buy it.
This video made me buy the game on 3Ds Thanks Jon.
My favourite GB game, love it.
Nice video.
This game was and still is so awesome.
The only thing is that I wish when they released it on the 3DS they released the Super GameBoy version too.
Don’t forget that the N64 Smash Bros didn’t use the Rare design for Donkey Kong either
Still cannot believe his voice is real.
I remember when I first played this. I was a kid and my niece needed help beating the first couple of stages. Having beaten the original donkey Kong, I breezed through and "beat" the game for her. Imagine my surprise when he got back up and the game had a ton of new stages to play!
And all this time I thought that Mario VS Donkey Kong on the gba was the first of its kind.
welcome To Nintendo Life John
I remember being so confused when donkey kong got up.
I still have this game in my Neon green gameboy color, it was so much fun, and sometimes hard as hell.
This video is Jon xplaining the game :)
Such a game! Glad more people will be made aware of it
I remember buying this from a flea market & playin it back in 2009.i played it on my gba sp,i never made it past the first iceberg level
Best game boy game that I was lucky to get via the 3DS ambassadors program after they reduced the price of the console a few months after its release
ngl was not expecting this dude to look like this
And now in 2022 it seems that through the Mario movie, Nintendo have finally brought this particular Donkey Kong design to 3D. Took them 28 years to supplant the Rare version.
The voice of a superb thespian.
Jon makes the channel 100 times better
I love this mans voice.
DK is the true mascot and face of Nintendo
Yeah this looks great I wish I had it growing up
Ok so I was playing this game last year and beat it today and I still missed this
Jon eyes. 😍
JON CARTWRIGHT ON NINTENDOLIFE?? I didn't think him taking a picture with that shirt on twitter meant he actually works for you guys now haha.
Yeah he has a cool announcement video too!
@@zac3249 announcement video? Where?
This is one of my faves I still have the cartridge and enjoyed the 3DS version I hope it comes to the switch
Wow NintendoLife never put out s o many videos till you started!
Nintendo should give Donkey Kong 94 the Link's Awakening Treatment on the Switch... Well, maybe not the same art style as the Link's Awakening remake, but a modernized look that makes sense and stays faithful to the original.
I love that idea :)
This alone really makes me want gameboy added to the NSO VC
Honestly, March of the Minis was closer to a sequel to Mario & Wario, a Japan-only game that used the Super Famicom mouse.
Holy shit, you're right. I didn't even think of that game
I really enjoy this GameXplain video
I love this game so much, I hope it gets remade for the Switch. Hopefully with an extra mode for Pauline. ❤️
DK 94 HAS aged so well...
I love you Jon!
I instantly knew Jon made this video
I wouldn't mind if Nintendo made more of these types of games for the Switch while we wait for the bigger titles.
2D games with that Nintendo perfect gameplay while looking great on a smaller screen!
it makes me super duper duper happy to see dk '94 given recognition, but i will say i feel you sold the mario vs. dk games after the gba one a bit short - march of the minis and especially mini-land mayhem are both genuinely great games, and the latter actually took after dk '94 a bit with its world opening cutscenes teaching gameplay mechanics
after that _(well, i guess after mario & donkey kong minis on the move on the 3ds eshop, but that was kind of its own thing with its own gameplay style)_ the mvdk games did get very repetitive, but i feel the first few mini games are kind of overlooked gems in their own right !