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Donkey Kong 64
''Donkey Kong 64'' is a 1999 platform game developed by Rare (company), Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the first ''Donkey Kong'' game to feature 3D gameplay. As the gorilla Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong, the player explores themed Level (video games), levels to collect items and rescue his kidnapped family members from King K. Rool who seeks to destroy DK Isles. The player completes minigames and puzzles as five playable Kong characters—each with their own special abilities—to receive bananas and other collectibles. In multiplayer modes, up to four players can compete in Deathmatch (video games), deathmatch and last man standing (video games), last man standing games. Rare began working on ''Donkey Kong 64'' in 1997, following the completion of ''Donkey Kong Country 3'' (1996). It was conceived as a 2.5D platformer similar to ''Country'' before becoming a more open-ended game using the game engine, engine from Rare's ''Banjo-Kazooie (video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rare (company)
Rare Limited is a British video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Twycross, Leicestershire. Rare's games span the platform, first-person shooter, action-adventure, fighting, and racing genres. Its most popular games include the '' Battletoads'', '' Donkey Kong'', and '' Banjo-Kazooie'' series, as well as games like '' GoldenEye 007'' (1997), '' Perfect Dark'' (2000), '' Conker's Bad Fur Day'' (2001), '' Viva Piñata'' (2006), and '' Sea of Thieves'' (2018). Tim and Chris Stamper, who also founded Ultimate Play the Game, established Rare in 1985. During its early years, Rare was backed by a generous budget from Nintendo, primarily concentrated on Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. During this time, Rare created successful games such as '' Wizards & Warriors'' (1987), '' R.C. Pro-Am'' (1988), and '' Battletoads'' (1991). Rare became a prominent second-party developer for Nintendo, which came to own a large minority stake in the company, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deathmatch (video Games)
Deathmatch, also known as free-for-all, is a gameplay mode integrated into many shooter games, including FPS game, first-person shooter (FPS), and real-time strategy (RTS) video games, where the goal is to kill (or Glossary of video game terms#frag, "frag") the other players' characters as many times as possible. The deathmatch may end on a ''frag limit'' or a ''time limit'', and the winner is the player that accumulated the greatest number of frags. The deathmatch is an evolution of competitive Multiplayer video game, multiplayer modes found in game genres such as fighting games and racing video game, racing games moving into other genres. Gameplay In a typical first-person shooter (FPS) deathmatch session, players connect individual computers together via a computer network in a peer-to-peer model or a client–server model, either locally or over the Internet. Players often have the option to communicate with each other during the game by using microphones and speakers. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
is a 2004 platform game, platform and Score (game), score-attack game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It follows the gorilla Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong as he sets out to defeat a series of evil kings to conquer the jungle. ''Jungle Beat'' is designed for use with the DK Bongos, a bongo drum-style GameCube controller created for the ''Donkey Konga'' (2003) rhythm game. The player controls Donkey Kong through various side-scrolling Level (video games), levels as he collects bananas, swings on vines, chains combo (video games), combos, rides animals, and defeats enemies and boss (video games), bosses. The debut project of the 65-member Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development#Tokyo Software Development Department, Nintendo EAD Tokyo, ''Jungle Beat'' development began around July 2003, after Shigeru Miyamoto suggested that Nintendo should commission a new ''Donkey Kong'' game. Development was led by director Yoshiaki Koizumi and producer Takao Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo-Pilot
''Banjo-Pilot'' is a 2005 kart racing video game for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) and the fourth installment in Rare (company), Rare's ''Banjo-Kazooie'' series. It plays similarly to the ''Mario Kart'' series by Nintendo: the player races one of nine playable characters around kart circuit, tracks, attacking other racers with bullets and collecting power-ups. The game features a number of single-player and multiplayer modes, such as time attack and item hunts. Unlike other kart racing games, characters control airplanes instead of go-karts. Rare and Nintendo announced ''Banjo-Pilot'' at E3 2001 under the title ''Diddy Kong Pilot''. At this point, it was the sequel to Rare's ''Diddy Kong Racing'' (1997), and featured characters from Nintendo's ''Donkey Kong'' and ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' series. However, workplace politics, company politics and Nintendo's concerns about quality delayed ''Diddy Kong Pilot'' past its planned release date in March 2002. After Microsoft acquired Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The early 1980s and home computers, rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the List of the largest software companies, largest software maker, one of the Trillion-dollar company, most valuable public U.S. companies, and one of the List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands globally. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. During the 41 years from 1980 to 2021 Microsoft released 9 versions of MS-DOS with a median frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Critics Awards
The Game Critics Awards were a set of annual awards held after the E3 video game conference since 1998. The awards were given to products displayed at E3 with the title Best of E3 of their category. The 21st Annual Game Critics Awards was showcased for the final time in 2019, four years before E3 was permanently discontinued. Format The nominees and winners of the awards were chosen by individual judges representing 35 (as of 2011) major North American media outlets. The awards were given independently of the Expo's organizers. Current categories Note on "all systems" as platform: Because games shown at E3 may still be in development, the platforms for which the game is published might differ. Best of Show *2019: '' Final Fantasy VII Remake'' (for PlayStation 4) *2018: '' Resident Evil 2'' (for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) *2017: '' Super Mario Odyssey'' (for Switch) *2016: '' The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild'' (for Wii U and Switch) *2015: '' Fallout 4'' (for PC, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holiday Season
