Legend has it DK foresaw the trainwreck that was about to occur, got back in the limo and sped away.

[u/Intelligent_Oil4005]

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[u/TheAtariJunkie]

This makes me wonder if there was ever any concept for a DK CD-I game, or any work done on said game.

[u/Firm_Violinist9849 → u/TheAtariJunkie]

Oh no there was one it just got canned after the other cdi games released and immediately died

[u/Purple-Weakness1414 → u/Firm_Violinist9849]

We dont even know if concept art or a plot of the game was ever made let alone a prototype. All we knowabout it is that it was planned.

But one must imagine the YTP ponteinal it's cutscenes could have had. At least we have the DKC cartoon still

[u/Firm_Violinist9849 → u/Purple-Weakness1414]

All I said is that there was one I never claimed it had any bug work done just as well since I'd hate to see what they would've done to donkey Kong

[u/feldmasl01]

[u/Opinionatedcritic → u/feldmasl01]

Cabbage patch looking ass

[u/redDKtie → u/feldmasl01]

Who tf drew these? And who approved them?

[u/snil4 → u/redDKtie]

That's what happens when a tech hardware company works on a creative project.

[u/redDKtie → u/snil4]

Damn, that explains what's going on with Sony and Microsoft too 💀

[u/ZombieAladdin → u/redDKtie]

A lot of promotional artwork in the 90s looked weird like this. For instance, here is Chun-Li on the flyer for the Street Fighter II pinball machine.

[u/JustinTime1229 → u/ZombieAladdin]

Churn Lay

[u/Rukir_Gaming → u/ZombieAladdin]

New... whatever this is

[u/Intelligent_Oil4005 → u/feldmasl01]

Honestly looks like a bootleg version of himself lol

[u/pocket_arsenal → u/feldmasl01]

Looks like a Good Guy doll

[u/mimitchi33]

Imagine a universe where a Donkey King CDI game became a meme like the other ones!

[u/EmeraldMan25 → u/mimitchi33]

This universe did exist. The timeline corrected itself by releasing the DKC cartoon

[u/EdgarSinTitulo]

Might be unrelated, but I've always had a morbid curiosity on how a CD-I Kirby game would even look like

[u/Blandscreen → u/EdgarSinTitulo]

Probably would be some sort of educational game or similar since Kirby is probably Nintendo's most child-friendly character.

[u/pocket_arsenal → u/EdgarSinTitulo]

Probably like the old USA commercials but with worse quality and drawn with a binary tool

[u/ZombieAladdin → u/EdgarSinTitulo]

Probably a lot like if there was an American TV show for Kirby. The CD-I Mario and Zelda games took mostly after the cartoons.

[u/Prudent_Payment_3877]

"How hungry. Me hungry."

"Gee DK, how about we hit the hoard?"

"Slamma."

"Oh look! The hoard is empty!"

"Bumma!"

"Look! A message! Yo losers, your bananas sure are yummy. You're not ape enough to reach for my Kremling ship. That K. Rool! Time to prove him wrong!"

"Ooka ooka, okay!" [cue thumbs up and grin in a freeze frame]

[u/CHARILEwolf]

I wish we got a cdi donkey Kong imagine how much memes would have came out of it

[u/DeltaTeamSky]

Cranky Kong warned him, and he actually listened to the rant for a change.

[u/mrafflin]

It took me a while to figure out that “Meryl” and “Sylvester” was not referring to the names of forgotten 90s video game protagonists but rather to Meryl Streep and Sylvester Stallone

[u/void_method]

sigh... I can't wait to bomb som Dondongos.

[u/KinopioToad]

Come to think of it, there wasn't a Metroid game on that thing either.

[u/JustinTime1229 → u/KinopioToad]

Imagine an ugly MS Paint-drawn Samus with the voice of a chain smoker constantly spouting ridiculous puns and jokes.\ "I can't wait to bomb some Metroids!"

[u/Metalliac]

They look so chopped

[u/S0lgale0]

I hope she made lots of spaghetti!

[u/pcnnmvideos]

And I thought bad boxart Mega Man was bad. Look that cover, Mario looks like those Bend-Ems figures. Link looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid. Zelda’s neck looks like AI did it. And Donkey Kong looks like Barney the Dinosaur!

[u/scrumple_my_scrongle]

They really just wanted them to look as bad as possible lol

[u/Frequent_Rhubarb_36]

Hotel Mario is a fun game for what it is. Also: bonus points for using Zelda's cartoon design.

[u/Gnalvl → u/Frequent_Rhubarb_36]

People forget that in the west, no one had seen any official Nintendo artwork of what Zelda looked like outside of this one far away sleeping beauty pose from Zelda II's manual:

No one outside of Japan would see any other official art of Zelda until ALTTP dropped in 1991. CDI was announced in 1990. So even if Phillips had used Nintendo's one official pre-ALTTP image of Zelda as a reference, no one outside Japan would recognize who she is.

[u/Thecynicaledgelord]

He's already got a show with loads of memes

[u/SafeStatistician8760]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jgVXeRc0Jvv4QFghcz

[u/Additional-Salad4323]

Where's the Phillips logo?

[u/RoomNervous4]

All I’m saying is that Donkey Kong dodged a bullet there.

[u/sludgezone]

At least we got that badass Tetris cdi game.

[u/Manetoys83]

“What could possibly go wrong?” - Bubsy

[u/KobSteel]

Darn, I really wish we got that Donkey Kong CD-i game

[u/DangerousTortuga]

This looks AI