Donkey Kong swinging onto the Revolution

by David Hinkle on Apr 24th 2006 2:30PM

N-Sider reports that Nintendo's own Shigeru Miyamoto announced that a new Donkey Kong title would be gracing the Revolution and it would be helmed by none other than the Jungle Beat team led by Takao Shimizu and Yoshiaki Koizumi in a Famitsu magazine piece. The game is being released in the console's launch cycle and will be present at E3, although in what capacity we can only speculate. The game is to forgo the bongo interface of previous titles and adopt a new control interface on the Revolution.

It's smart for Nintendo to come out in full force with all of their strongest first-party titles for the Revolution, which is something the GameCube failed to do during its launch. Donkey Kong has been a fan favorite for years and, should the game feature the same polish as past games bearing the gorilla's mug, will be sure to be one of the Revolution's best titles. What kind of game do you want to see DK in next? Another platformer?

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Tags: Donkey, kong, miyamoto, nintendo, revolution, shigeru

Reader Comments (6)

I expect this to be another rhythm game, using the Revmote as a drumstick or something like that. Maybe other instruments too and possibly multiplayer-focused.

I think the first batch of first-party games are going to have to be controller-focused to show people how to use the controller. It'll be harder to do than the DS, because the DS could easily be used to play traditional games.

Id like to see a Donkey Konga mini game, where you can use 2 Revmotes and literally play the drums... but other then that im hoping for a more traditional DK game (side scroller from SNES, or 3D from N64)...

It'd be cool if they had a Donkey Konga game that could be played either on GameCube or Revolution. On GameCube you could play with just the bongos, and on Revolution you could use two revomotes as drumsticks. It'd have the same songs when booted on both systems. You'd be able to play multiplayer with different control interfaces, too... for instance, you could use the bongos while your friend used two revomotes.

This could turn out to be a webvien-swinging game.

If they did make a game like the previously suggested it would do great. Having games like DK and Twilight Princess as a last hurrah on the Cube but then having the temptation to upgrade or start off with the unique game play on a machine that won't have everything the 360 has, but the 360 has a controller.

That last line definatley proves the name of this place.