Game Boy Longplay [007] Donkey Kong Land

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Played By: RickyC
Not a 100% walkthrough but i tried to find as many of the secrets as possible through the run. -
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[@fatcerberus]

All these years later, this game still has some of the most satisfying sound effects ever.

[@AnimeMetalFan1]

I remember playing this game during long road trips. Good memories I tell ya.

[@MegaCwat]

Dark Jedi First game I ever played I was 8 i'm now 27

[@deckofcards87]

It was a favorite. Until i played Wario Land 2!

[@xMonqo]

U are not alone!

[@whitetroutchannel]

this game rocked still remember the banana yellow cartridge

[@jim.....]

oh shit yeah

[@jamesdestroyer3610]

i just was updating fallout 76 for e battle pass update he remembered My Game boy (i lost the charger D:) ss the last game i watched on youtube about the games i owned it was Super mario land Monster max then this

[@Skippy-id9yt]

Yeah ha ha me too banana yellow stands out to 90,s kids that cartridge for some reason i used to my gameboy pocket every where and I thought toy story looked so good on it

[@chonkokong513]

The good thing is its 16 bit counterpart is switch.

[@trippiestarzz9374]

i still have it but the gameboy is broken ;-;

[@SeLLy261]

the music just makes this game so much more amazing! i remember playing this for hours as a kid.

[@ItsCoreyLynxxYall]

I used to sit up for hours playing this shit dragging through school the next day. 90's kid problems.

[@mpoulin]

Quite impressive considering the hardware

[@UltimateWahee]

Well... the whole DKC SNES game was ported to the Game Boy Colour.

[@johneygd]

About that storyline, crankey kong was better off to give donkey & diddy kong a B&W go pro camera and redo that adventure all over again, then he should sell that footage to a movie company to earn more money or bananas!!

[@giadapastorello4165]

You should see the GBC port

[@axolotbrochanes5462]

Impressive graphics in 8 bits

[@decussation09]

I always loved the music on this game... which kept me playing

[@marswizzle]

THIS GAME WAS MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD. Even just the music brought tears to my eyes

[@huseyinusta9330]

same hereee.

[@DontrelleRoosevelt]

RARE's adaptations of this and Killer Instinct were phenominal for the GameBoy.

[@Blackprojex]

Killer Instinct for Game Boy is trash, tf u talking about lol

[@OriasX]

@@Blackprojex No its not,tf are you talking about?

[@johneygd]

I like donkeykong land but the hit detection is ackward,first off when you hit a gremlin ,he bounces off really high ,secondly you cannot hit 2 gremlins atonce ,the hit detection doesn’t allow this,wich is stupid because in donkeykong you can hit multiple gremlins atonce!!!

[@marccaselle8108]

I had killer instinct and donkey Kong land for ganeboy back in 1995. The best part was if you played game boy killer instinct with the super game boy adaptor for the super Nintendo, you could play 2 players!

[@psychogoreman198]

@@OriasX innit, Killer Instinct on GB was Siick! Best but was the combos were the same for console as game boy so I’d train on GB and Dominate on console.

[@123RAZZER123]

Goddam cutting onions and the feeling of Nostalgia.. Wow.. I remember i've spent countless of hours playing this with my older brother back when we were kids! This is insane that i could still remember the name of the game and to even remember the songs in my head damn.. The 90's were the best

[@Apprentice_of_the_Leonine]

Hearing this music and these sound effects for the first time in 15 years awoke something long-dormant in me and put the biggest shit-eating grin on my face (I last saw/heard/played this game when I was 6, I'm 21 now). It's all coming back to me, how awesome this game was. I've got to buy a Game Boy (preferably a GBA SP) and this game, like NOW.

[@Ninthusiast]

I was always amazed they were able to cram a full Donkey Kong Country port on the Gameboy...Considering the game length and limitations of the graphics, developers at Rare were still able to nail it! I got this and Link's Awakening as my first 2 gameboy games on Christmas day and instantly loved the system and it's well diversed library.

