#SuperOldGameSaturday - Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (Super Nintendo)
0Originally Recorded/Aired on February 4th, 2023
It's no secret that I love the Donkey Kong Country series and have relished in every opportunity to play them for #SuperOldGameSaturday, but I'm not the only one, as ElecVerse, a frequent guest/collaborator in the best chat on Twitch, requested we play his favorite entry in the Super Nintendo trilogy, 1996's Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble and, since it's "ask and you shall receive" on this show, we did. For this play, we used the original Super Nintendo version and played this one to 105%, which required entering the TUFST code to remove all of the Continue barrels and DK barrels from the game, thus turning this into the hardest run of the trilogy, but one of the most rewarding. Along the way, ElecVerse, GemiKnight96, DollyFinn and the rest of the chat dove deep into this final 16-bit game of developer Rareware with me as we went through our memories of the series, this game, other games of Rare's, the artistry, great music and risks that makes this stand out from its already great predecessors and much more, as we found every Bonus level, DK coin, Banana Bird and item in this marathon play. As has always been the case, the chat in what's become our weekly gaming town hall had many great insights that we all learned from, while I showed the challenges of a completionist run of this game (and what makes us want to go that deep into such games, including the next game in the DK line-up, Donkey Kong 64) and we got to celebrate the most underrated DKC title to its fullest, as well as talking about our future shows and also, some extra practice run shows we'll be doing in the future (the first being on Friday, February 17th, at 9 PM EST). Again, I thank ElecVerse for this viewer request, as well as all of you watching in the chat and here on YouTube for making another great classic gaming experience and I hope you all enjoy our play of Donkey Kong Country 3 (and if you like what you see here, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag, usually on Saturday at 7 PM EST, to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week)!
Also, here is the Link List, containing the links to everything we referenced and/or linked to in the chat for this show:
A link to our Donkey Kong Country trilogy playlist that includes our full completion plays of all 3 Donkey Kong Country games in chronological order:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y_Zfgnh-6ZvTpDW8P7pCndn
A link to what I believe is the world record legitimate no warp runtime through Riverside Race in this game by Austinn "Davis Hallman, courtesy of SpeedDemosArchive.com:
https://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?DonkeyKongCountry3_Race_5240
A link to the YouTube site of Jammin' Sam Miller, who does great restored versions of video game music, including all of the Donkey Kong Country games and is well worth checking out, courtesy of Jammin' Sam Miller on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@JamminSamMiller
A link to Jammin' Sam Miller's great restored/extended version of Nuts 'n Bolts from Donkey Kong Country 3, courtesy of Jammin' Sam Miller on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9QXfu1H31U
A link to a discussion with musician David Wise regarding development of the Game Boy Advance editions of the Donkey Kong Country games (that we'll play on a future show) and technical constraints regarding adding the SNES soundtrack in alongside the GBA soundtrack he fully composed, courtesy of DKVine.com:
https://www.dkvine.com/?p=features&page=stamped_dkcgba
A link to the soundtrack of Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run for Super Nintendo that, like Donkey Kong Country 3, was composed by Eveline Novakovic and goes pretty incredibly hard for a baseball game, courtesy of The Cartridge Twins on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_jQxKbFLS8
A link to the teaser trailer of the 1992 film, K2: The Ultimate High, courtesy of Video Detective on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2NKf-ZycGE
A link to an article about the comedic rock band, Green Jellÿ, which may be being referenced in this game, courtesy of Wikipedia.org:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Jell%C3%BF
A link to the Spongebob Squarepants-themed song, Silence of the Sponge, by the aforementioned band, Green Jellÿ, courtesy of That Guy on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrrbpiaJR-U
A link to The Pink Panther Theme (the original version) by Henry Mancini, which the Jungle Jitter music in this game has a similar motif as, courtesy of Channel Four Cheeses on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGuEphxPawk
A link to our play of Katamari Damacy, which will go to our play of We Love Katamari on our next show:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y8ZYV3EdoLwNO1B6PsfztJV
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