Although the two games run on the same engine and have the same areas, the layouts on each of the levels are new. It was considerably closer in design to its 16-bit counterpart than Donkey Kong Land had been, featuring the same level names, enemies, music, and characters as Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and is commonly mistaken for a handheld port of the 16-bit game in consequence (however, this is untrue). The second installment in the Donkey Kong Land series is Donkey Kong Land 2, released for the Game Boy in 1996. When playing the game on a Super Game Boy, the game is shown with a special jungle-themed border. The game's story is an addition to the story in Donkey Kong Country Cranky Kong believed that the apes' latest adventure in Donkey Kong Country was only popular because of 'fancy graphics,' so the two heroes set out on a second journey on an 8-bit system, where they retrieve the banana hoard from King K. It does, however, lack several features seen in the Super Nintendo game, such as Donkey Kong's Hand Slap move, and the level names are not displayed on-screen (they can be found in the instruction manual). While some music and enemies are similar, it features fewer similarities to its Country counterpart than later installments, with a different set of levels and environments. The first installment in the Donkey Kong Land series is Donkey Kong Land, released for the Game Boy in 1995. Every SNES game in the Donkey Kong Country series has a Donkey Kong Land game released alongside it and the two series share characters, plots and music.Įvery game in the series can be played in enhanced form on a Super Game Boy, where they all have different special borders and feature more colors, except for the Game Boy Color remake for Donkey Kong Land III. The series is based on the Donkey Kong Country series, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System series of games. Donkey Kong Land stars Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong Land 2 stars Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong and Donkey Kong Land 3 stars Dixie Kong and Kiddy Kong, who travel through numerous levels in order to defeat King K. The Donkey Kong Land series is an 8-bit video-game series in the Donkey Kong franchise, created by Rareware for the Game Boy systems.

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