005 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze + Our Favorite Donkey Kong Games

Nintendo Power Podcast

Chris Slate

Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Host Chris Slate is joined by Samantha Robertson and Todd Buechele from Nintendo Treehouse to discuss all the big and little enhancements made to the Donkey Kong Country(TM): Tropical Freeze game for the Nintendo SwitchTM system. And to celebrate Donkey Kong’s debut on Nintendo Switch, all the usual episode segments – Pro’s Picks, the Warp Zone game quiz and Player’s Pulse listener questions – are devoted to Nintendo’s number-one ape. 00:00 – Introduction 01:05 – Pro’s Picks 06:17 – Warp Zone 09:49 – Player’s Pulse 22:35 – Game Forecast 24:21 – Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Discussion 38:00 – Signoff Games discussed have been rated Everyone to Teen by the ESRB. If you would like to share any feedback or ideas for the podcast, or submit a question to possibly be answered in a future episode, please email us at [email protected]. Follow Nintendo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/ Follow Nintendo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Subscribe to Nintendo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nintendo

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0:00.0	Games rated E to T. Welcome to Nintendo Power Podcast. This episode we go bananas for Nintendo's number one
0:20.1	ape Donkey Kong.
0:30.8	My name is Chris Slate.
0:32.2	On May 4th, Donkey Donkey Country Tropical Frees finally comes to Nintendo Switch.
0:36.0	And it's going to bring with it Funky Kong and the new Funky Mode.
0:39.0	And since our podcast, this episode is going to post around the same time and because we're huge
0:43.9	fans of Donkey Kong and the Donkey Kong country series we thought it would be fun
0:47.5	to have a funky mode of our own here on the show and so everything we're going to
0:51.2	talk about this month is going to be themed around Donkey Kong, both the new games and the classic games as well.
0:57.0	Joining me today are two members of Nintendo Treehouse, Samantha Robertson, and Todd Bueschel.
1:01.0	Thanks for coming on the show.
1:02.0	Thanks for having us. I appreciate it. Thanks for coming on the show. Thanks.
1:04.0	Thanks, Chris.
1:05.0	Right.
1:06.0	Well, starting off with Pro's Picks like we normally do and in keeping with this episode's theme,
1:10.0	I thought it would be fun for us each list our three favorite Donkey Kong games.
1:13.8	So Sam do you want to start us off?
1:15.8	Sure so I actually brought a visual aid in I know with a podcast it's a little hard to share
1:20.2	but just so you guys can see the very first Donkey Kong game I ever played
1:24.5	was actually Donkey Kong to the Game and Watch and I managed to find that in with my
1:29.4	kit so I've got my old Game and Watch here my dad picked it up for us back when we were living in
1:34.8	Hong Kong and it's such a basic game by today's standards but this was my I think
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