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Iwata Asks: Donkey Kong Country Returns - Read the Interview With the Game Creators

Okay. I'll never forget April 2008... I already talked about this around the time of E3 when we did a session of "Iwata Asks" for Donkey Kong Country Returns, but there was a bit of an incident when several of the core members at Retro Studios who had worked on the Metroid Prime series quit the company.

I didn't know what to do, but about that time, and totally by chance, Miyamoto-san said he wanted to make a new Donkey Kong Country game4 and asked if there were any good possible developers for it. I suggested Retro Studios, and that's how this project began. Donkey Kong Country: A side-scrolling action game released for the Super NES system in November 1994. In addition to three games that appeared for Super NES, a version was also released for the Game Boy Advance system.


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