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** This probably doesn't qualify as a [[Never Live It Down]] example anymore, since Contra 4's was pretty well received and Wayforward managed to build up its reputation with good games such as the Wii remake of [[A Boy and His Blob]], LIT and Shantae: Risky's Revenge, among their usual licensed work.
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' was, unfortunately, hyped just a little too much on its release, leading to key figures in the gaming industry slamming it, to the effect that even now it seems to be remembered as little more than a poor Mario imitator. As anyone who grew up playing it at the time can attest, this is quite wrong - it was a beautifully designed, addictive platformer with one of the best soundtracks to grace any game of any time period. And its first sequel was even better in all regards.
** Unfortunately, game music composer Grant Kirkhope has run into this with the infamous "DK Rap," which served as the [[Theme Tune Rap]] for ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. However, Kirkhope has [https://web.archive.org/web/20130926160412/http://grantkirkhope.com/donkeykong64.html stated that], contrary to [[Misblamed|popular belief]], the DK Rap was ''supposed'' to be cheesy and silly, and not a ''serious'' attempt at a rap song about cartoony talking apes.
** During the peak of [[Donkey Kong Country]]'s popularity, [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] famously complained that "players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good." What he actually meant was that he was angry at his Nintendo bosses for [[Executive Meddling|interfering with his development of]] [[Yoshi's Island]] [[Executive Meddling|by insisting that it mimic]] [[Donkey Kong Country]]'s [[Executive Meddling|visual style]]. Many took this to mean that Miyamoto believed the game itself was nothing more than eye-candy, and to this day you'll often hear people declare that Miyamoto hated [[Donkey Kong Country]].
* Nintendo will ALWAYS be considered the gaming patron saint of [[Bowdlerization]]. Never mind they have gotten past the [[Never Say "Die"]] point long ago, and how in fact they're the more LENIENT company nowadays, with games released on multiple systems having less censorship on Nintendo systems (or at least the same, but not MORE). Sure, they still censor some stuff every now and then, but no more than the others. Ironically, the most censor-happy company right now is ''Sony''. The same Sony who [[Informed Ability|supposedly]] is [[Darker and Edgier]] than Nintendo.
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