Donkey Kong Country (SNES) James & Mike Mondays
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2015
- This week we review an all time classic.. Donkey Kong Country on Super Nintendo! Donkey Kong Country is one of our favorite SNES games! Enjoy more James & Mike episodes with our new Best of James & Mike Mondays Blu-Ray ►
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Hearing the creaking and crackling of the controller makes me happy
treespunk my grandmother use to say the kids are in the room plucking on that game when she walk passed the room and heard that noise
oh, those were the sounds of my childhood.
i wish i could go back in time to the Christmas of '94 when i got my SNES.
It's a sound I've heard many times
100 %
It’s fap sound
James and Mike should do a shirtless Lets Play. They can call it "James & Mike Man-Days"
+Big Herm lol
+Chest Pec Respect yeah, if they call the completionist and jontron to co-star!
Your comment really fits your pic to me.
Why is that?
'Broing out with James and Mike'
This game was HUGE when it came out. The graphics blew people's minds
One of the greatest games of all-time.
yes and its one of the best platformers i ever played its definatly equal to sonic the hedgehog
@@justintahair9119 Its better than sonic by a long shot
@Sandy V. sonic fucking sucks
Not only all time. One of the greatest game of 1994.
@@brettbuildalot5550Oh Christ aye. Sonic can’t hold a candle to this beauty
I love this game. David Wise delivered on the music. So awesome.
+MegamanNG Damn right he did! I bump this shit in my car.
pob19782010 Been a fan of James for years.
The fact that he came back to compose for Donkey Country Deep Freeze for the Wii U makes him all the more awesome!
branaa09 Big time. Some of the music are so divine especially World 2-1. Makes you want to go to Sweden.
+MegamanNG I agree, but people seem to forget about Eveline Fischer who produced and composed a lot of the tracks like Ice Cave Chant, Forest Frenzy, and Robin Beanland who did Funky's Fugue! I love David's work to bits, but the people he worked with also deserve credit! :)
Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2 are some of my favorite games ever!
+SupaNintendoGirl I agree and the music is legendary.
I never played those hopefully there are dkc 1 and 2 on the wiiu virtual console once I get a wii u :)
+SupaNintendoGirl As always, DKC 3 is underappreciated.
I love your channel
oh yeah! i wanna see you play one of them please! :)
I enjoy watching them play games and getting immersed in their discussions!
Which are centered around... Dog farts. :P
It's like me and my friends who are probably the only 14 year old in the city who still play couch games like this and mario kart.
You know it's getting intense when you can hear the controller creaking in the background almost as loud as they're speaking
mike please keep doing the longer episodes much love
+supersickmike It took a lot of extra work, but I didn't want to divide this one into two parts. Thanks for watching! - Mike
+supersickmike I prefer it like sometimes! Only on occasion though, I guess.
+Cinemassacre DO DKC2 NEXT!
+djjdchampion1 only if they complete the whole game and show the ending screen, still better graphics in that game than a lot of games come out today
+supersickmike But then I can't watch them early in the morning ;(
Letting Microsoft buy Rare was one of the biggest mistakes Nintendo ever made.
I don't see it as a mistake. Rare was slipping in quality by that time. They weren't giving much respect to Nintendo properties with both Donkey Kong 64 and Star Fox Adventure being disappointing titles. The only truly great Rare game at the end there was Banjo-Tooie.
+Wedge You forgot Conker Bad Fur Day
+DarkRaptor99 Actually I thought it was genius because we got Rare Replay. lol.
+Glenda-feathers Goose You expect anyone to take you seriously typing like that?
+Ketorulz I do own Conker's, but I wasn't impressed with it. Felt like it was just going for shock novelty with game play a distant second in priority. Though better than DK64, certainly.
I could listen to Aquatic Ambiance all day
ive done it.
Makes me pee
My favorite thing is smoking a bowl and listening to that it's my favorite SNES track, the next few of my favorites are Spark Mandril theme from Megaman X, Awakening from FF3/6, Corneria theme from Star Fox, and the Dungeon theme from LoZ: ALttP.