The Christmas season or the festive season, also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from November or December to early January. Incorporating Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the various celebrations during this time create a economics of Christmas, peak season for the retail sector (Christmas/holiday "shopping season") extending to the end of the period ("January sales"). Christmas window displays and Christmas lights, Christmas tree lighting ceremonies are customary traditions in various locales. In Western Christianity, the Christmas season is traditionally synonymous with Christmastide, which runs from December 25 (Christmas Day) to January 5 (Twelfth Night (holiday), Twelfth Night or Epiphany (holiday), Epiphany Eve), popularly known as the Twelve Days of Christmas, 12 Days of Christmas. Christmas in Italy is one of the public holidays in Italy, country's major holidays and begins on 8 December, with the Feast of the Immacula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweepstake
In the United States, a sweepstake is a type of contest where a prize or prizes may be awarded to a winner or winners. Sweepstakes began as a form of lottery that were tied to products sold. In response, the FCC and FTC refined U.S. broadcasting laws (creating the anti-lottery laws). Under these laws sweepstakes became strictly "No purchase necessary to enter or win" and "A purchase will not increase your chances of winning", especially since many sweepstakes companies skirted the law by stating only "no purchase necessary to enter", removing the consideration (one of the three legally required elements of gambling) to stop abuse of sweepstakes. Today, sweepstakes in the United States are used as marketing promotions to reward existing consumers and to draw attention to a product. By definition, the winner is determined by pure random chance rather than skill. Marketing Sweepstakes with large grand prizes tend to attract more entries regardless of the odds of winning. Theref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Random-access Memory
Random-access memory (RAM; ) is a form of Computer memory, electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working Data (computing), data and machine code. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read (computer), read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory, in contrast with other direct-access data storage media (such as hard disks and Magnetic tape data storage, magnetic tape), where the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and arm movement. In today's technology, random-access memory takes the form of integrated circuit (IC) chips with MOSFET, MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) Memory cell (computing), memory cells. RAM is normally associated with Volatile memory, volatile types of memory where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nintendo 64 Accessories
Nintendo 64 accessories are first-party Nintendo hardwareand third-party hardware, licensed and unlicensed. Nintendo's first-party accessories are mainly transformative system expansions: the 64DD Internet multimedia platform, with a floppy drive, video capture and editor, game building setup, web browser, and online service; the controller plus its own expansions for storage and rumble feedback; and the RAM-boosting Expansion Pak for big improvements in graphics and gameplay. Third-party accessories include the essential game developer tools built by SGI and SN Systems on Nintendo's behalf, an unlicensed SharkWire online service, and unlicensed cheaper counterparts to first-party items. In the fifth generation of video game consoles, the Nintendo 64 had a market lifespan from 1996 to 2002. First-party First-party Nintendo 64 accessories have a product code prefixed with NUS, short for "Nintendo Ultra Sixty-four". Controller The Nintendo 64 controller (NUS-005) features a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo-Kazooie
''Banjo-Kazooie'' is a platform game series developed by Rare, a British company. The games feature a male bear named Banjo and his friend, a large female red bird named Kazooie, both of whom are controlled by the player. Banjo originally made his debut as a playable character in 1997 as part of the cast of '' Diddy Kong Racing''. Throughout the various games, they are tasked with thwarting the various evil schemes of a witch named Gruntilda. The first game, '' Banjo-Kazooie'', was released in 1998 to critical acclaim and was followed by three sequels and a spin-off racing game. The franchise debuted on the Nintendo 64 and subsequent entries in the series also appeared on Game Boy Advance and Xbox 360. The three main titles then saw a release on Xbox One as part of '' Rare Replay''. The franchise has been largely dormant since the release of '' Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'' in 2008. However, Banjo and Kazooie have made occasional appearances in later crossover titles such as S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo-Kazooie (video Game)
''Banjo-Kazooie'' is a 1998 Platformer, platform game developed by Rare (company), Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. Controlling the player characters, the bear Banjo & Kazooie, Banjo and the bird Banjo & Kazooie, Kazooie, the player attempts to save Banjo's kidnapped sister Tooty from the witch Gruntilda. The player explores nine nonlinear Level (video games), worlds to gather items and progress. Using Banjo and Kazooie's traversal and combat abilities, they complete challenges such as solving Puzzle video game, puzzles, jumping over obstacles, and defeating boss (video games), bosses. Rare conceived ''Banjo-Kazooie'' as a role-playing video game, ''Project Dream, Dream'', for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System following the completion of ''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' (1995). The 15-member team, led by Gregg Mayles, transitioned development to the Nintendo 64 and retooled the game as a platformer after the role-playing format proved too c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
