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504: Donkey Kong Country

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Donkey Kong Country

As early as 1991 this game was in development so like four years on a platformer and obviously while they're working on it Donkey Kong Country becomes a huge hit. It's too late for them to go back and make it a pre-rendered game but I think that's why they overcompensate in a good way with the 2D graphics. The fact that we went from Mario World to Mario World 2 which looks like it came from a completely different much more advanced console is wild, he says. "It's just kind of the SNES was off the chain like absolutely"

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