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Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge

The Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge is a cut-down competition variant of Donkey Kong Country manufactured for use in the Nintendo PowerFest '94 game competition and later featured in the Blockbuster…

21 November 1994

Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge is a platform developed by Rare, released 21 November 1994 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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What Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge is

Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge is a platform game developed by Rare and released in 1994. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Super Nintendo Entertainment System only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge is a cut-down competition variant of Donkey Kong Country manufactured for use in the Nintendo PowerFest '94 game competition and later featured in the Blockbuster World Video Game Championships II event. Following the end of the later contest, copies of the Competition cartridge were sold in a Nintendo Power subscribers catalogue. Due to its rarity (the back insert states the print run was of 2,500 copies), the game has become a prized collector item. The actual game consists of a few select levels from Donkey Kong Country with the addition of a point counter and a few minor tweaks to encourage scoring, the goal being to score as many points as…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series

Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge is the 43rd of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was PSS-63 in 1994.

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What it launched against

Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge launched on 21 November 1994, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country, The Lion King, Tekken and Breath of Fire II.

Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country, The Lion King, Tekken, Breath of Fire II.

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When did Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge come out?
Donkey Kong Country: Competition Cartridge was released on 21 November 1994 for Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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