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|image=[[File:DKC3 GhostBarrel.jpg|150px]]<br>Artwork of a Boo Barrel from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]''.
|image=[[File:DKC3 GhostBarrel.jpg|150px]]<br>Artwork of a Boo Barrel from ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]''.
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])

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Boo Barrel
Artwork of a Boo Barrel from Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
Artwork of a Boo Barrel from Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!.
First appearance Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1996)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) (2005)

A Boo Barrel,[1] also named Ghost Barrel[2][3] (alternatively formatted as Ghost barrels),[4] is a ghostly type of Barrel that appears in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Donkey Kong Land III.

Boo Barrels act the same as Blast Barrels except that they vanish and reappear every few seconds, like the ropes of Donkey Kong Country 2. Each Boo Barrel faces in a set direction, which determines where Dixie and Kiddy get blasted to. The direction they face upon appearing is usually randomized, and thus, the Kongs will often have to time their entry just right to progress. They are also sometimes hazardous obstacles, as they can blast the Kongs into enemies. Such Boo Barrels must be passed while invisible.

In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, the Boo Barrels only appear in the Kaos Kore level, Creepy Caverns. They appear a little more often in Donkey Kong Land III, in three levels: Stalagmite Frights, Haunted Hollows, and Ghoulish Grotto.

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Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese おばけタル
Obake Taru
Ghost Barrel

References

  1. ^ M. Arakawa. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble Player's Guide. Pages 96 and 97.
  2. ^ Nintendo Power, Vol 91, December, 1996, page 61. "CREEPY CAVERNS The Creepy Caverns used to be a warehouse filled with barrels of bananas, but now the dusty depository is haunted. Beware of the Ghost Barrels-hopping into one could blast you into a bunch of bananas-or a ton of trouble"
  3. ^ Nintendo Power Volume 103, pages 85, 89, and 91.
  4. ^ Nintendo Official Magazine (UK) issue 54, page 50.