Starfox and DKC had amazing music on SNES
That and dire, dire docks (;
around 1:00 in the video, Mike says that radio stations have been playing music from DKC. I have played those before! You must have listened to my show!
Crash Bandicoot Warped had some cool water levels
+Coldkill2001 I guess they never played crash bandicoot since they grown up with nintendo.
+crashinator1 It's because this channel is all about nostalgia. The phrase "He's going to take you back to the past" on the AVGN theme. That was literal on this channel in general. That's why he plays mostly the older games. I also get the feeling that Mike and James are not a fan of games with a lot of cutscene in the story, they just want to play the game and PS2 and every generation after that does a lot of that. Or PS2 and Xbox was the start of that.
Why do my comments always turn into this?
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Well anyways, they are of older generation. Older generation tend fell in love of the things they were growing up as kids/teenagers. Of course not all people are like this. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 yrs from now the people who were kids in the present time were older would go around the internet confessing their love for the generation they grew up with which was anything that came around the early 2010's, The Xbox 360, the PS3's all that would be the equivalent to James loves his NES and SNES. Though Mike is actually abit more open minded because he does play some of the recent games/movies and some 2000 era stuff. But I think it's just this channel has a guideline for some of the older classic stuff. I can see partially why. So many people are already reviewing PS4, Nintendo Wii U games and such. Which doesn't really suit them. But honestly I have no problem with them playing and talking anything between PS1-PS4 or Xbox, Nintendo around that time too. Hell even some PC would be cool to see them try.
+Coldkill2001 i recall ristar (sega genesis) having good ones too
Doesn't play two player so they can switch at any point. Never switches.
It's a game James enjoys why mess up his groove.
+New_York_State_Of_Mind James never passes the sticks PERIOD any other time. fuckin controller hog......
+ampecsu mike doesn't seem to mind. he's having a blast talking with james and watching him play
not this time b/c he knows how much james likes dk. but normally he and everyone else's hands would be itching for that snes gamepad!
"Switch whenever they want"
James never wanted to switch
the sound of James fucking up that controller gives me life.
12:42 MUNKY CHEEZ!!!!
"I don't know maan."
This is one of the best game series of all time.
Donkey Kong Country 2 is a must play for a future episode.
+Intimidation That's my favorite one
I was never able to finish the second one.
It's good but it's a hard one.
+Intimidation series? id consider it one of the best games of all time it was AMAZING
+Intimidation i know right
sense first level of it begins kind of the area after the last one from the first game ends.
i was like totally WOW back in the day
+Intimidation I agree! They gotta play DK Country 2!
Donkey Kong Country is where Nintendo turned the tide on the 16-bit war with the Sega Genesis. At the time of it's release, Sega was pushing the 32X add-on...so Nintendo sends the message to gamers, "Hey, we got this great new game that looks BETTER than anything on the 32X, and you can play it right on your SNES system...no add-ons required!
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Donkey Kong Country was released in November 1994...a year before the Playstation. Nintendo's marketing was taking aim at the 32X which had just come out...not a system that was still one year down the road, and one that people didn't even know was going to be successful. Watch some old Donkey Kong Country commercials on CZcams...they specifically mention Sega and the 32X in the commercials.
+Yes Imsure i thought PSX didnt come out in US till 1996
+Yes Imsure No DKC does not "pale" in comparison to early PSX games. Partly because 3D back then was shitty. I don't think you can find anything this smooth looking on early PSX. Many people were saying it was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen, in a videogame. Also DKC came out in 1994.
+Baigandine L DKC isn't even actual 3D actually. the characters and backgrounds are 3D renders that where choppily digitized into sprites that looks almost as dated and muddy as hell even a few years after release . The DKC games are good games however that are fun and have great music (except for the 3rd...)
but the gaming market was looking forward to the future and that was seen in 3D titles in 94, The pc market had already had a ton of polygonal 3d titles out and announced as well as the arcades at the time. Also the PSX and the Saturn where released in japan that year which launch titles look better than DKC graphically. DKC was the last ditch effort of Nintendo to keep their console relevant until they could release the N64.
