Remember The Game? #323 - Donkey Kong Country Returns

Remember The Game? #323 - Donkey Kong Country Returns

Author: Adam Blank February 12, 2025 Duration: 1:33:49
Are you on social media? Of course you are. So follow us!  Twitter: @MemberTheGame Instagram: @MemberTheGame Twitch.tv/MemberTheGame Youtube.com/RememberTheGame Facebook.com/RememberTheGamePodcast TikTok.com/@MemberTheGame And if you want access to hundreds of bonus (ad-free) podcasts, along with multiple new shows EVERY WEEK, consider showing us some love over at Patreon. Subscriptions start at just $3/month, and 5% of our patreon income every month will be donated to our 24 hour Extra-Life charity stream at the end of the year! Patreon.com/RememberTheGame We don't show the Wii a lot of love on RTG, but with Nintendo re-re-releasing one of the system's best games on the Switch last month, I figured it was time. We're talking about the superb Donkey Kong Country Returns this week. DKC Returns is everything I want in a platformer. It plays really well. It's tough as hell (especially if you try to get all the collectibles). The soundtrack is banging, the graphics are good, there's level variety. The name says it all; this really is a return to classic Donkey Kong Country. PENDING RTG Hall of Famer and the Diddy to my Donkey Kong, ye olde Mark McCue is my guest this week. We came at this game from 2 different directions and had 2 very different playthroughs, but met up at the end to agree this is just a hell of a platformer and a game no DKC fan should miss. And before we go banana collecting, I put together another edition of the Infamous Intro! This week, someone asks when I found games started to get a little soft. Should boss fights have their own separate difficulty sliders? And what game series peaked with its first release and then just gradually got worse? Plus we play another round of 'Play One, Remake One, Erase One', too! This one features DK classics: Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong 64, and Donkey Kong '94. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Comedian Adam Blank invites you to pull up a chair for Remember The Game? Retro Gaming Podcast. This isn't a dry recap of release dates or technical specs. Instead, each episode feels like cracking open a time capsule with a friend. Adam and a guest choose one title from their past-a cartridge they rented a dozen times or a disc that defined a summer-and just talk about it. The conversation meanders through personal memories, the sheer joy of discovering a hidden level, the frustration of a cheap boss fight, and the unmistakable music that’s still stuck in their heads decades later. You’ll hear the laughter and camaraderie that comes from shared, albeit sometimes very specific, experiences. The goal of this podcast is to capture that specific feeling of being a kid again, trading secrets by the lockers or arguing about which game was truly the best. It’s less about critique and more about connection, built on a foundation of pixels and nostalgia. Tune in for a warmly familiar, often hilarious chat that celebrates the games that shaped us, one deeply personal and wonderfully digressive story at a time.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Remember The Game? Retro Gaming Podcast
Podcast Episodes
Remember The Game? #348 - Final Fantasy IV (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:54:31
While I'm a picky eater when it comes to JRPGs, I'll never forget my first - Final Fantasy IV (FF2 on the SNES). I recently played the Pixel Remaster version for the first time, so I wanted to give Cecil and friends anot…
Remember The Game? #347 - ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:36:54
ToeJam & Earl is one of my favourite Genesis games. I've had many people tell me that the sequel is a completely different game from the first, but that didn't stop me from wanting to give it a shot.
Expansion Pass #111 - Ranking The Simpsons Video Games [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:00
It's a bye week here at RTG, but to make sure you get your fix of my store-bought haircut and excellent posture, I'm raiding our Patreon archives this week and tossing my Simpsons video game ranking podcast up on the fre…
Remember The Game? #346 - Mutant League Football [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:07
Mutant League Football has been on my personal backlog for years, and with the new NFL season kicking off this week I figured there was no better time to finally see what all you Sega Genesis kids were bragging about. An…
Remember The Game? #345 - Super Metroid (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:46:06
When you're considered one of the best games in the legendary SNES library, you know you're something special. And Super Metroid is fucking special. Some will argue this isn't just the best game on the SNES, but the best…
Remember The Game? #344 - Metal Slug 3 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:03
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Remember The Game? #343 - WCW Mayhem [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:12
Good wrestling games are awesome, and bad wrestling games are hilarious. But what about a game that isn't bad, but isn't good? It's just kinda, there? That's how I'd describe WCW Mayhem.
Remember The Game? #342 - Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:37:26
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