Rool and his horde of Kremlings invade Donkey Kong Island, stealing all their bananas, causing the young Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy to depart on a journey to defeat the invaders and rescue their bananas.Īside from Donkey Kong Country, two other games originally released on the SNES and NES will also be making their way to Nintendo Switch Online, including Natsume Championship Wrestling, an action game based around professional wrestling, and The Immortal, an isometric action-adventure dark fantasy title.Īll three games will arrive on the Nintendo Switch Online platform on July 15.Įlsewhere in gaming, Ubisoft VP Maxime Beland has now resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations.

The reboot follows a now older Donkey Kong who has since moved to Donkey Kong Island and changes his moniker to Cranky Kong, passing his “Donkey Kong” title instead to his grandson. Now, though, players will have a chance to try the game.Originally launched back in 1994, Donkey Kong Country is a sidescrolling platformer building on the successful gorilla-featuring franchise first conceived in 1981. The game was tested among players, but scores were so low that it never got a full release. Nintendo executive Don James, who introduced the game in a Treehouse Live stream segment, said the company also released the 1981 arcade game “Sky Skipper,” which was never officially released in any capacity, according to The Verge. “Players can also compete against each other with their high scores, which is a nice callback to the arcade version.” “Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, so you can either challenge yourself or get to Lady at the top of the construction site for the first freakin' time,” wrote Mashable's Shannon Connellan. #ArcadeArchives Donkey Kong is the first-ever release of the complete arcade version outside of arcades, and it’s available now on #NintendoSwitch #eShop! /7YQh3h7JMT- Nintendo of America June 14, 2018Īs Nintendo explained, the Switch’s rereleased version of the game comes with the Japanese and international versions, giving you two games at once.

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