[@johneygd]

I remember when i bought the gameboy pocket along with donkeykong land 1 and supermarioland 1 back in 1999,but everytime i wanted to play,i couldn’t get it startup up,well it turned out that those battery’s were dying,BUT i just decided to trade it in for a gameboycolor instead because i was curious how those games would look in color,and oh boy i remember once i was getting home and started up donkeykong land,i was mind blown away by it’s colorized graphics the jungle and ice levels just seemingly looked as they were supposed to look like,and then a few day’s later i popped in supermarioland and oh man i was again just mind blown away because it looked much better in color then it did on the supergameboy,and to this day i still love the gameboycolor and i do have golden memories of it😁

[@leecrookes6044]

32 now and can't believe how many years have gone by and I've not played this game, it literally were my childhood..

[@jahrfuhlnehm]

I remember having this as a kid being the huge DKC fan I was. I was liking it... until 3-5. If I were to play this today it'd probably not give me so much trouble but as a very young kid constantly jumping with the damn platform constantly changing directions, bumping into walls and having to change it back just left me confused and frustrated, and that combined with the enemies/obstacles in the way I'd constantly get killed getting hit by something or just falling off the the thing altogether. That level was the last straw for me with this game. I stopped playing it altogether after that. In fact I remember being frustrated at a GB game so much around that time that I punched the screen, which left a crack behind, and I think it was that level that did it, ha.

[@paulahoher7394]

Nostalgy overflow here... such an awesome but hard game for a 5-year old!

[@SoulforReal88]

one the finest game boy games :*

[@Adunhakar]

Wonderful game, spent so much time playing this as a kid, never completed it back then. Recently picked it up again and finally completed it, that feeling..

[@Erobazai]

Donkey kong land and Wario land have a special place in my heart.

[@Ninni973]

I literally ate a bowl of popcorn and drank juice while watching this yesterday.

[@oneupgamer5306]

Just played DKL 2 for the first time. A full featured DKC game running flawlessly on Gameboy. PURE AWESOMENESS!!!!

[@lunara8588]

La nostalgie

[@bananafruitsmoothie]

This brings back so many memories. I used to have this game when I was about 4 or 5, it was one of my first games growing up. Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@andremendoncabastos5103]

What I loved about this game mostly was the song at 51:50

[@BlazeHN]

I came to this video just to hear that particular song, thanks.

[@noahramos2055]

Thank you so much for making this gameplay! I do have a gameboy and Donkey Kong Land 1 and that game is sort of hard but not anymore because of you and the video.

[@Parmetheus]

What a throwback. Loved this back in the day

[@einstwareinlicht]

Thank you very much for uploading this! It brings unique memories. I remember playing the game for days and days when I was very little and dying like an idiot over and over again, especially in World 3. I found the underwater levels the most scary and the cloud levels most beautiful ones. I thought that the saving checkpoint looked like a bee, hahaha. And I called the hopping enemies vampires.

[@VenaticSix15]

This game was the dark souls of my child hood, loved pumping this game out on my old gb , it’s still as difficult as I remember Level 2 was such a pain

[@retrokrazygaming1825]

The music in this game is awesome. I still own the game for my original Gameboy but I never completed it, I could never get past the sky levels with the platforms. I found this game pretty difficult. Nice play through though, you made this game look easy. :)

[@alehanndroxD]

Este fue m,i primer videojuego , recuerdo que me lo gane con chabelo ( un programa de tv de Mexico ) cuando tenia como 5 años :) , es de los mjeores y mas felizes recuerdos que tenga , se te agradece mucho haber subido el video !

[@Gamerfox225]

Q?

[@GamingPalooza]

A long time ago, this was considered to be absolutely great looking on the Gameboy. Show some respect noob.

[@edseiya]

emm .. its still a great looking GB game.

[@AllHailKingKurt]

I never thought so, even when the game first came out, they was trying to make it like the snes but everything blended together on that small screen. Game was barely playable on a gameboy because of that, it was a big problem rare had in general when making gameboy versions of their games, battletoads in ragnarks world is another example of everything just blending in and being barely visible. I’m watching this on KZbin and I can see it’s still a massive problem even on a crisper, clearer, bigger screen.

[@vegan4theanimals]

“Show some respect noob” That’s usually the best way to earn respect, by insulting people.

[@undoneonion90]

*munches popcorn*

[@Dracomut]

No way, this game has aged horribly

[@trippiestarzz9374]

omg this brings back so much nostalgia from when i was a kid

[@dillontam9752]

I like how the plot of the game is Donkey and Diddy Kong showing that good gameplay is all they need on the Game Boy, but in reality the game is remembered for its nice graphics and sound but not the gameplay.