Damn this game has some good fuckin graphics for 1994
Even today their still great
I remember when I got this as a gift as a teen
Lost my fucking mind as soon as I started playing
My father played through it with me, he also played a lot of the original Super Mario Bros with me and we played a good deal of NBA Jam TE together all great memories.
Parents rented it for me I believe in ‘95during summer break, awesome memory.
I bet you never found it
James and Mike should get Mario Maker for Wii U. that would be interesting
agree
+Nukichuu Donkey Kong Maker - that should be a thing!
dicks.... dicks everywhere...
Imagine them playing Ross' levels...James would go full AVGN
+Kyrion Red I think they would just talk about how badly designed those levels are, cause in reality: They are poorly designed. Not that original either. Only Companion Spring 2 is somewhat good.
I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE DOG FARTS PART CAUSE I CAN RELATE
I have the exact same memory but from another game! Whenever I play Spark Man stage on Mega Man 3!
AVGN Theme Kazoo'd?
+Tsuko G. Coz you're a dog that has bad farts? Oh and you're also a dog that can type.
So THEY CAN FART!!! i know it! all this time they thought i was me, my dog and i need to have a conversation
Russell Teapot OMG I LOVE YOU, that was great, a live my comment open in hope someone would make a great joke like that
Is just read it for the second time, has not lose his mojo
"Put the cookie down" Arnold quote, jingle all the way
This was awesome. Two dudes relaxing, playing a video game and talking about whatever....love it! I found myself cheering for James and holding my breath during the daring parts of the video game! Please keep this up!
One of the best James & Mike Mondays. We can really see, how you both enjoyed this great game.
You should do the other 2 DK games too!
Kyle needs to be featured again on the Avgn episodes! I always loved his singing and guitarplay. Plus he is a weirdo so i can relate.
That was so intense and a lot of fun to watch, great job James at beating the game on one try at the end!
I can't be the only one who cringes every time James doesn't roll before jumping.
@@johnnyace2287 well it's not really roll jump, it's really a roll that follows up with a run so it when you jump, you gain more distance in your jump.
I didn't know that you can do that, so it's more of a gimmick shit
You must be fun at parties. Let the guy have fun, you don’t have to be perfect to play a game like this it’s easy, I beat it when I was 6 years old
@@JamilThePimpLol I am fun at parties! Not sperging out because of a harmless joke critique causing me to respond to a three year old comment plays a big part in it!
@@JamilThePimpLolHmm why do I feel you’re talking out your rear here???
Love when Mike is totally rambling and James is playing a hard as balls level and trying his best to listen and play
28:28: Clap Trap did the Koding? well.. no wonder why thats an hell of an Game :D
Lol
The ambiance with the dog farts, priceless XD
James says they are playin single player so they can swap whenever they feel like it, then proceeds to play the entire game himself.😂
*CZcams Drama got you down? Take a break. Watch some AVGN*
never heard a comment so true before
delete this
It's my sleeping pill, I need to have something running in the background and it's nearly always AVGN. :P
lol same
Marcus Marcus "same dude"
Epic, Amazing game, I 101% completed it when I was a kid. I remember seeing the videos of the silicon graphics wireframe models of Donkey Kong and Diddy they used when making this game. One of my best Christmas' ever when I got DKC. I still remember a cheat at the start of the game "dyddy" down, Y, down down Y.
The earliest game I can remember to utilize a Gravity reversing mechanic was MetalStorm for the NES published by IREM.
I love how the conversation devolved into discussing dog farts after a while. :D
♪sbd♪
*♪SBD♪*
I knew that day will eventually come and you guys will play DKC! I remember when James had trouble turning it off, when he was doing footage for SNES vs Genesis episode. It's one of the best series ever made. So much imagination, creativity, passion and work was put into those that it's just staggering, mindblowing. The atmosphere, music and simple pleasure of the gameplay are very high here. Cannot get much better than DKC series!
