Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is a reboot of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise and follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set out to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Rool and his army, the Kremlings. The single-player traverses 40 side-scrolling levels as they jump between platforms and avoid obstacles. They collect items, ride minecarts and animals, defeat enemies and bosses, and find secret bonus stages. In multiplayer modes, two players work cooperatively or race each other.
Rare founders Tim and Chris Stamper (right to left) in 2015
Rare used SGI Challenge workstations (pictured) to produce Donkey Kong Country's pre-rendered visuals.
Donkey Kong Country was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (pictured) when it was beginning to face competition from next-generation hardware.
Apocryphal rumours spread that the Donkey Kong creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, (pictured in 2015) disliked Donkey Kong Country.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles.
Headquarters in Kyoto, Japan
Original Nintendo headquarters (1889–1930) and workshop in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, c. 1889. The right section was eventually rebuilt (pictured below), and the left section was reportedly demolished in 2004.
Nintendo karuta poster from the Meiji era
Former Nintendo headquarters (1933–1959), rebuilt from the right section of the original building