Donkey Kong Jungle Beat: Peripherals and Donkey Kongness | Episode 30

Today on Never Was A Gamer, we're talking about the last full game in our arc on unusual, focused mechanics: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat! It's the closest you can come to owning a full bongo drum peripheral without having to clear a space in your tiny apartment closet. 

We're talking about video game peripherals, immersion, the limits of the gamer body, and how the hell Nintendo came to make a mainline Donkey Kong game that you play with a set of damn bongos. Join us!

Timecodes:   

1.25  Peripherals and unusual mechanics.   

10.40  Donkey Konga.   

BREAK (Warning: Kirby break, do not listen)   

17.00  Developing Jungle Beat.   

30.00  What's it like to play?   

BREAK   

36.45  Okay but with bongos though?   

44.00 But is it a Donkey Kong game?   

1.00.00  Standout levels.   

1.09.35  Final thoughts.