10:14 used to watch all these shows on nick-at-night with my late Grandmother. Great memories.
Now please play DKC2. It's the best game in the trilogy and in my opinion, the best game ever made.
+cedandxav AMEN
+SirArsen I actually like DKC3. As a kid, it felt like the game who had the most mystery. I remember spending about 2 hours trying to go up a waterfall to visit new worlds only to discover 10 years later that you had to get dk coins to get there. =) I also think that the bosses are the best in DKC3. They had a better variety and were just more fun and difficult.
haha haha best game ever made if that wasn't a fan boy statement I don't know what is
+b toki85 but it is the best game ever made
I do have DKC2 on GBA, but I prefer the SNES versions a hundred times over.
4:38 Usually when a content creator references their own work it's taboo, but when James does it it's like Christmas
This is the game I play when I'm really stressed out. The gameplay and music just help chill me out and bring me to a better place. A must have SNES game.
Absolutely love this game. Sadly it was the only donkey Kong game I played. I don't want to brag but I completed the game with 107% of the secret completed. Also i won a Game Pro magazine contest for beating the game with with one of the highest secrets completion percentage. I had to take a picture of the screen and send it in for the contest. My prize for winning was any SNES game made by Nintendo that Nintendo developed. I chose Super Punch-Out 🥊
You are seriously missing out. DKC2 and 3 were fantastic games, especially the second which has probably the best soundtrack in the series. Go do it my metalhead friend.
Considering this game only has 101% it is very impressive that you got 107%.
Yakusoku no Ji Dude had skills.
107%?!?!? how the hell did you do that?!?
"I don't want to brag but here is two paragraphs worth of nonstop bragging"
3:57 I KNEW he was going to say "fuck off" hahahahaa how did I know
Just finished this a while ago. Great game with a fantastic soundtrack. I burst out laughing at the noises James was making towards the end because I was making those same noises while I was playing. This game is intense.
That snow stage is so damn epic!
James didn't know what parallax scrolling was called? It's interesting to see how self-taught James is when it comes to retro games, I'm sure he had his own name for it.
+Peter Washington he's getting old...
+corbinamondo he's like 35 ffs, not old enough to lose memory.
james knew what it was as a kid because of the genesis vs snes video idk why he didnt this particular videoi guess he just completely forgot about it
Patrick Andrews I was just joking, you know, like how people say once you're married and have children you're getting old and have no time for videogames anymore. But I'm sure we're all thankful James is one of those good guys who doesn't go for that crap!
corbinamondo
I sure hope he still makes time for recreational gaming
When the swordfish collects the tokens, mike zooms in a bit. It's very subtle but comedy gold, haha.
Memories of grandma's house are always portrayed through smells. I share this as well. My granny jake was all about baking, her house in the smoky mountains, and then later in McComb Mississippi smelled like the most comfortable place on earth. You could literally just sit and be fine. Of course, I had SNES with me many of the times I went.
Ahhh, I remember playing this for the Blockbuster World Video Game Championships. Good times.
That ending lmao
15:26 - 19:21 High class commentary. 😌👌
I've been waiting for this episode for so long! One of my favorite games of all time. Thanks!
I still can't figure out how they got this much fidelity out of the SNES. Truly a Genesis-killer of an app
The pre-rendered graphics actually have very little to do with the SNES hardware. Essentially it's like they made the whole thing out of gifs. It was just a clever idea that nobody had really thought of before.
Glozwell neato
Similar to some of the Ps1 games which came out after. My favorites were Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus, where they combined the backgrounds with animated transitions. Everything was prerendered and it looked far better than any realtime-3D game... Except for MGS or Crash Bandicoot 3. ;)
Oddworld on ps1 was goddamn epic. So hard though! Dark souls of 1998.
