Banana hoard

The Banana Hoard is Donkey Kong's bounty of countless Bananas. These are stored in caves underneath his treehouse.

Donkey Kong Country
King K. Rool steals the Banana Hoard for unknown reasons in Donkey Kong Country. Donkey and Diddy Kong make it their mission to retrieve them one by one by battling each of K. Rool's bosses and, eventually succeeding.

Donkey Kong Land
To see if their adventures are also successful on the original 8-bit Game Boy, Cranky Kong arranges for the Kremlings to steal the Banana Hoard once again for Donkey Kong Land. Despite their black and white limitations, Donkey and Diddy Kong manage to defeat King K. Rool once again.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
The Banana Hoard itself does not appear in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, but it still plays a major role in the storyline. After K. Rool's defeat in the first game, he decides to kidnap Donkey Kong and hold him for ransom, demanding the Banana Hoard in exchange for Donkey Kong's safe return.

Donkey Kong 64
The Banana Hoard is once again stolen, this time to slow Donkey Kong's progress. New types of bananas are introduced; each playable character has a different color to collect. This is also the first official appearance of the Golden Bananas, which are shiny treasures of unknown origin. After K. Rool is defeated, Donkey Kong waits for Cranky Kong to arrive as he places the final touches on the restored Golden Banana Hoard, but he ends up falling asleep before placing the last one on the hoard, due to Cranky taking a long time to get to DK's position.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
The Banana Hoard once again appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's story mode, the Subspace Emissary. Bowser sent out a Hammer Bro. and a Goomba to steal the bananas. Donkey Kong started to chase them. When he finally got out of The Jungle, he still cannot catch them as they drove too fast and was too far from him. The Goomba jumps to two Bill Blasters which fired three Bullet Bills toward Donkey Kong. Diddy Kong then jumps out of the jungle and uses his Peanut Popgun to stop them. They keep following them. Eventually they reach the banana hoard and into a trap and faces Bowser as he transforms Donkey Kong into a trophy.

Donkey Kong Country Returns
The Banana Hoard returns and makes its latest appearance in Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. Many Tikis hypnotize the animals of Donkey Kong Island to steal them (as they acted as resources to reproduce the Tiki tribe) and Donkey and Diddy Kong must retrieve it back and defeat Tiki Tong to fill their Banana Hoard once again. After defeating Tiki Tong once and for all, the Volcano that he has been occupying erupted bananas that were presumably the Banana Hoard, with several of them also hitting one of the statues and activating them to summon the Golden Temple.