Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong Country
Developer(s)	Rare
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Tim Stamper
Designer(s)	Gregg Mayles
Composer(s)	David Wise Eveline Fischer Robin Beanland
Series	Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong
Platform(s)	SNES, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Virtual Console (Wii, Wii U, New 3DS), Super NES Classic Edition, Nintendo Switch Online
Release	Super Nintendo Entertainment System: UK: November 18, 1994 NA: November 21, 1994 PAL: November 24, 1994 JP: November 26, 1994 Game Boy Color: AU: November 15, 2000 EU: November 17, 2000 NA: November 20, 2000 JP: January 21, 2001 Game Boy Advance: EU: June 6, 2003 NA: June 9, 2003 AU: June 20, 2003 JP: December 12, 2003 Virtual Console (Wii): AU: December 7, 2006 EU: December 8, 2006 JP: December 12, 2006 NA: February 19, 2007 KOR: May 26, 2008 Virtual Console (Wii U): EU: October 16, 2014 AU: October 17, 2014 JP: November 26, 2014 NA: February 26, 2015 Virtual Console (New 3DS): JP: March 4, 2016 NA: March 24, 2016 EU: March 24, 2016 AU: March 25, 2016 Super NES Classic Edition: NA: September 29, 2017 EU: September 29, 2017 AU: September 30, 2017 JP: October 5, 2017 Nintendo Switch Online: WW: July 15, 2020
Genre(s)	Platformer
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer

Donkey Kong Country is the first instalment of the Donkey Kong Country series and the first game in the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy. This video game was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This game is a platformer developed by Rare and published by Nintendo. The playable characters are Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. Donkey Kong Country was followed by two sequels: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! in 1995 and 1996.

The game was remade for the Game Boy Color in 2000 and was also remade again for the Game Boy Advance in 2003. Donkey Kong Country was ported over to the Wii's Virtual Console in 2006 and 2007. On November 25, 2012, for reasons unknown, Donkey Kong Country and both its sequels were delisted from the Wii's Virtual Console worldwide except in South Korea, but on October 30, 2014, the games were relisted only in Europe and Australia. Around the same time, the games were released on the Wii U's Virtual Console in Europe and Australia, in Japan on November 26, 2014, and in the United States and Canada on February 26, 2015. For handhelds, Donkey Kong Country was ported exclusively over to the New Nintendo 3DS's Virtual Console in March 2016. It is one of the 21 games included on the Super NES Classic Edition and was made available for the Nintendo Switch Online on July 15, 2020.