Wooden Barrels make their usual appearance, they are simply regular barrels that roll when thrown and can be used to defeat most enemies.K-O-N-G Letters are found in each stage, and collecting all four spells "KONG" and gives an extra life.Collect them by defeating Koins, but now not all water stages have a ground area so they are found in a secret underwater location. DK Coins return from Donkey Kong Country 3.Bonus Coins are found at the end of each Bonus Stage. Bonus Coins are the basic Kremkoins of Donkey Kong Land III.They are the main currency of the game, needed to pay Bear. Bear Coins act much like Banana Coins from Donkey Kong Country 2.They are displayed as hearts at the bottom of the screen. Extra Life Balloons return as well, with Diddy Kong's face on them, oddly.A banana bunch is worth ten bananas and collecting 100 of them gives an extra life. Bananas and Banana Bunches return from the previous games, unchanged.Most items are carried over from Donkey Kong Country 3, and function similarly. Only five of the bosses return from Donkey Kong Country 3, the two that did not are Belcha and Squirt. Only ones that did not return are Gleamin' Breams, Koindozers, Kroc, Kuff 'n' Klout, Nibblas and Swoopies. The enemy cast is carried over from Donkey Kong Country 3, meaning there is a large enemy roster. Only Wrinkly Kong and a lone Brothers Bear literally named Bear made it into the game.Īll of the animal buddies return from Donkey Kong Country 3, except for Parry the Parallel Bird and Quawks the Parrot. Although the stage outlines are different, many enemies from Donkey Kong Country 3 return unchanged, and are defeated in similar ways.ĭixie and Kiddy Kong return as the main protagonists, but there are notably less allies than before. Dixie retains her Helicopter Spin ability from Donkey Kong Land 2 and Kiddy can use some of his special abilities from Donkey Kong Country 3, mainly being able to jump on enemies. The gameplay in this game is heavily based off Donkey Kong Country 3 where the player controls either Dixie or Kiddy Kong at a time and must get to the end of a stage successfully and pull down the Stage Flag. Their adventure would take them in new parts of the Northern Kremisphere, however with familiar enemies and bosses. Donkey and Diddy Kong set out to find it and, Dixie not to be upstaged, sets out too with Kiddy Kong. Shortly after the events of Donkey Kong Country 3, Dixie and Kiddy Kong are informed of a contest taking place in the Northern Kremisphere to find The Lost World. 6 Differences between Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions.The Game Boy version was also re-released through the Virtual Console on the Nintendo 3DS in Europe on October 30, 2014, and in North America on February 26, 2015. The GBC version of the game was re-released on the Nintendo 3DS via the Virtual Console in Japan on May 7, 2014. This version features a new default color scheme, but it lacks some animations from the Game Boy version.
The game was not released in Japan until 2000, where it was released only for the Game Boy Color and was called Donkey Kong GB: Dinky Kong & Dixie Kong (ドンキーコングGB ディンキーコング&ディクシーコング, Donkī Kongu Jī Bī: Dinkī Kongu & Dikushī Kongu in Japan). Like the other games in the Donkey Kong Land series, Donkey Kong Land III was packaged with a yellow Game Boy cartridge and was compatible with the Super Game Boy for Super Family Computer/Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Like its predecessors, it was a follow-up to the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy, in this case the game Donkey Kong Country 3. It is the third and final entry in the Donkey Kong Land trilogy.
Super Family Computer/Super Nintendo Entertainment System via Super Game Boy,ĭonkey Kong Land III is a platformer game developed by Rareware and released by Nintendo for the Game Boy in 1997. North American boxart of the game Donkey Kong Land III for Game Boy. N64 rom hacks archive.Not to be confused with the game it's based off, Donkey Kong Country 3.