

Musgrave confirms that this was never the case. The previous work did not get wasted as they used some of the RTS assets (as a mammoth) to populate the racing game in its early stages of development. The RTS proto did not last long and soon the team decided to evolve the project into a fun racing game, that would have been more compatible with N64 gamers. As we can read in an interesting retrospective article on the game published on GamesTM (an english magazine) and reported by MundoRare, originally DKR was born as a prototype for a new Real Time Strategy game for the N64 with a caveman / time-travel theme, worked on by a team of four (Chris Stamper, Lee Musgrave, Rob Harrison and Lee Schuneman). donkey kong platform Retro Studios Read moreĭiddy Kong Racing is an arcade / multiplayer racing game developed by Rare and released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Those images shows the stuff from previous videos, like the different icons, fonts and etc. Maybe was scrapped because of Copyrights of RARE:Ĭlick to zoom-in, it will open in another tab

It was also found on the Game Disc, that DKCR was to have 4-Player modes, still is unknown about it, but probably other Kongs could be in, similar to New Super Mario Bros. Some interesting stuff of those concept arts, are the Levels… Much levels have been changed in the development, such as Golden Temple… Some characters did changed too, such as Rambi, which was to be much more Realistic… Progressing into the Beta related stuff, when you progress in the game, you unlock some concept arts… They are separated into enemies, characters, levels and others… The video below shows some animations of Donkey Kong Country Returns:


(Info from Wikipedia)ĭevelopment on Donkey Kong Country Returns started in 2008, but it wasn’t until E3 2010 that it was revealed to the public. It is the series’s first traditional home console installment since Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, and also the first Donkey Kong Country entry not to involve Rare during the development. Donkey Kong Country Returns is a side-scrolling 2.5D platform game developed by Retro Studios and released by Nintendo for the Wii console on November 21, 2010, in North America, December 3, 2010, in Europe, and on December 9, 2010, in Japan.
