This is what happens when Cranky Kong gets tired of giving Donkey Kong tips.

Nintendo’s New Play Control series is about to roll out in Europe in a few weeks. In March it’s trickling over here with Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis as the first two titles. Back in Japan Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was the introductory game for the series. Are we going to get Donkey Kong [...]

Pikmin and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Wii-makes are slated to come out in Japan this December. In 2009 Nintendo plans to release five more games in the Play On Wii series. Chibi Robo, Pikmin 2, Mario Power Tennis, Metroid Prime, and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. The two Metroid Prime games should be fine if they [...]

Nintendo is going full throttle with Gamecube Wii-makes in Japan starting with Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, the first game in the Wii de Asobu series. When I heard about this I imagined Nintendo slapping on the shaking from Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast, but Nintendo is going for classic controls with Wii version. You move [...]

Is Nintendo going to derail hype from Microsoft’s press conference with a killer list of WiiWare / Virtual Console games? No, unless you’ve been waiting to play Major League Eating: The Game. Mastiff’s realistic competitive eating game includes all the fun of gorging hot dogs and belching with online play over Nintendo Wi-Fi. The 1,000 [...]

All of the retro arcade news with Dig Dug and Frogger reminded me of techno artist Moby. In his 2002 music video “We Are Made of Stars”, Moby parades around in an astronaut outfit and stumbles into an arcade. To avoid showing Pac-Man and other copyrighted characters, Moby in the astronaut suit is used as [...]

Nintendo opened up the official site for Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race (aka DK Bongo Blast outside of Japan). Similar to Super Paper Mario, Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race was originally developed as a Gamecube game where players would bang on the DK Bongos to make Donkey Kong fly his jet. Instead of bundling bongos [...]

One of the final titles for the Gamecube that got a last minute transition to the Wii (coming out on June 28 in Japan!) was DK Bongo Blast (aka Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race). DK Bongo Blast would be like any other mascot racing game except for the unique control scheme. Essentially you’re racing on [...]

 
While Japan got a strong initial line up for the Wii Virtual Console only one out of the three new games released today are new. Donkey Kong Country (aka Super Donkey Kong) is online for the price of 800 points. Rare’s Donkey Kong platformer was one of the best games on the Super NES and [...]

Poor barrel throwing Donkey Kong never stood a chance against Mega Man and his mega buster. Maybe Mega Man will put the barrel toss skill to better use against Dr. Wily.