Donkey Kong 64 is finally being added to Nintendo Switch Online, so now you can experience his first ever 3D platformer on a handheld.
Despite being intrinsically linked to the great ape, Rare actually didn't spend that much time with Donkey Kong. Between 1994 and 1999, the Donkey Kong Country trilogy rebooted the whole franchise, the Donkey Kong Land games adapted those to Game Boy, and then finally the studio took what it learned with Banjo-Kazooie to make a 3D platformer (also Diddy Kong Racing, too, I didn't forget). And while the Country games have been on Nintendo Switch Online since the service launched in 2021, Donkey Kong 64 has been one of the biggest omissions from the N64 library.
