Now, though, players will have a chance to try the game. Development began shortly after Rare founders Tim and Chris Stamper.

The game centres on Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong, who must recover their stolen bananas from King K. The game was tested among players, but scores were so low that it never got a full release. Donkey Kong Country a is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). 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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