Donkey Kong Land

Template:Infobox Donkey Kong Land, known in Japan as Super Donkey Kong GB, is a video game that was developed by Rareware for the Game Boy. Released in 1995, it was a handheld follow-up of Donkey Kong Country, and the game's pseudo sequel. The game was also one of the few Game Boy games to feature a specially colored cartridge (yellow), which was also used on the sequels, Donkey Kong Land 2 and Donkey Kong Land III. It was one of the first games to feature Super Game Boy special features, including a rendered jungle border across the television screen.

The game is often mistaken as a Game Boy 'port' of Donkey Kong Country. Although this is true in the manner that the two games play the same using the same engine - it is false because not only is the storyline different, but Donkey Kong Land has different levels, enemies, and bosses from the ones featured in Donkey Kong Country.

Story

According to the game's instruction booklet, the story takes place after the events of Donkey Kong Country, where Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong are discussing about their latest adventure to Cranky Kong. Cranky admits that the adventure was more successful than he thought, although claiming that it was only because of the "fancy graphics" and that "Kids'll buy anything nowadays". After Cranky goes on about the games of his time, the two other Kongs try to convince him that it was not only fancy graphics that made Donkey Kong Country great, but that it "was just plain fun". However, this did not convince the old monkey, so Donkey and Diddy decide to have an adventure on an 8-bit system, with King K. Rool stealing the Banana Hoard again. Once the bet is decided, Cranky Kong arranges everything, and calls King K. Rool to come and take the hoard overnight. Afterwards, the two heroes decide to rest for the adventure ahead of them.

Levels

Levels and Bonus Areas
Gangplank Galleon Ahoy!
#	Level	Bonus Areas	Type of Level
1	Jungle Jaunt	2	Jungle
2	Freezing Fun	1	Snow
3	Simian Swing	2	Jungle
4	Deck Trek	2	Ship
5	Rope Ravine	2	Snow
6	Tire Trail	3	Jungle
7	Riggin' Rumble	2	Ship
8	Congo Carnage	2	Jungle
9	Arctic Barrel Arsenal	2	Snow
10	BOSS LEVEL: Wild Sting Fling	0	Ship
Kremlantis
#	Level	Bonus Areas	Type of Level
11	Tricky Temple	1	Temple
12	Kremlantis Kaos	0	Underwater Ruins
13	Reef Rampage	0	Coral
14	Snake Charmer's Challenge	1	Temple
15	Chomp's Coliseum	0	Underwater Ruins
16	Nautilus Chase	0	Coral
17	Swirlwind Storm	1	Temple
18	BOSS LEVEL: Seabed Showdown	0	Underwater Ruins
Monkey Mountains and Chimpanzee Clouds
#	Level	Bonus Areas	Type of Level
19	Pot Hole Panic	1	Cave
20	Mountain Mayhem	2	Mountain
21	Track Attack	2	Clouds
22	Spiky Tire Trail	2	Cave
23	Sky High Caper	1	Clouds
24	Landslide Leap	2	Mountain
25	Collapsing Clouds	2	Clouds
26	BOSS LEVEL: Mad Mole Holes	0	Caves
Big Ape City
#	Level	Bonus Areas	Type of Level
27	Construction Site Fight	2	Skyscraper
28	Kong Krazy	1	Blimp
29	Balloon Barrage	2	Construction Site
30	Fast Barrel Blast	2	Blimp
31	Skyscraper Caper	1	Skyscraper
32	Button Barrel Blast	2	Construction Site
33	Oil Drum Slum	2	Skyscraper
34	BOSS LEVEL: K. Rool's Kingdom	0	Blimp

Gallery

Boxart

• UnitedStatesDKL65.jpg

  US Player's Choice Boxart.

• JapanDKL65.jpg

  Japanese Boxart.

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  US Boxart.

Screenshots

• DKLJungleJaunt65.gif

  The game's first level.

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  Diddy Kong in Freezing Fun.

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  Deck Trek, the fourth level in Donkey Kong Land.

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  Donkey Kong in Tricky Temple.

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  Donkey Kong is chased by a Nemo.

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  Diddy Kong encounters two Snappers.

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  Donkey Kong jumps over a Krusha.

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  The level, Track Attack.

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  Diddy Kong in the cave level, Spiky Tire Trail.

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  One of the Kongs riding on a balloon.

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  A journey through one of the game's blimp levels.

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  Donkey Kong in the misnamed level, Balloon Barrage.

Beta elements

Main article: Donkey Kong Land/Beta elements