{"id":1422,"date":"2012-10-18T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T11:30:27","slug":"my-top-100-65-donkey-kong-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #65 – Donkey Kong Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the last post,\u00a0I mentioned that I loved snowy levels in video games.\u00a0 After looking at\u00a0my “super-secret”\u00a0top 100 list\u00a0to see which game I’d be writing about next, I found it funny that it was a snowy level that really\u00a0made me think this game was something special.<\/p>\n

In the 8-and-16-bit eras,\u00a0I\u00a0can’t\u00a0recall\u00a0many games having more hype than Donkey Kong Country<\/em>.\u00a0 Of course, I may have been a little over-exposed to it, having a subscription to Nintendo Power <\/em>and all.\u00a0 Where Sega had “blast processing”, Nintendo would\u00a0tout “ACM (Advanced Computer Modelling)” as the future of video games.\u00a0 Pre-rendered 3D graphics on a 16-bit console was a big deal, and they made sure all us readers knew it!<\/p>\n

Issue after issue, I was buying into the hype.\u00a0 I was convinced that I would love this game, and even though\u00a0someone would always beat us to Blockbuster after its release in November of ’94, I\u00a0got it for Christmas that year without having played a minute of\u00a0it beforehand.<\/p>\n

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