Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country is a game in the Donkey Kong series, and is the first Donkey Kong game for the SNES. It is developed by Rare. The Donkey Kong Country game managed to be a huge success to the Nintendo industry and was game of the year when it was first released. Donkey Kong Country also had a certificate of Players choice on the box arts a year later.

The game is considered by many Donkey Kong fans as the best game in the series, and would later spawn many sequels by Rare. Once Rare left Nintendo, Nintendo gave the rights of Donkey Kong to Paon, a second party developer who has so far currently made DK: King of Swing, it's sequel, and DK Bongo Blast.