New Games on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us The year is 2142. You play as Conrad B. Hart, a man who has lost his memory. After barely escaping from hostile aliens, Conrad's bike crashes on an unknown planet. Conrad finds himself in the jungle, and from now on his quest for survival and his lost identity begins.

]]> 06 Feb 2007 03:49:44 (taken from cover of Sega Master System version)
Tiki the Kiwi stars in the adventure of a lifetime in this arcade No.1 hit. Watch the feathers fly as you guide Tiki through the islands of New Zealand solving mazes, defeating fiendish foes, rescuing his kiwi friends and finally facing the evil Wally Walrus in the ultimate battle.
Will you be the next dish on the fresh kiwi menu? Only time will tell and it is running out fast!

ABOUT THE PLAYER:
Tiki has a range of weapons he can use to defeat the evil minions of Wally the Walrus:

Bow & Arrow : This is Tiki's default weapon.

Ray gun : Fire laser beams of death that will rip through any enemy that is unfortunate to cross it's path.

Staff : Fire a ball of plasma that not only rips through enemies, but bounces off walls as well.

Bombs : Short range bombs destroy all in a blast.

Book : This is used up as soon as it is collected, and destroys all enemies on the screen.

A remake of this game is to be released on the Nintendo DS soon.

]]> 04 Feb 2007 10:38:11 In comparison with the original Donkey Kong Country, the game contains many new features. These include a plethora of hidden bonus stages with collectible tokens rewarded for completing, more diversity in level design and level settings, an unlockable "Lost World" with extra levels, and the ability to transform into various animals (the first game included some of these animals, but the characters normally rode them, being able to transform into them only in bonus stages). A portion of the game's theme now involves sailing and pirates, as exemplified in many enemies sporting a pirate fashion and the seaside locations in some levels. While Donkey Kong Country 2 introduced new features such as these, it also abandoned a few from the original. For example, the steel barrel was removed, eliminating the ability to roll on barrels, and the ability to find hidden items in the ground was removed. However, some of these removed features were brought back in Donkey Kong Country 3.
-Wikipedia

Dying is somewhat frequent, but the difficulty is pretty low and free lives are plentiful. Even very young players will be able to get through the difficult parts through repetition.

The real game, though, is to uncover all the secrets. Each of the 40 levels has one to three bonus rooms and a single "DK coin." I believe the DK coin is the greatest innovation in all of platform games. It’s a ridiculously large, shiny, spinning coin that somehow manages to be hidden on every level. There’s something magical about finding that single, well-hidden secret on every level that just isn’t the same as finding 5 Jingos (Banjo-Kazooie), 100 coins (Mario64), or any of the ten zillion tedious things on your shopping list in DK64.
-Sirlin.net

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