It's not that no one though of it before, it was that there wasn't enough memory on the cartridges to support that kind of game
+Musta Jeesus
Well, DKC did... And DKC 2... And DKC 3... And Killer Instinct... And Super Mario RPG... And Clay Fighter... And a whole lot of other games I don't remember right now. :P
Watching you guys play takes my back to playing with my buddies when I was a kid back in the day.
James Yor right!!!! That music from that final stage!!!! Its so sick! I was always looking for that. You used it in in one of your episodes of AVGN that reminded me of it again. That transition from jolly roger sound to synth rock sound is EPIC!!!
Quit hogging the joypad, James.
The lack of roll jumping really grinds my gears.
You're everywhere
Chris Macnerly I truly am.
+Kumo Hime (Rin) I'm honestly impressed how well he did not knowing about it, especially on levels like tanked up trouble.
+Drew Sebastino I beat the game without knowing about it back in the day, so it is possible, but yes, roll jumping makes a lot of things easier.
qv43v It's always kind of hilarious watching people freak out about trying to get KONG letters or other items they believe are impossible to get because they don't know you can roll jump. I don't even remember how I got to learning it, probably just on accident.
About learning things on accident, I really want to know how anyone found the final bonus room in Oil Drum Alley... I had promised myself I'd find every bonus room in the game by myself, but I eventually gave in after jumping off the edge countless times to try to find a bonus barrel and I didn't feel sorry for looking it up when I found out how cryptically hidden it was.
Loved Donkey Kong Country as a kid and loved the video!
Keep up the good videos, James and Mike. The humor towards the end made me almost fall off my seat.
The way James holds the controller lol. Looks like he's driving a car
I remember randomly getting a VHS in the mail full of behind the scene shit a few months before this came out. Not sure how or why I got it
+Adam Hauger Subscribers to Nintendo Power magazine all got it. Still have my copy!
Superliminal advertising
he'll yeah I still got it
+Adam Hauger I wasn't subscribed to Nintendo Power but i got it also. I remember them showing Killer instinct sneak peek at the end of the video. I was so pumped to get KI after seeing that.
holy shit i remember that! my friend down the street had it.
Awesome guys! I think you guys should do a run through of Clock Tower! It's an interesting game with great horror vibes, especially if you're fond of Dario Argento!
Thanks guys, hope you get to see my request. And as always thanks for the amazing content.
+Undead Dead Guy Thats a great game,i hope that they will get to play it someday.
I just really like that noise when James is pushing buttons and you can hear the snaps and switches of holding more than one button to run and jump back and forth. Classic.
I've been waiting for this to be a James and Mike Monday's episode for a long time! YES!
"I'm happy as a pig in shit that we're playing this right now" - James
Dudes. The best Christmas movie is Die Hard.
its a good movie that takes place on christmas how is that edgy?
fuckin' A, man.
Santa Claus and His Ho Ho Ho's
Christmas Vacation
Bad Santa
The convo about cats and litterboxes made me laugh so hard. Most of the cats I've had have been really fastidious about burying their leavings, but the few that haven't...man, I can relate.
Hearing the controller getting squeezed when he struggles haha
Surprised Mike's never played DKC2.
well I would like to see those two play it
Me, too.
Dr. Lemonade dkc2 is a total masterpiece.
I remember this game and by the way two words: Mine Carts!
James and Mike Monday's battle toads WE NEED THIS
Been waiting for this one. Great game that I haven't played in years. Love watching you guys play the oldies cheers!
14:40 I guess you could say, he BARRELY avoided that! Ok I'll leave now...
I can't BARREL to read this again.
Sonic The Hedgehog the Original Genesis Game had a cool Water Level.
23:54 lol at james's excited face
You're right Mike it was the Atari 7800 ep when the Nerd dropped the TV on his foot. For ages I thought it was the intro song to one of the followup games but after a while I finally remembered it was King K Rool's theme.
I remember Sonic the Hedgehog 3 had multi-layered backgrounds.
All the Sonic games did.
Weirddd, Mike talks about moving backrounds and the picture of Super Mario Bros in the background is movinggg 3:23
That's hilarious.
that's a curtain.
