Hopefully, Wart wonβt also be turned into flaming roadkill within five seconds of reappearing.
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Hopefully, Wart wonβt also be turned into flaming roadkill within five seconds of reappearing.
In all honestly, Wart is still not as shocking as seeing THIS guy pop up in the original Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Bananza runs the risk of gradually desensitizing Donkey Kong geeks into forgetting the years where weβd have minimal fan service. Swanky Kong was one of the deepest pulls in 2023!
I'm ready for MAR10 Day!
Nintendo right now
Same! Super Mario Bros. 2 was one of my earliest gaming memories, and not understanding the history behind it, I was disenchanted with Super Mario Bros. 3 when it came out and "reverted" the style back to the first game.
Subcon, Shy Guys, Phantos, Mouser, Fry Guy. That's my Mario.
Hey, Nintendo.
You wanna really make up for the loss of Banjo-Kazooie?
Unlikely. Bananza was nipping at the heels of DKC2. I haven't felt as passionate about a video game as I do about Bananza since I was a kid.
Between this, Donkey Kong as a powerhouse franchise with its entire history being honored, and the return of the Virtual Boy, it sort of feels like I've been running Nintendo when I sleepwalk.
Before Donkey Kong Country lured me away like a sultry homewrecker, I was a Super Mario kid. And because of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, the Super Mario Bros. 2/Super Mario USA/Doki Doki Panic characters had an outsized presence in my understanding of Mario's world.
So... this is surreal.
The Kongversation (Season 14) t-shirt by Dustin Jackson. Features the Kongversation Season 14 album artwork, a golden microphone in the center of the swirling, goopy Banandium Root, on a yellow shirt in two different designs (one with the Kongversation logo and microphone and one without).
Allow your Root to show and let the whole Underground World know that you groove to four-hour podcasts about apes with the t-shirt of the #Kongversation's upcoming Season 14! It's now available on our merchandise page in three different colors, with or without the logo!
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I'll be doing another episode of the podcast on it at some point in the next few months!
Nonsense. I have very diverse and eclectic tastes.
Banjo-Tooie coming to NSO in 2024 reminded me of how much I genuinely love that game, giving it the edge over SFA. The recency bias for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has also faded, as it would have also been up there a few short years ago.
Huh, so today is the 25th anniversary of Conker's Bad Fur Day? Cool.
I played through and wrote about the game last year for @sourcegaming.info. It's hardly one of my favorites, but it is a fascinating game and I do appreciate it.
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Top 9 games made with my9games.com. 1. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddyβs Kong Quest 2. Donkey Kong Bananza 3. Sea of Thieves 4. Banjo-Kazooie 5. Grabbed by the Ghoulies 6. Diddy Kong Racing 7. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kongβs Double Trouble! 8. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze 9. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Donkey Kong Bananza really shook up my Top 10 List last year. This is just my Top 9 though, since everyone is doing it with my9games.com. Enjoy all of the brown-furred animals.
(Currently, Banjo-Tooie would be #10)
A shot glass that reads Conkerβs Bad Fur Day filled with single malt, Speyside, no ice. The caption on the photo reads Happy 25th Anniversary Conker!
Cranky Kong using an old-timey "candlestick" phone, talking to King K. Rool on a high-tech (at the time) 1995 cell phone. They are both laughing as they discuss flying pigs and that terrible direction-changing platform.
The Planning of Donkey Kong Land
(1995, Colorized because it was on the Game Boy)
#DonkeyKong #AltersArtTag
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Conker's Bad Fur Day is 25 today! Here's a few pieces of Conker art I've done, including the gamer pic I designed for Rare's 40th anniversary!
Oh, this was the height of South Park and transgressive late 1990s shock humor. It's certainly a time capsule for sure.
Honestly, the late-game portions of Bad Fur Day (such as Conker reflecting on the pointlessness of war) are what really hold up. Not that I don't still love a giant poo monster!
Conker shakes "confidence pills" out of a medicine jar. Conker: "Confidence pills." Screenshot from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
So yeah, it'll always be remarkable to me that Rare had the gusto to go down the route it did with Bad Fur Day. And it certainly distinguished the game from both Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong, giving Conker his own specific niche within the annals (and in many cases, the anals) of Rare history!
The "Conker's BFD" variant of the Bad Fur Day logo.
Eight days later, Rare updated its website with an "under construction" page for CBFD, with characters cursing at you when you clicked on the logo. "Why don't you take that mouse and stick it up your ***?" "We're not ready yet, dumbass!" "Which bit of ***ing off do you not understand?" Et al.
Conker leans against the Rareware logo. In-game model from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Lots of jokes were had that Conker was taking so long because Rare was overhauling it for adults with over-the-top violence and sex. It was a gag that always got a laugh... but little did we know that's what was actually happening! In January 2000, we learned it was now titled Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Conker opens a book with a picture of a windmill on a grassy hill that says "World: 1, Level: 1" on one page and "Conker: New Game, Load Game, Save Game" on another. Screenshot from Twelve Tales: Conker 64.
By late 1999, it was common wisdom that Twelve Tales was in some state of development hell. And the fandom that had been growing up alongside Rare's games of the mid-to-late 1990s was then getting older and more jaded. The overtly cutesy nature of Conker was becoming something of a punchline.
Banjo-Kazooie was released in mid-1998 (with the promise of Banjo-Tooie to come), and the Hype Cycle for Donkey Kong 64 immediately kicked into overdrive at the beginning of 1999. But Conker? Only the occasional update, with his first solo game instead becoming Conker's Pocket Tales in June 1999.
A 1998 subscription ad for Nintendo Power featuring Banjo, Kazooie, and Conker performing in a band on stage.
See, if you were a platformer fan, the three Rare games you were watching from late 1997 on were Conker's Quest (later renamed to Twelve Tales: Conker 64), Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64, the latter of which was an open secret but not actually announced until January 1st, 1999.
The Conker's Bad Fur Day title screen, with the logo appearing over Conker sitting on the throne in the former Panther King's throne room, surrounded by several of the weirdos from the game. Screenshot from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Today, Conker's Bad Fur Day turns 25!
It's easy to take for granted if all you've ever known is BFD being the "naughty" game with diarrhea and piss, but having followed it since E3 1997 (as Conker's Quest) and the character's debut in Diddy Kong Racing, it's still surreal that this even happened...
A fortified gate of a fortress at sea fills most of the image. Cannonballs fly from behind it, while a plucky crew of pirates rows a small boat towards it.
Season 18: Act 3 is now live, bringing two towering Ashen Garrisons to The Devil's Roar! You'll need to breach the walls and fight inside if you'd like to liberate the locked and guarded stack of spoils. Ashen Garrisons also have a chance of containing a Mega Stash during Act 3!
Stop frowning DK!
Conker and Berri standing next to each other, alongside Fajo the Money and a panicking piece of Sweetcorn.
Happy 25th, ol' chums #ConkersBadFurDay #Conker #RareWare
