Donkey Konga | 
 enlarge | From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 3556
Platform: Gamecube
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Gamecube
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 8 x 5.9
MPN: dolr g kge
Model: 45496961299
UPC: 045496961923
EAN: 0045496961299
ASIN: B0002ILS1A
Release Date: September 8, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: In like new condition with original case and inserts.
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| Features:
| • | Non-stop musical mayhem as you drum along to 30 songs, from childhood classics to modern hits | | • | Help Donkey and Diddy Kong clap their way through old and new songs, following the rhythms of the tune | | • | Earn coins for keeping up with the beat, then use the coins to buy new sounds and add new elements to the music | | • | Multiplayer action for 1-4 players | | • | Includes Bongo Controller |
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Product Description
Donkey Konga is a fun music-based game for a unique kind of gameing experience. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong came across a pair of weird barrels on a deserted beach. They take them to Cranky Kong for an explanation and discover that the barrels are really a legendary musical instrument that plays music when you drum or clap. Now they'll try to become famous musicians and earn fame, fortune and lots of bananas!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 DON-KEY KONG-GA May 22, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is different to many others because of its unique controller - a set of bongo drums. I originally bought this game for my mother who is a fan of Nintendo's characters and loves Bongos but this game was a little too hard for her and not fun.
The actual gameplay consists of a bar with a combination of either blue stars, yellow circles, red circles or purple circles, which stand for hitting the left drum, hitting the right drum, clapping and hitting both drums together.
The game itself features 30 songs from artists (always American, never Japanese which is VERY disappointing!) and Nintendo themes.
As the song plays, the different symbols run along the bar and you have to match the right action to get points (and coins in only one section to buy items/songs/etc.)
My mother got bored with the same repetitive motions all the time and stopped playing soon after I'd bought it for her. Even the multiplayer isn't interesting as it just features `get higher points'.
And if you want bonus games, bongo sounds, etc. you can only earn coins to buy these things in one section and you have to keep redoing the same songs to get up your coin total which can take along time when you earn around 100 coins each go and some music costs 9999.
Overall if you're a fan of Donkey Konga, I think you'll like this but it's not something to waste your money on, on a rainy day. Try Eyetoy on the PS2 instead.
DON-KEY KONG-GA May 22, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game is different to many others because of its unique controller - a set of bongo drums. I originally bought this game for my mother who is a fan of Nintendo's characters and loves Bongos but this game was a little too hard for her and not fun.
The actual gameplay consists of a bar with a combination of either blue stars, yellow circles, red circles or purple circles, which stand for hitting the left drum, hitting the right drum, clapping and hitting both drums together.
The game itself features 30 songs from artists (always American, never Japanese which is VERY disappointing!) and Nintendo themes.
As the song plays, the different symbols run along the bar and you have to match the right action to get points (and coins in only one section to buy items/songs/etc.)
My mother got bored with the same repetitive motions all the time and stopped playing soon after I'd bought it for her. Even the multiplayer isn't interesting as it just features `get higher points'.
And if you want bonus games, bongo sounds, etc. you can only earn coins to buy these things in one section and you have to keep redoing the same songs to get up your coin total which can take along time when you earn around 100 coins each go and some music costs 9999.
Overall if you're a fan of Donkey Konga, I think you'll like this but it's not something to waste your money on, on a rainy day. Try Eyetoy on the PS2 instead.
not bad, could be even better September 15, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game is not bad. you beat LEFT, RIGHT, BOTH, CLAP according to the music notes that scroll across the screen.
however, for some songs, the beat of the song doesn't match that of the appearing note, even for the simple level. on the difficult level, the notes come out just too fast and you can't even match that to the tempo, not to mention you have to match the LEFT/RIGHT/BOTH/CLAP. can you do 5 or 6 LEFT/RIGHT/BOTH/CLAP within 2, 3 seconds without mistake? to me, maybe that's possible if the notes is memorized... but is this a game about memorization?
also, this game could improve by setting a mode that a "star" comes out instead of the LEFT/RIGHT/BOTH/CLAP, and with the star you can do LEFT/RIGHT/BOTH/CLAP and it still count as a "match". that way, it can be simpler and it can work like the taiko drum master on ps2.
Gameplay = Great, Music = Mediocre August 7, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love the bongo idea, it's actually a really fun game. However, if this game had a wider selection of songs, I'd give it a five.
If you ask me, 30 songs isn't enough. It'd be nice if one could unlock the rest, and ending up with at least 75 songs, like most music games have, i.e. DDR.
Also, I found that this game has mostly oldies tunes. I don't enjoy oldies all that much...it'd be better if we could get some newer songs in this game. Like, hits from nowadays. Yes, we can have SOME oldies songs in the game, but just a few. After all, kids and teens are most likely to be playing this game, and what do they listen to? New stuff.
So, only buy this game if you care about gameplay, and not about music, because, this isn't really a music game, with such a small selection of music.
sweet game July 26, 2005
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
the new bongos make the game better then others. but if u what to play with 2 or more u need more bongos or more controlers. all in all it rocks.
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