The "General Games Chat" forum, which includes Retro Game Reviews, has been archived and is now read-only. You cannot post here or create a new thread or review on this forum.
This thread has been linked to the game 'Donkey Konga'.
Some people may know the following but the majority probably wont, hence my post to inform the uninformed :p
To be released on the Gamecube in Japan around Springtime 2004 - Donkey Konga is a game with a complete difference, if you can remember Samba De Amigo on the Dreamcast (the game which you played with a pair of maracas) then you're seeing whereabouts Donkey Konga is coming from.
Donkey Konga will ship with a set of small Konga drums and the basic object of the game will be to repeat drum beats etc... sounds dull? well you may be forgiven for thinking 'yea actually it sounds like total pants' but its gonna be a total smash when it hits the UK late next year (around november 2004 i heard but dont hold me to this).
Fans of this genre really should be foaming at the mouth reading this, whilst non-fans prepare to be converted and become toally addicted.
The game is ofcourse based around Donkey Kong and published by Nintendo.
Nintendo are still releasing for the GC late into next year so dont fret, the future of the six sided sensation is secure for a while yet despite what some 'think they know better' people may wish to tell you.
Rabid.
To be released on the Gamecube in Japan around Springtime 2004 - Donkey Konga is a game with a complete difference, if you can remember Samba De Amigo on the Dreamcast (the game which you played with a pair of maracas) then you're seeing whereabouts Donkey Konga is coming from.
Donkey Konga will ship with a set of small Konga drums and the basic object of the game will be to repeat drum beats etc... sounds dull? well you may be forgiven for thinking 'yea actually it sounds like total pants' but its gonna be a total smash when it hits the UK late next year (around november 2004 i heard but dont hold me to this).
Fans of this genre really should be foaming at the mouth reading this, whilst non-fans prepare to be converted and become toally addicted.
The game is ofcourse based around Donkey Kong and published by Nintendo.
Nintendo are still releasing for the GC late into next year so dont fret, the future of the six sided sensation is secure for a while yet despite what some 'think they know better' people may wish to tell you.
Rabid.
Page:
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Who cares about appeal? Nintendo develop the best platform games
> around. They have lost my sale on this one straights away. It would
> collect dust like a bloody light gun.
But it'll attract a whole host of gamers, mainly Japanese ones... who are attracted to this idea. If you want a console for a platform game you get Nintendo's console anyway... Donkey Kong or not.
Two things to remember:
1: Donkey Konga is another joint effort with Namco probably meaning that this game is created for the arcade systems as well... so Donkey Konga is probably an arcade game at heart.
2: And that Nintendo haven't said they aren't developing a Donkey Kong platformer.
> Who cares about appeal? Nintendo develop the best platform games
> around. They have lost my sale on this one straights away. It would
> collect dust like a bloody light gun.
But it'll attract a whole host of gamers, mainly Japanese ones... who are attracted to this idea. If you want a console for a platform game you get Nintendo's console anyway... Donkey Kong or not.
Two things to remember:
1: Donkey Konga is another joint effort with Namco probably meaning that this game is created for the arcade systems as well... so Donkey Konga is probably an arcade game at heart.
2: And that Nintendo haven't said they aren't developing a Donkey Kong platformer.
Who cares about appeal? Nintendo develop the best platform games around. They have lost my sale on this one straights away. It would collect dust like a bloody light gun.
Im really looking foward to this, its nice to have a game that you can just sit and play on a lazy sunday.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> I can't believe they aren't making another Donkey Kong platform game.
> A bloody drum game... Ha!
Yes because another platform game is exactly what Nintendo need to widen their appeal...
> I can't believe they aren't making another Donkey Kong platform game.
> A bloody drum game... Ha!
Yes because another platform game is exactly what Nintendo need to widen their appeal...
I can't believe they aren't making another Donkey Kong platform game. A bloody drum game... Ha!
TGMbloke wrote:
> And left him for years and years and years - actually, decades.
>
> Oh - and he never even had a tie when Nintendo made him. He was just
> a Monkey named "Donkey". Rare made him what he is: A monkey
> named "Donkey" with a tie.
The Donkey Kong released before Rare's reinvention was a NES title released 2 years before. Not a great thing really :D
> Im not saying Nintendo are not original - they are, constantly. BUT -
> this is not original. So don't get excited about it. Nintendo have,
> and will doa again, better.
We weren't getting excited because it was original... we're getting excited because it'll be fantastic.
> And left him for years and years and years - actually, decades.
>
> Oh - and he never even had a tie when Nintendo made him. He was just
> a Monkey named "Donkey". Rare made him what he is: A monkey
> named "Donkey" with a tie.
The Donkey Kong released before Rare's reinvention was a NES title released 2 years before. Not a great thing really :D
> Im not saying Nintendo are not original - they are, constantly. BUT -
> this is not original. So don't get excited about it. Nintendo have,
> and will doa again, better.
We weren't getting excited because it was original... we're getting excited because it'll be fantastic.
TGMbloke wrote:
> Yay for Nintendo. They stole Rares Re-Invented Donkey Kong and stuck
> him in a much under-appreciated stolen SEGA game. Oh, how they are
> the original ones.
Rare's re-invention of Donkey Kong = good guy, rides animals, jumps, collects bannana's etc...
Nintendo's own use for the character = a game involving Bongo's...
Yes I see the similarity too.
And naturally it does play homage to Samba Da amigo but then again Nintendo aren't prentending it isn't. It's nice to see the great idea hasn't gone to waste...
Oh and don't forget Namco are making it.
> Yay for Nintendo. They stole Rares Re-Invented Donkey Kong and stuck
> him in a much under-appreciated stolen SEGA game. Oh, how they are
> the original ones.
Rare's re-invention of Donkey Kong = good guy, rides animals, jumps, collects bannana's etc...
Nintendo's own use for the character = a game involving Bongo's...
Yes I see the similarity too.
And naturally it does play homage to Samba Da amigo but then again Nintendo aren't prentending it isn't. It's nice to see the great idea hasn't gone to waste...
Oh and don't forget Namco are making it.
No one speak ill of the Donkey Kong Country.
Nintendo would have reinvented him anyway.
Seeing as they made him.......
Seeing as they made him.......
That'd be cool if they gave you a pair of drumsticks to plug in, then you beat all of the drums or whatever in the same way you use the eye toy.
THen, you get a friend to play it with a secret camera and watch how stupid he looks.
:-D
Please note, can also be done for eyetoy.
THen, you get a friend to play it with a secret camera and watch how stupid he looks.
:-D
Please note, can also be done for eyetoy.
Page: