Enough's enough chaps, we've had all the best ones - third parties took care of the others - and you know it can only go downhill from here.īut no. Arguably though (and I do want to argue about this one), that's where it should have stopped. Not as much as the Mario games, for obvious reasons (mainly that they were much better), but in a sort of nostalgic 'I played this all Christmas day in the early 90s and ooh crap it was gorgeous' kind of sickening rose-tinted sort of way. Sure, graphics improved, level designs got craftier and more imaginative, and enemies learnt how to move around the screen properly after that, but the point is it was ace and still is.Īnd, of course, Nintendo also thrust Donkey Kong Country upon us again with another handheld port. 3, which was probably a defining moment in this reviewer's young life when it originally appeared. As for Yoshi's Island - arguably it was even better (in fact, since I don't want to argue about it, they were both top), and then there was Super Mario Bros. But then that was a feat of precision that would make Audi engineers vomit in admiration. Perhaps it was the joy of playing something like that again on a shiny new handheld, or perhaps we're just idiots, but we liked it.

It was inevitable then, that when Nintendo decided to re-release 400 of them on the Game Boy Advance, we were going to get cross with one sooner or later. They were to that generation what third-person action games are to this ubiquitous, varying in quality, largely the same sort of thing, and generally flawed in all the same ways.

Back in 1996, when DKC2 first graced these shores (that's Blighty, by the way - I'm sure it came out in other places beforehand), the Super Nintendo was rife with the things.

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