Game

Donkey Kong Country

Super Nintendo Entertainment System · 1994 · Rare · published by Nintendo · Platformer

Statement: Sixteen-bit hardware caught doing a thirty-two-bit impression with pre-rendered puppets. The disguise held for a decade. Then the meatbags bought a PlayStation.

Rare's pre-rendered Silicon Graphics sprites turned a modest SNES cartridge into one of the platform's best-selling games, sending Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong through jungle, mine and factory to reclaim a stolen banana hoard from the Kremlings.