James' "FUCK!" at 2:55 while Mike is talking is absolutely epic.
At 3:34 did anyone else notice when he talked about parolax scrolling that back curtain caught a draft and moved 😂.
"playing this stage reminds me of smelling my dogs farts"
so fucking stoked u did this game finally!!!! omfg!!
+odiumimbues David wise was one of the best composers of the 20th century. I have remixes and trance music from all the donkey kongs on my favorites playlist. The music is perfect. Highly underrated composer. remember the name DAVID WISE
Hearing that rare logo start up is just pure bliss
The Bonus Stage song was always my favorite. To this day it makes me so happy and has been my ringtone for too long lmao
I think people are too hard on the Water Temple from Ocarina of Time honestly. That one isn't that hard either, it just takes some time.
For me it's the block that if you pull the wrong way you have to restart the whole game.
Great Bay is harder, imo
Octavia Black What block is that? I've never encountered this issue.
It's been too long but It's at the bottom level and is the only block pull puzzle in the temple .I always hated it as a kid .
Octavia Black Are you sure you you just didn't find the way out of that situation? I've had the game for years and literally never had this happen nor have I heard of it before so that's why I'm wondering. I mean, for the longest time I thought you could screw yourself in the Gerudo Training Grounds if you opened the doors in the incorrect order and run out of keys until I found where another one was hidden.
Donkey Kong Snes games are my favourite of all time. Many people shit on it today but IMO they still
hold up.
The laugh at the end gave me a great one to love watching y’all’s content
I kinda had a similar experience while playing a game. instead of a dog fart and donkey kong it was krispy kream and banjo tooie. Every time I play it I can't stop thinking about the doughnuts I ate while playing it.
Always liked DK2 better. I like the darker tone and look and the levels were more interesting then DK1. Still this game is awesome. DK3 is also pretty good but always found that one a let down after 2. It's tonally the polar opposite and they toned down the difficulty to much. Getting 100% in 3 was a joke.
+devilmikey00 Come on, DKC 3 was hard as shit! At least as difficult as 2, right?
+Kleavers No, 3 was pretty easy, especially compared to 2. I mean we're talking about getting all bonus and dk coins right?
The stages in that volcano world were pretty tough though
+HorseThief Never forget the scene in DK2 where the island sinks. Full sense of accomplishment right there. :)
"Reminds me of smelling my dogs farts"
God I hate dogs. Because of how stinky they are mostly.
The underwater music still gives me goosebumps all these years later. What a tune!
i was sick one Christmas and snoozed on and off through 12 hours of The Christmas Story marathon, good memory lol
talking about water. I'd like to know what you people think about Ecco the dolphin
that ending was the best ever. Does anyone remember that 3D animated DK series? I was so young, i'm pretty sure it was awful
"I d shower you with coconut cream pies!", basically its a b-show, like a b-movie, its literally baddie but goodie also the cheesy songs man.
It's pretty much a meme now, everyone knows about it.
+Westonator5000LP It was pretty fun to watch. You should check out the Annotated version here on CZcams.
it used to run on TV here. it's visually awful (well, not ReBoot level, but fair for a CG TV show in 1998 - it sucks more on character design), but it's pretty fun to watch.
James and mike, you two are the coolest guys on youtube ever, I wish I could hangout with you guys, we would be playing all kinds of games and talking about all kinds of crazy shit. James: you are my hero, mike: you are my role model. You guys bring so much joy and nostalgia to every great gamer that's ever lived, you have my support and my respect, I'll always be a huge fan of you guys, especially you james
This game defines my childhood playing video games.
tfw you realize from thier conversation your probably the exact same age as James and Mike
my mom bought a super nintendo for this game. she was very good at it.
Yep
hey James and Mike ..... I've been a huge fan since 2006 ..... keep up thoes Monday's ..... they literally make my week and give me a shout out Mike hahaha
Love this title. Indeed, it was a graphical feat to pull this off on the SNES, and the music for me was probably the best of any SNES title I'd ever heard at that point. Unforgettable.