Ep - 135 Donkey Kong Chronicles Part 1!

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Housekeeping

Retro Groove : S4 Ep. 24 Green Day - Warning

S4 Ep 23  Deftones - White Pony

 

Retro Rewind Solar Jetman - winner is Micah 

On Topic Retro: Kuru Kuru Kururin

 

FilmLogic: Tubi Decided: Heavenly Blade

 

Third Strongest Mole (youtube):  Battle network 6 complete 

 

Star Wars Dads: Episode 19

The Price Is Retro

If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess
Dinosaur - Leonard - adds up original costs, retail value

Ghost - Polterguest - always guesses 300

Shan’s list

Sam’s list

John’s list

Trivia Card

 

Show Topic

 

A History of Donkey Kong

It all began with the great Ape War….

 

Timeline of Games

 

Classic Era

Donkey Kong - 1981 (arcade) 

Donkey Kong Game and Watch - 1982

Donkey Kong Jr Game and Watch - 1982

Donkey Kong II  Game & Watch - 1982

Donkey Kong Jr - 1982 (arcade)

Donkey Kong 3 - 1983 (arcade)

Donkey Kong Circus Game & Watch - 1983

Donkey Kong Jr Math - 1983  - famicom/NES

Donkey Kong 3 Game & Watch - 1984

Donkey Kong Hockey Game & watch - 1984

Donkey Kong (‘94) - 1994 - Gameboy

 

Rare Era

Donkey Kong Country - 1994 - SNES

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest - 1995 - SNES

Donkey Kong Land - 1995

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble! - 1996- SNES

Donkey Kong Land 2  - 1996

Donkey Kong Land III  - 1997

Diddy Kong Racing - 1997 - N64

Donkey Kong 64 - 1999 - N64

 

Part 2

 

What do we do now?  Era

Donkey Konga - 2003 - Gamecube

Donkey Konga 2 - 2004 - Gamecube

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat - 2004 - Gamecube

Mario vs. Donkey Kong - 2004 - GBA

Donkey Konga 3 (jp only) - 2005 - Gamecube

DK King of Swing - 2005 - GBA

Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the minis - 2006 - DS

Donkey Kong Barrel Blast - 2007 - Gamecube

DK Jungle Climber - 2007 - DS

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis march again - 2009 - DSiware

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! - 2010 - DS

 

Retro Era

Donkey Kong Country Returns - 2010 - Wii

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: minis on the Move : 2013 - 3DS eshop

Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze - 2014 - Wii U

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: tipping stars - 2015 - 3DS and Wii U eshop

 

Current Era

Donkey Kong Bananza - 2025 - Switch 2

Cancelled games

Sega game - 1984 - arcade - featured DK as a parking attendant

Return of Donkey Kong - NES - 1987

Untitled CD-i game - 1993

Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers - 2004- GBA : became It’s Mr. Pants when Rare acquired by MicroSoft

Diddy Kong Pilot - 2005 - GBA - became Banjo Pilot

Donkey Kong Racing - Gamecube - 2002

Freedom - 2016 - Nintendo Switch (?) - Nintendo & Vicarious Visions, 3d platformer, grinding on vines.  Activision Blizzard wanted VV to work on Call of Duty instead.

 

Thoughts

• Does Donkey Kong Need to be distinct from Mario?

• Where would DK be without Rare?

• Is Rare DK (and characters like King K Rool) a thing of the past?

• Tiki Taks at Nintendo World…

• Hopes for Bananza and Donkey Kong’s new era

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