Donkey Kong Country Returns/Trivia


 * Shout Out:
 * A stage set in the ruins features an enormous stone statue of the original Donkey Kong holding a Wii remote, as opposed to a barrel, over his head. In fact, the sprite is a modified sprite from Donkey Kong Jr. Math, with the tie added and a sign replaced with the Wiimote.
 * One of the stages is named King of Cling.
 * In "Foggy Fumes", one of the Smokey Factory levels, you can see the first level from the original Donkey Kong.
 * In the beach levels there are crab enemies that scuttle sideways along the ground. Ground pound near them and they'll flip over - ground pound again and they'll flip over again, unlike most enemies with stay stunned.
 * Mr Game and Watch appears in the background of the aforementioned factory stage, which itself is stylized to look like a Game & Watch game.
 * In 'The Mole Train', watch Mole Miner Max's facial expression carefully when he's enchanted by the tikis. Remind you of anything? Dun-dun-DUNNNN!
 * Tiki Tong has an eye tic similar to that of King K. Rool.
 * Retro created the Metroid Prime games, and they slipped in a few shout outs to Metroid in there:
 * In the first factory level, you can see Crocomire's skull in the foreground.
 * You can also see fossilized Infant Leviathans from Metroid Prime 3 in one of the cliff levels.
 * The Volcano Vibe theme also sounds very similar to the Magmoor Caverns theme.
 * The entire game is one to the original trilogy, although it predominantly references the first game. In fact, two of the stages reuse names from the original game: "Jungle Hijinx" and "Vine Valley".
 * In "Button Bash", there's a giant monkey statue wearing a tie patterned with the American flag. This is undoubtedly a reference to video game champion Billy Mitchell (from the movie The King of Kong), who was known for wearing the same.
 * Tiki Zing is named after an enemy that served a very similar purpose in DKC 1 and 2, the Zinger.
 * Tiki Zing is named after an enemy that served a very similar purpose in DKC 1 and 2, the Zinger.