Donkey Kong Land (GB)

"Donkey Kong Land" is a video game released for the Gameboy console in 1995 by Nintendo. It is the first game of a trilogy. In the United States, the game received a rating of "K&A" by the ESRB panel which deemed it suitable for both "Kids and Adults". Gameplay reflects the platform genre. In it, players control both Donkey and Diddy Kong and guide them on a long adventure. It is a simple matter of guiding one from "point A" to "point B" while avoiding enemies and gathering items. A few obvious technical faults crop up in the title. In order to utilize the game's "save" function the player must ...  Read the complete review

When I heard of Donkey Kong Land for the Gameboy, I thought "How can a game with such lush 16 bit graphics be ported to a black and white 8-bit system??" But I bought it, and it's incredible; the graphics look 16 bit, I swear. It may be black and white but it looks so much like Donkey Kong country it'll make your eyes pop out. Well, your eyes won't actually pop out but you get the idea. I'd say it easily has some of the best graphics ever seen on the gameboy. The gameplay is excellent as well, both Diddy and Donkey Kong control like a dream, though some of the courses involve old school "nearly impossible, ...  Read the complete review

When I heard of Donkey Kong Land for the Gameboy, I thought "How can a game with such lush 16 bit graphics be ported to a black and white 8-bit system??" But I bought it, and it's incredible; the graphics look 16 bit, I swear. It may be black and white but it looks so much like Donkey Kong country it'll make your eyes pop out. Well, your eyes won't actually pop out but you get the idea. I'd say it easily has some of the best graphics ever seen on the gameboy. The gameplay is excellent as well, both Diddy and Donkey Kong control like a dream, though some of the courses involve old school "nearly impossible, ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who ever had a SNES will have had or played on Donkey Kong. Well this is basically the same. You either play Donkey or Diddy over loads of 2D levels. All the format is 2D the characters are made to look 3D with 2D backgrounds. The levels all follow a linear platform and you have to negotiate your way through the levels by jumping over gaps and jumping from moving platform to moving platform whilst avoiding baddies on the way. Although this sounds fairly simple it is anything but, some other jumps you have to pull off may take you a number of times to achieve. This game in general is very difficult to complete as it is both hard and long. The graphics as good as ...  Read the complete review