Which period of time is the least discussed from the height of Donkey Kong Country Mania? The months before Donkey Kong Country Mania! The Kongversation goes back 30 years to the summer of 1994 when Nintendo of America announced DKC, and their whole new attitude, to the world at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show!

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Host: Hyle Russell
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Music: Matt Cornah

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The Kongversation 1228 - Donkey Kong Country in Summer of ‘94

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several days, you know that Banjo-Tooie is coming to Nintendo Switch Online. Hyle and Dustin discuss the surprising announcement that took Rare and DKU fandom off-guard and also what this means for the rest of Rare's Nintendo library!

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The Kongversation Mini 032 - Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo Switch

The original Donkey Kong Country introduced or reinvented several all-time classic video game characters. But out of the 17 core, singular characters in the game, where do they rank? Hyle and Jeff put the Kongs, Animal Buddies, and Bosses of DKC through Tier Maker to see how they stack up to each other... using only the criteria of their performance and presentation in that very first game!

Final results: https://dkvine.com/kongversation/tier_list_dkc.png

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Special Guest: Jeff Onan
Music: Matt Cornah

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The Kongversation 1243 - Tiers of a Kong: Donkey Kong Country

Broadcast live on https://twitch.tv/dkvine on the 30th anniversary of Donkey Kong Country's release in the Americas, Hyle and Malik reflect on three decades of DKC dominance!

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Host: Hyle Russell
Special Guest: Malik McLeod
Music: Matt Cornah

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The Kongversation 1244 - 30 Years of Donkey Kong Country

Crazy 2 Parter remix of Gobi's Valley from Banjo Kazooie. completed batshit bonkers silly billy style. this has been in the works for a long time, caused a lot of brain rot.

Gobi's Revenge Part 1

Gobi's revenge Part 2

What made Donkey Kong Country such a unique, groundbreaking cultural event for Nintendo fans in 1994? Yes, it was the graphics, music, sound, and game design. But as Hyle and Dustin argue, it was also the instruction booklet's unique sense of humor. The Kongversation opens up Dan Owsen's manual masterpiece!

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Music: Matt Cornah

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The Kongversation 1245 - Manual Transmission: Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong 64 turned 25 years old on November 22, 2024. Celebrated DK64 fan and annual 101% streamer of the game Courtney joins the show to discuss the Kongs' sole 3D platforming adventure (thus far), the complicated position it holds within the fandom, and how the Donkey Kong 64 Randomizer has breathed life into it for a new generation! (Unlike Wrinkly Kong.)

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The Kongversation 1246 - 25 Years of Donkey Kong 64

All three Donkey Kong Land games have finally arrived on Nintendo Switch Online! Hyle and Malik discuss why these counterparts to the classic Donkey Kong Country titles are so important to DK fanatics of the 1990s, then share some obscure or little-discussed Donkey Kong Land trivia!

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The Kongversation 1247 - The Donkey Kong Land Trilogy on the Nintendo Switch

The Geek Critique returns to the Kongversation to help Hyle grapple with a newly relevant question now that Banjo-Tooie is on Nintendo Switch Online: What is it about the game that's historically kept it from clicking with fans of even the original Banjo-Kazooie, or inspired rabid devotion that eclipses all else? With NSO making it easier than ever to get into it and helping to mitigate the issues for the former, Hyle believes he has an answer for the latter. Banjo-Tooie is the ultimate game for Rare sickos!

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Music: Matt Cornah

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The Kongversation 1248 - Banjo-Tooie: A Game for Rare Sickos

Donkey Kong Country 2 es un videojuego de plataformas creado en 1995, desarrollado por la compañía británica Rare y publicado por Nintendo para la consola Super Nintendo.
Música original compuesta por David Wise.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Stickerbrush symphony (eSencia remake)

Donkey Kong Country es un videojuego de plataformas creado en 1994, desarrollado por la compañía británica Rare y publicado por Nintendo para la consola Super Nintendo.
Música original compuesta por David Wise.

Donkey Kong Country: Aquatic ambiance (eSencia remake)

Chiptune remix of the Pelagic 2 track from Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark - Pelagic 2 (David Clynick Chiptune Remix)

Broadcast live on https://www.twitch.tv/dkvine the day of the June 2025 Xbox Showcase, Hyle and Gibbon make the best out of a fairly uneventful showing for Rare and DKU fans! Sea of Thieves was there just as we predicted, Everwild was not, and some harsh scolding is directed towards those deliberately riling up Banjo-Kazooie fans. But hey, how about that Rare 40th anniversary logo? A time to laugh, a time to weep. To everything, turn, turn, turn!