[@RaZZaR18]

I rly love the sound theme of the underwater levels - soooo chill to listen, while reading/learning

[@stufaman]

My jaw hit the floor with this game. Donkey Kong Country on SNES was mind blowing, but to get a similar game on Gameboy was amazing. I knew it was capable of better in it's early days, but I didn't expect this.

[@leonsanderson1959]

Craaaazy nostalgia...makes me wonder why I got rid of my game boy, I never could get past the water levels. Thanks for the upload.

[@EduardoTheArchitect]

"When pigs can fly" Hahah please! They've been flying since 1995 ;)

[@mikaelgelsingcarlsen9994]

This little gem was my first ever console game. Gameboy was the best pastime when I was little :) The music is very creative too.

[@RDQuasar]

everything in this game was incredible. Graphic was awesome, not to mention the great audio, where you can find music like these today??

[@anbu_abstrakt1374]

I played this game at 1 year old it’s been 12 years and this game still makes me feel the same joy as before when I would wake up and turn on the game boy and play this game for several hours until it was time to go eat.

[@lisvender]

Yeesh, it's like Donkey Kong meets Begotten.

[@sajking7269]

this is such a niche fucking comment lol

[@eshry]

Wow it really is a niche one....begotten....jesus Christ what a nightmare

[@melisunnymellchris79]

This is one of the best Game Boy Games ever exist!!!

[@Adunhakar]

never managed to finish this game as a kid..played it again last summer and finally beat it, such awesome memories :)

[@DarKKnightt07]

My childhood revisited!!, good times and memories I will never forget it :)

[@HUSTLER1346]

Bro this is such an old school game. I never knew this game came out after DKC. This was my first DK game ever.

[@thepeterpot]

I remember when these were the best graphics around, I was so impressed by them. Also 47:35 - that cloud level music I will always remember for all my life. Sooo much nostalgia. Thank you for uploading this!

[@angelobascur6256]

Hermoso juego me lo di vuelta en un gameboy transparente me salio mas caro el 97 pero valio mucho la pena hermiso recuerdo

[@SteppingTrack]

that sea monster chasing you was terrifying

[@Enigmaraff]

I can't wait to download this game this week on the 3DS!

[@carlosinterntet5902]

Cuabdo tenia 9 años mi padre me compro un Game Boy. Lo jugabamos con mi hermano, el unico caset que teniamos era este de Don King Kong. Que nostalgia ver esto.

[@KNitro123]

Too much memories. Never appreciated how nice the soundtrack was as a kid. Need to play this again

[@kabutosenseiisback]

Damn this games graphics were so far ahead of everything else at the time.

[@vlad54588]

Last time I played this one was about 20 years ago. Such a cool and strange feeling. Like opening a box with toys from your childhood.

[@Detc0n]

can't stop the flowing feels ;_;

[@djstephennicholls]

the underwater level music for donky kong country and land are master pieces

[@mygodness3553]

Woow Nostalgia i rememberers with a big white fat console game boy when it summer time, and nobody to play with i had to spend hours playing this game just amazing

[@AustralianForGirl]

I used to play this game ALL the time. Wow. I love the underwater levels! And the aztec looking levels too. So great.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Graphics, animation and huge sprites, very good job for the poor gameboy.

[@brentjones9677]

This game rules when I was 12 years old. loved it. The music and the beer too with it.

[@javiermelero3530]

I miss my childhood :(. this was one of my favorite games for the gameboy original

[@QuantumCakes]

God, these SNES DKC OST adaptations are truly a masterpiece. Especially the water levels. Oh my goodness :) I came here cause I'm writing a review for my channel and I just wanted to experience the game again. Unfortunately, I lost my copy 😓

[@KoningStoma]

I have played this for years. Brings me back.

[@Doug.Dimmadome]

Piece of my childhood

[@FlorineSchneider]

I used to play this game like all the time in my childhood aw such nice memories

[@malouemmax]

Good old times ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@bryan.tm._]

I FINALLY FOUND IT!!! I have been searching for this game since 2010

[@icefang87]

Ahh memories! Love this game and despite not being to check whether it was good when I bought it in the 90's, I'm happy to have owned it! Hate the water levels though.

