Shh Mom!: Gaming Icon 3 - David Wise

silverhawk79 · 2011-03-01T12:13:53Z

David Wise has been responsible for perhaps some of your greatest childhood memories. Remember playing Donkey Kong Country? DKC2? DKC3? Chances are, you've heard his music.

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CrimsonWing69556d ago

We be old.

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PRIMORDUS556d ago

I stil have the VHS tape Nintendo mailed to Nintendo Power subscribers. https://m.media-amazon.com/...

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Kakashi Hatake556d ago

I got this game with a Super Nintendo on Christmas '94. Ridiculous to think that was 30 years ago.

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LG_Fox_Brazil556d ago

My parents got me this one the year it was released, good Lord, I am old. Masterpiece, by the way

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Profchaos556d ago

Yeah I remember one Christmas morning opening up a Gameboy bundled with DK land that was an under rated port Nintendo was foolish to let rare go

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Knightofelemia556d ago (Edited 556d ago )

I still have this game my mother bought it for me on my birthday along with Killer Instinct.

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RonsonPL553d ago (Edited 553d ago )

1. Animation is better than 99,99% of sidescrolled platform games released in 2020-2024
Just look at the shitty, clunky and downright amateur animations in games being made now.
2. Graphics still look better on CRT or 4K TV via retrotink or proper CRT filter, compared to 90% platform games released in 2024. It has a nice style. It was one of its kind. Now 99% of indie games in the genre look the same, generic, ugly, infantile, sterile, "paper like" or with "realistic" vibe which only makes things dull, washed out and ugly.
3. The gameplay and polish is on a different level.
4. We don't even have clear motion in gaming anymore. You can see HIGHER RESOLUTION of the image in this 30 year old game than when you play new shit on 4K TV without BFI/backlight strobing
5. The game doesn't put me off with infantile design. This game was for everyone, with respect to male adult gamers, unlike it is now, where we get a big middle finger.
6. Music. I don't think I even need to type anything here. Modern games will either give you generic crap, or some melanholic sad pianos or japaneese pop vibes (to the delight of the John from Digital Foundry ;) )

And lastly:
Let me just remind you: This game ran on a console equipped with 256KB of RAM.

I remember seeing DKC advertisement (or was it just gamplay being showd on some gaming related TV progam? Not sure) on TV in 1994. I was blown away. I couldn't believe my eyes and I wanted this game so badly.
30 years later I want games ON THIS LEVEL as badly as I wanted to play DKC back then. But back then, I only needed a few years until emulators showed up (My country didn't have Nintendo distribution in SNES times). This time I'm waiting more already.

Highest quality side scrolled platform game genre regressed so badly. :(
There's like 1 very good game per 3-5 years, if you don't like infantilism, stealth and sad/horror games. Or anime, like what they did to Prince of Persia in its newest side scrolled installment (God.. whyy....:( )