

Rare began working on Donkey Kong 64 in 1997, following the completion of Donkey Kong Country 3 (1996). In multiplayer modes, up to four players can compete in deathmatch and last man standing games. The player completes minigames and puzzles as five playable Kong characters-each with their own special abilities-to receive bananas and other collectibles. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player explores themed levels to collect items and rescue his kidnapped family members from King K. It is the only Donkey Kong game to feature 3D gameplay. Be sure to slow the game down with slowdown programs, though.Donkey Kong 64 is a 1999 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. Still, it remains one of Atari’s best PC ports that remain highly playable to this day.

This port by Atari does justice to the original arcade sensation, only minus the bright colors due to hardware limitations of PCs in 1983. Straightforward, but a lot of fun and quite addictive. You do this by jumping over barrels and other obstacles that Kong throw at you, and climbing up ladders to the top. In case you have never heard of the game until this moment (and if that’s true, you most likely never played games until recently), here’s the deal: you control a plump construction worker called Jumpman (who would later morph into a plumber named Mario in Nintendo’s most successful series) who must rescue his girlfriend Pauline from the clutches of Donkey Kong, a giant gorilla modeled after the movie. Donkey Kong is a great PC port of Nintendo's classic arcade game that needs no introduction, since it has been ported to just about every console and computer system you can imagine.
