I think we’re the same age. I turned 14 and started highschool in 1997.
Maybe I’m remembering wrong and that was not the first time I heard of Playstation. None of my good friends had one. If they were into gaming it was Nintendo systems and computer games. If I’d heard of Playstation before that, I did not realize that it was CD system and not one that took cartridges, that was new information to me. Honestly, I only found out from you that Playstation was more popular than N64 a year ago. I didn’t realize that N64 was a commercial disappointment.

I never owned a consul system other than SNES. My parents probably never would have bought me a game system. I was allowed to have an SNES because I won it selling candy for my school, but I was allowed by them to pick it as my prize and they did buy me games for it as gifts.

“Black Ice Battle” is one of the Lost World levels. There is a whole area of Lava levels.

I remembered Toxic Tower being brutal, but didn’t think it was that hard this time. Honestly, if you only died 10 times in DK 1 then the second game should also be easy.

The “story” elements in DK 3 are mostly just talking to bears and trading stuff with them. You get vehicles from Funky to navigate the overworld, and have to use them to find caves where you play Simon, it’s dumb but it doesn’t ruin the game.

I played some of the Gameboy Donkey Kong game and liked it. I have a Super Game Boy, which I need to play Link’s Awakening. I have Metroid 2 and like that game as well, but it’s been made obsolete by the illegal remake.

Have you played the Donkey Kong Land games? I’m kind of curious, but I remember playing one for a few minutes and thinking that it was hard to see my sprites, and I know that other people have that complaint as well.

The one hidden thing I had the most trouble finding, and caved in and looked up the answer, concerns following a barrel shot out of a gun, and floating to the left past an arrow made of bananas, until the barrel hits a wall and opens up a bonus level. I think it’s in some swamp level or something?

I think what you’re describing is in Web Woods, but there are a couple of puzzles like that so maybe it was in one of the swamp levels.

I definitely beat those games without looking up any kinds of hints. I did play them with my sisters, so they found some of the hidden stuff. We didn’t have the internet when we first beat #2. I think I still didn’t think of it as a resource to cheat at video games when we played through #3 a year later.

I didn’t use any sort of guide this time either.

The third game came out after N64 and shows Wrinkly playing an N64. I’ve seen people remark that at the time it was late to be putting that game out, but now it’s aged less than alot of N64 games. I’ve read similar remarks that DOOM 64 looked oldfashioned when it came out because it has tiled graphics, but that it now looks less dated than most of the games on the system.

I actually bought DK 3 summer of 1998, and it was still being sold new in stores at that point.

Also, re DOOM and 1994, DOOM II did come out in 1994 and that was sold in stores. DOOM was shareware at first, the box version was called ULtimate DOOM and came out in 1995, after DOOM II.