[@starboy35tcoos]

Man.....I had this game when I was mad young.......memories...

[@allosauruski]

So many pleasant houres of my childhood ! Thank you so much :) 💛 Remember too much the clouds levels ! Goddam hard! 😘

[@edwrodrig1]

Incredible game for game boy. The only detail are the low contrast between background and sprites in some levels (cave levels are hard to see in the original green screen). KIller Instinct had the same problem but they put a high contrast mode that this have should have.

[@kingGreen1235]

They put 2 1/2 d animations on a game boy. Genius , mad genius to be exact.

[@Davethe3rd]

Y'know, considering that we're taking SNES game assets and taking a game this size and making it intended to be played on a GAME BOY, this is pretty damn impressive...

[@Skithien]

I played this game way before I ever played Donkey Kong Country and i gotta say this game was more enjoyable for me. Now i think it's just the nostalgic factor but I'm definitely excited to be getting Donkey Kong Country Returns soon, anytime I play a Donkey Kong game I think of days spent playing this one. Thank you Nintendo!

[@bigchungo9702]

The nostalgia........ it........ its so........ beautiful

[@james52054]

Such good memories I had fun as a boy playing this game on my Gameboy original

[@Maxx_XIII]

@WildWaddledee It's supposed to be long. In Longplays, you're supposed to see the entire game from start to finish, including any cutscenes (and in many cases, all endings too). You can find shorter versions of this on KZbin cut into smaller clips, but if you clicked the link to this video and expect a short playthrough, you're in the wrong place. Make sure you actually want to see a Longplay before you click the link leading to one.

[@mushihimesamas]

To this day the bonus stages still trip me out on where they take you. From a ship to a city, from a cold snowy fields to underwater ruins.

[@alucard624]

So glad this game as well as the other 2 DK Land games got a digital re-release on the 3DS eShop. If you don't have them yet and still have a 3DS, you better purchase them soon as the shop is closing as of 2023 unfortunately. Same with the other DK games and everything else in the shop.

[@quag311]

Here I am again. This game was beast back in the day.

[@TheRealCheesemaker]

I can clearly hear Thing On A Spring and Ark Pandora from Commodore 64 in the last levels

[@WolverinaWorld]

One of my favorite games growing up.. Still have it and it's still awesome!

[@WolverinaWorld]

@@nasman7492 I do actually 😄

[@saramarie9091]

I love how it went from Jungle to Snow to Jungle to Donkey Kong Land 2 in the first 4 levels.

[@susanfit47]

Donkey Kong Land is the handheld sequel of Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which spawned its own series alongside the SNES series. Donkey Kong Land was enhanced for the Super Game Boy and featured a "banana yellow" cartridge, which was later used for its sequels. Many of the game's background elements, character models, and sound effects borrows mechanics retained the same style as those established in Donkey Kong Country. Despite sharing common level themes, the level design and story in DKL are different.

[@itstimmyramisu]

That ship level is so nostalgic. Along with the level mapping

[@reillo9]

I used to love this game and played it constantly as a kid, just recently tried playing it again and i do not remember it being this hard

[@Externica]

Honestly, I never thought they were good looking on the old Game Boy back in the day. Background and character sprites were both too dark, that it was sometimes hard to see where anything was. The GB Pocket fixed this a little and it's no problem on a GBC or GBA. But overall, I always thought the DKL-Games were made with the intention of being played on a Super Game Boy.

[@looe9195]

Wait! In DKL, you can ride the animals, but in the GBC port of DKC, you BECOME them instead? And this came out BEFORE it? What?

[@ButtonBasherBW]

I'm still impressed how much they managed to get out of a standard GameBoy. For the hardware, Rare really made this look great! Though, it can be hard to see at times, tweaking the contrast just right to made out everything.

[@iCTsang]

What was so special about the three DK Lands? Did the story take place b4 DKC or after the snes versions were made? :)

[@dillonkinder9296]

This and 2 and 3 are the best DK games ever released for Game Boy

[@ForsytheConstructions]

Die Musik in den Game war bis dato die beste gamemusic fuer GB games ^^ achja wie schaffstdu das die filme bei dir so lang sind? ich kann nur max 30min hochladen danach sagt der film ist zu groß / lang

[@DarKKnightt07]

one of my all time favorite gameboy games ever.

