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Donkey Kong Land (1995)

Nintendo, Rare

Game Boy · Nintendo 3DS

3.14 from 229 ratings

567 members have it in their collection · 9 playing now · 108 backlogged · 84 wish listed

How long? Main story 4h · with extras 2h (from 8 logged playthroughs)

Donkey Kong Land is a Jump & Run classic, developed by Rareware and released by Nintendo for the Game Boy in June 1995. Cranky Kong, jealous of all the success Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong have had from Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, challenges the Kongs to beat another adventure on an 8-bit system (Game Boy). As King K. … Read more
Donkey Kong Land is a Jump & Run classic, developed by Rareware and released by Nintendo for the Game Boy in June 1995. Cranky Kong, jealous of all the success Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong have had from Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, challenges the Kongs to beat another adventure on an 8-bit system (Game Boy). As King K. Rool agrees with Cranky and steals the bananas again, Donkey & Diddy Kong set out to go through another adventure! Read less
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Details

Developers
Nintendo, Rare
Publishers
Nintendo, Playtronic
Genres
Adventure, Platform
Themes
Action
Franchises
Donkey Kong
Series
Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Land

Release dates

  • Jun 26, 1995 (Full Release) (North_America) Game Boy
  • Jul 27, 1995 (Full Release) (Japan) Game Boy
  • Aug 24, 1995 (Full Release) (Europe) Game Boy
  • 1995 (Full Release) (Brazil) Game Boy
  • Apr 02, 2014 (Full Release) (Japan) Nintendo 3DS
  • Oct 16, 2014 (Full Release) (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
  • Feb 26, 2015 (Full Release) (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
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Featured in lists

NSO Collection - GB + GBC by Roach · 43 games · 2
Game Boy Greatness by Retrobert · 16 games · 1

Rating distribution

5 stars
18
4 stars
52
3 stars
108
2 stars
45
1 star
6
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Community All Reviews Statuses

Inc

Status Inc Nov 22, 2024

Donkey Kong Land has been on my wishlist for a long time. Today it was released on NSO. One less for the bucket list!

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Retrobert

Status Retrobert Aug 14, 2019

I'm almost done with Donkey Kong Land. The game has many flaws, but it still a decent platformer for the Game Boy.

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AlfredoSalza

Status AlfredoSalza Oct 25, 2015

Completed on emulator (no savestates)

A charmingly bad DK game, actually it barely counts as a Donkey Kong game. Wacky physics, obtuse mechanics and a few brutal levels that can ruin the overall enjoyment(?) of the game, but a lot more than are just uninteresting.

To me it was a "so bad it's good" kind of game.

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