When I turned on my Game Boy and began playing stage one however, I was alarmed to find that the large sprites were quite hard to see against the detailed scrolling backgrounds! So much so, that I found myself losing life after life, trying my best to make sense of the muddy tones of green that wildly smeared across the screen as I played. I was a big fan of the SNES version that had exploded onto the market a year earlier, and was excited to see Rareware’s take on Donkey Kong barrel it’s way onto Nintendo’s handheld console. It all gradually evolves into something that doesn’t feel quite like the legendary arcade title, and instead feels like the perfect Game Boy game.When I was 10, I remember playing Donkey Kong Land when it was first released back in 1995. and breaks from the original formula by adding scrolling screens.

It also incorporates features from Donkey Kong Jr. However, Donkey Kong greatly expands the basic mechanics in a lot of different ways. Rampage tried that, and anyone who has played through its 768 levels will tell you that it wasn’t a good idea.

You may be wondering how you can stretch the arcade gameplay of Donkey Kong across a hundred-or-so levels. Pauline is snatched from Mario’s grasp, and Donkey Kong takes off through about a bajillion more stages.

If you take the time to experiment with the controls, you might learn that Mario has quite a few new tricks up his sleeve, but there’s no indication that you should (assuming you didn’t read the instruction manual while eating Pizza Hut with your mom on the way home.) Donkey Kong then continues this illusion through four stages of arcade action before it finally plays its hand.

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