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? #340 - Super Mario 3D Land [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:42
Super Mario 3D Land is one that slips through my memory cracks a lot, and dare I say, for a Mario game I think it's actually a little underrated...
Remember The Game? #339 - Bomberman 64 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:54
Bomberman is a damned retro gaming hero, and I'm ashamed that it took 339 episodes to give that little guy his flowers and show him some love.
Remember The Game? #338 - Contra III: The Alien Wars [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:54
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Remember The Game? #337 - Mega Man X2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:49:35
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Remember The Game? #336 - Gears of War 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:48:19
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Expansion Pass #233 - The SNES [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:11
We skip the first Wednesday of the month to give me time to pay the games for RTG, but fortunately we have a backlog of about 1,000 podcasts on Patreon to draw from to fill in the gaps. And this week, we're turning the n…
Remember The Game? #335 - Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:42
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Remember The Game? #334 - Okami [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40:01
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Remember The Game? #333 - World Series of Poker [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:08
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