Donkey Kong Country turns 30 later this year. So, to celebrate this feat, a group of former Rare developers are getting together to swap stories about the game's development and its incredible legacy, at a panel at this year's EGX gaming event, taking place at ExCeL London.
The panel is scheduled for Saturday, October 26th, 2024 at 1:15 pm BST on the Live Stage and will feature the Donkey Kong Country designer Gregg Mayles, the composer David Wise, and the character artists Kev Bayliss and Steve Mayles.
Out of this group of developers, Gregg Mayles is the only person still employed at Rare, with Kev Bayliss and Steve Mayles currently working at the Yooka-Replaylee developers Playtonic Games, while David Wise is a freelance composer, having recently contributed music to Gimmick! 2.
Tickets are currently on sale for the event on the EGX website, with the cheapest option available for those who just want to visit the panel being the standard entry costing £32 for the Saturday date.
There are also priority tickets available for those who want early access to the rest of the event (from 9 am BST onwards) priced at £41, as well as tickets for the whole weekend (October 25th - October 27th) for £97.
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OK. Now, along with that, can you somehow magically figure out how to get "RARE" to let you finish and announce a physical SNES cartridge and a modern digital release of the basically complete Killer Instinct 2 for SNES, please. RARE, Microsoft, Stampers, are you there.... No one can convince me this wouldn't be awesome and indeed turn in nice little profit. I guarantee SNES fans would absolutely lap this up.
Sounds great... but 30 years ago.... ouch... Can remember buying it like it was yesterday. Thanks for reminding me how OLD I am!!!
Thirty years later and the game is still not on CD-ROM or any 32X adapters.
With the latest trend of porting everything to the Genesis, I wonder if any fan has dared to attempt the latter (Nintendo lawyers unafraid).
It makes me a little sad how few titles Rare have released or developed since being bought by Microsoft in 2003. Over 100 games from 1986-2003 across various formats and since then 24 new games in just over twenty years to 2024 with only 12 being on the X Box platforms.
Getting the gang (in a manner of speaking) back together, cool.👍
@KingMike Similarly, I would love to see a whole bunch of Genesis games ported to SNES, the big hitters:
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (don't care about the rest)
Streets of Rage 1 and 2 (don't care about 3)
Golden Axe 1 (not really bothered about the rest)
Alien Storm
Thunder Force IV
Virtua Racing (just to see how close the FX2 or now "FX3" could get)
Alien Soldier
Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Aladdin
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Splatterhouse 2
Contra: Hard Corps
Gunstar Heroes
M.U.S.H.A
Mercs
Super Fantasy Zone
Castle of Illusion
Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Castlevania: Bloodlines
And I would ideally like them to take further advantage of the SNES' features with these ports and add in more colours, proper transparency, more background layers, maybe use some nice Mode 7 rotation and scaling in some choice places, ideally add surround sound support, and take extra advantage of the SNES' controller in some cases.
Anytime anyone wants to gets started on that list, that would be great.
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