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The Kongversation 1317 - Stinky Ape Summer 2025: Xbox Showcase

Original music: “Pause/Menu Theme” from GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64)
Composers: Grant Kirkhope, Graeme Norgate
Developer/Publisher: Rare Ltd. / Nintendo

FULL LYRICS - https://rentry.co/rn6ud3wu

Intro:
The name's 07, 007

Verse:
Silenced Pistol, quiet whistle, wires sizzle
Iron spindles, climb through windows, stylish skillful
Try to sit still, light is minimal, iris flickers
Sight is dismal, hide the trigger, slide in vent holes
Heights abysmal, sinus sniffles, vitals tremble
Ice and liquor, mind is shriveled, visor wrinkles
Mic is fizzled, spies utensils, cyber digital
Swipe credentials, cypher riddle, private symbols
Lines suspenseful, psychic crystal, sidekick signals
Dialed official, violence triples, snipers ripple
Rifles crinkle, knife is silver, sliced with sickles
Guided missile, fire at temples, License To Kill

Night Vision Goggles, spy lenses toggled
Nice fitted modules, light shifts and shuffles
Bright brimming sparkles, lines in the monocles
Climb into dark mode, eyes hidden in charcoal
Blind Riddick Chronicles, sight collision throttles
Sky tinted cosmos, high ceiling gargoyles
Hide in this foxhole, ride into jungles
Cryogenic arsenal, knives hitting nostrils
Tight fisted knuckles, fires in the bottles
Minds twitch and wobble, sniped with the crossbow
9 missing hostiles, die with this rubble
5 missions possible, might finish tomorrow

Bug Device, bugs inside, bloodied knife
Bluff precise, nothing nice, numbered bytes
Numb with fright, rough design, rugged types
Plugged in twice, double vice, dusty nights
Snug disguise, subtle heist, smuggled spice
Shuffle slight, stuck in flight, scrub it right
Shut the blinds, shuttered lights, sudden spike
Thunder strike, touch the sky, trust the guise
Trust denied, tuck and hide, tunnel pipes
Flooded site, muzzled mic, muscles tight
Custom splice, cutter ice, gloves with dice
Upper heights, hunted spies, jungle fights

Grapple Hooks, rappel nooks, vandals look
Tackle crooks, scaffold struck, jackals smushed
Shatter foots, ankles shook, sandals stood
Fragile pulse, masks and hoods, tactical bugs
Castle rooks, chapels ambush, mantels wood
Candles soot, lanterns shush, anvils chucked
Panels stuck, gradual push, apple cook
Password scrubbed, samples pulled, tassels plucked
Battered book, ransom ducked, manual truck
Handled goods, satchels took, natural luck

Micro Camera, spy mode avatar
Nitro stamina, night glow nebula
Knife throw samurai, white scope plasma gun
Rifles loadin up, high volt gamma stun
Might hold a spatula, psycho paragon
Wires broke spectacular, tight ropes antenna
Lines grow replica, eyes closed retina
Blindfold camouflage, nice robe fedora
Side scroll lambdas, write slow algebra
Type those formulas, fly drones very far
Sky domes corridor, light strobe cinema
Mind molds medulla, ice cold amygdala
Bio chimera, bytes clone bacteria
Twice shown dilemma, dice rolled handles cut
Cry more phenomena, drive slow Yamaha
Time froze calendar, spines blown et cetera

Lockpick Set, top secret, locked in chest, boxed in debt
Glocks equipped, optics prepped, socket wrench, cross stitched vest
Soft grip tech, bot-synched mech, pop this turret, bomb print etched
Notch this edge, stark intents, raw grit theft, rob this jet
Toxic quest, laws get bent, thoughts misled, pockets bled
Chop this net, off grid check, fog gets dense, tarp gets stretched
Moss stained fence, rock slick steps, frostbit breath, hot with sweat
Jaw stays clenched, slowly crept, ops detect, spot this threat
Guards deflect, shot with lead, launch defense, cartridge wet
Squad gets wrecked, dropkick vets, soft reset, drop in yet?
Hardly stressed, stop this mess, lost respect, mocked regret
Knock this desk, hostage fled, contact slept, dark silhouette
Targets dead, vaults compress, shocks inject, sparks connect
Login's cracked, cockpit swept, clock twists left, watch ticks next

iSpy

Perfect Dark - Training (DnB Remix)

oh no. anyways

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Argent Bolts (DKC3 GBA SNES remix)

The Kongversation takes a look at Rare's 40th anniversary celebration! We discuss the surprise return of Conker's Pocket Tales, what went into Cameron and Dustin's own official art pieces, and what the studio has meant to us for the vast majority of our lives!

Showrunner: Hyle Russell
Host: Hyle Russell
Special Guests: Cameron Reigle, Dustin Jackson
Music: Matt Cornah

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The Kongversation 1332 - 40 Years of Rare

interdimensional transgression seeking to make bleep bloops that fire neurons in the wrinkled mass inside your skull

this is the main account. for old originals and covers check out @harumkt-2nd and @harumkt-3rd

[@swintonmusic is best husbando]

Nuestra creatividad nos mueve a sentir amor incondicional hacia el arte. Es por ello que todos los trabajos los comparto abiertamente; son gratuítos. Esto significa que pueden ser descargados y que puedes hacer con ellos todo lo que te parezca correcto.
En un mundo competitivo, posesivo y de consumo despiadado, compartir sin esperar nada a cambio es la opción más sensata.

eSencia (R. Azorín)

Experienced music professional with a background in AAA game audio & library/production music.
Music for BMG, EMI, IMAGEM, Extreme, SATV, Warner/Chappell etc.

New tracks tagged #Rareware