[@tribaltroll]

Wow, this actually looks pretty impressive for a gameboy game. Never played it though... My two favs were Wario Land and Bases Loaded

[@misterbermudez9496]

este fue el primer juego que jugue. aahh que recuerdos. siempre le pedia a mi carnal que me pasara las misiones..

[@arterialtribal]

Most of the background graphics are so irritating.

[@rgerber]

I had the GBC and tried to adjust the colors matching to each stage (water, jungle, rocks etc) You have to press A & UP/LEFT/RIGHT etc for various color palettes

[@daveshen0880]

Wow. I used to play this game in many hours. Its now almost about 20 years ago

[@GamePrime99]

Hey man, could I possibly use this video for a new series I'm doing? I need to get footage of almost all the game since I'm doing a retrospective/review type of video and I will defiantly include you in the credits for the Gameplay video credits for DKL1. Please respond as soon as you can, since if you give me permission, I can start more of the editing process for my video more quickly. Thanks!

[@GamePrime99]

Sounds good, Thanks so much!

[@leidyslagares5532]

+GamePrime's Lets Plays, Reviews, and More as I download this game, but the classic on the video, thank you.

[@puccettoneweb]

Hello. I still have the original game of dk land for game boy color yellow, but after so many years, I have noticed that despite the bailouts every finished level, once you turn off and then power back up the game, the memory is cleared and then I always have to start over from the beginning. It is a typical bug of the game or is the cartridge that I have to be bad ?? thank you.

[@ThePixelDreams]

when the battery dies in old cartirdges they can no longer save, try the guide here: www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Change-Game-Boy-Cartridge-Battery/

[@sartreplagiarizedmyunborns9104]

Wow. Graphics are amazing for a '95 Game Boy game.

[@mchitti]

I remember this game being fucking impossible. Never got anywhere in it really. Never liked the game. I also find the graphics horrible. It's obvious they used the same prerendered 3D sprites which worked beautifully on SNES, but the gameboy just didn't have enough shades/colour to give nice clear contrast between elements.

[@LuisHernandez-mv5fy]

What do you mean the graphics were bad?! Rare pushed the graphics capability to the max in this

[@xOmniCloudx]

+mchitti This is a gameboy game and looks incredible given how GB games actually looked. It looks more like it released on something between a GB and a GBA and no, I am not talking about the GB Color.

[@AllHailKingKurt]

Luis Hernandez everything blends together when playing on the original gameboy, especially when there are backgrounds. It makes for a unintentional camouflaged effect that makes playing the game nearly impossible.

[@Nurah.S.S]

@@LuisHernandez-mv5fy I can see where he is coming from, thought they made the graphics and movement much better in the second and third game

[@radzachreview]

This shows that Nintendo barely even tried while making the Mario games...this just looks heads above the Mario Land games

[@Compositeflash]

it is not that they didnt try. Super mario Land 1 was developed in 1989 whereas donkey kong land come out 1996. you can assume that after 7 years the technology advanced so much, that they could put way more data on one cartridge.

[@dk4002]

i think this is worse then super mario land theres too much going on and the image bleeds so sometimes you cant see shit but a blurry screen

[@suicideposter]

Pre-rendered 3D graphics look like crap in low resolution, especially when you are limited to a few colors but it is really strange how this actually looks better than the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance DKC games though. Still, if they had any concern for readability they should've hired some sprite artists to redo the graphics.

[@dk4002]

suicideposter the reason it looks good is because its on a emulator ...play this on a original gameboy and you wont get far cant tell the difference between rats and spikey pporcupines

[@NoAverageMitch]

green robot One thing that SML did that was smart (whether it was intentional or not) was make Mario's sprite small, which made it easier to see his surroundings. I have not played DKL, but from the looks of the video, it looks like you take up a pretty large amount of space. I think I would have died a lot trying to find the secrets in DKL.

[@IndustrialGirl86]

omg, I used to live for this game... so many memories. forgot how badass the songs were... would like a few of them as ringtones :P

[@DerTypausBielefeld]

For me this one and its sequel are the best gameboy games.

[@mariofan98]

This is an old longplay, this longplay was replaced in August 2017 through a 100% longplay, here is my 100% longplay: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5bcf39_qbuWopo