Whilst many gamers are clamouring to know why the well-received Donkey Kong 64 has yet to appear on the Wii Virtual Console, developer Rare it seems have no idea.
“I have no idea why DK64 hasn’t shown up yet, and whether Jetpac would still be in there or they’d replace it with Mario’s Cement Factory (which ate about three years of my life as a child) or something. Or maybe a single-screen 2D shooty version of Jet Race would be more appropriate. Who knows? Not us, obviously, or we wouldn’t be sitting here pitching clueless alternatives.”
- Rare
Nintendo treated Rare like the red headed step child in the last years of their working relationship and now it’s come back to bite them.
I’m not sure if Rare has the power to hurt Nintendo per se but, this does pose an interesting question. Where in the world is DK64 for the VC? And I do know that in the past few years (which probably may be due to how Nintendo has neglected Rare in past) Donkey Kong has not been as popular as one would think he should be… well the games atleast. Perhaps Nintendo figured it wasn’t a priority. I mean, look at this here announcement…. we’re the only two who have replied thus far. So what happened to the DK love?
I have to say that although I’m a DKC fan, I would prefer see KI and KI Gold on the VC. ppplllleeeaaasssee
DK 64 was a hit! One of the best 3D adventure games of all time no doubt about it but why its not on Virtual Console? I don’t know.
I miss Diddy Kong Racing to! They should just take out Banjo and Conker and add online play to the Virtual Console version.
Dk64 is one of my favorite games. Since I got wii 3 years ago I had always look up on vc for it, why haven’t they realeased the highest ranking game in vc? A few other highest ranking games and numerous of others for kindergatens had been reakeased over the years since I got wii..isn’t it time to realease Dk64?