In Tropical Freeze, Donkey Kong and his family must venture across five islands to save their home, Donkey Kong Island, after it is frozen over by the villainous Snowmads - a group of invaders from the northern seas. Like its predecessor, the game received generally positive reviews.

The aim of the game is to make your way through each level by solving puzzles and avoiding enemies in their traps.

Overall, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze ​may be too challenging for some younger players, but the addition of Funky mode and the high watermark of Nintendo quality is written all over this island-hopping tale.

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Donkey Kong Country is a side-scrolling platform game. A reboot of the Donkey Kong franchise, its story begins when King K. Rool and his army of crocodiles, the Kremlings, steal the Kongs' banana hoard. The gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong set out to reclaim the hoard and defeat the Kremlings.

"Opening" is a musical theme composed by Yukio Kaneoka for the Nintendo Entertainment System version of Donkey Kong. It has become a recurring music theme throughout the Donkey Kong franchise, as well as some games in the Super Mario franchise that include Donkey Kong, most notably the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.

The single-player traverses 40 side-scrolling levels as they jump between platforms and avoid obstacles. They collect items, ride minecarts and animals, defeat enemies and bosses, and find secret bonus stages. In multiplayer modes, two players work cooperatively or race each other.

The default controls needed to play this game are left stick or d-pad to move and to swim the A or the B button to jump. Pressing Y or X does corkscrew while you're swimming. Y and X also do ground-pound and your roll attack. ZL or ZR do your pluck.

Tropical Freeze is hard, and if you want to play the difficult-but-fair original version, you can. Playing as Funky Kong, however, functions as an easy mode. He has more hearts and does not take damage from spike pits.

The game can be difficult, but not too difficult, and the new funky mode makes it all too easy. Parents should know that it contains mild cartoon violence and really nothing else.

The original Donkey Kong Country in 1994 blew many away for its unique, 3D pre-rendered art style, its secret-filled level design, its co-op play, its gameplay, and its special sound design and soundtrack composed by David Wise.

The name “Donkey Kong” comes from a mash-up of “King-Kong”- a Japanese phrase used across the country for a gorilla, and the first English word creator Miyamoto found to describe “Stubborn and dumb”. In 1982, Universal sued Nintendo over the use of Donkey Kong as it was too similar to their film King Kong.

stubborn ape Miyamoto used "donkey" to convey "stubborn" in English; while "Kong" was simply to imply him being a "large ape", the name Donkey Kong was intended to convey "stubborn ape" to the American audience. When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, people laughed, but the name stuck.

Donkeys were found in the works of Homer, Aesop and Apuleius, where they were generally portrayed as stupid and stubborn, or servile at best, and generally represented the lower class. They were often contrasted with horses, which were seen as powerful and beautiful.

In Donkey Kong, the hero, originally called "Jumpman" (who would later become the Mario we all recognize), must save his girlfriend from the clutches of a giant ape named Donkey Kong. The game's visuals were designed to reflect a comic book influence.

Donkey Kong is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Jumpman, the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla named Donkey Kong.