While gamers hold their breath for 64-bit systems, Nintendo has landed a wallop with its new Donkey Kong Country, a huge, 32-Mbit SNES cartridge.
The irony is this: Donkey Kong Country looks better than everyone else's teaser shots of technically more advanced software and hardware, thanks to Donkey Kong's ray-trace rendered 3-D graphics. To create a big ape with more lifelike manners, designers spent hours studying and videotaping gorillas at a nearby zoo. The onscreen interpretation has a pleasantly lurking, simian feel. You'll think, Yes, this really is how a gorilla boogies.
And if prerelease orders are any indication (more than 2.2 million before the game hit store shelves on November 21), Donkey Kong Country is set to become the biggest videogame seller in history.
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