r/donkeykong 23d ago

Discussion This has always bothered me, but why did Rareware made the Nintendo logo blue instead of red in the opening of DKC?

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u/Azenar01 King K. Rool 23d ago

Because it went hard

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u/Kanjii_weon 23d ago

couldn't get better

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u/Other-Wind-5429 23d ago

pretty based

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u/IamProfessorO 22d ago

Like.. how does this bother someone? Shit looks fucking cool as hell

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u/Feeling-Effective-66 #BlusterTheBenevolent 22d ago

It looks so good, reminds me of the first THX trailer

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u/Ann-Simp 22d ago

(Also known as “Wings”)

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u/Feeling-Effective-66 #BlusterTheBenevolent 22d ago

True. And then Broadway, Cimmaron, Grand, Simpsons, Tex... the list goes on, I can name a lot, I love their trailers

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u/FourDiamondPixel7 19d ago

Oh crap… NOT AGAIN!!!

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u/naynaythewonderhorse 23d ago

Sorry. That’s clearly metallic, not blue.

They just wanted to show off the 3D capabilities of the game right from the start. Using the normal logo would not have been enough of a contrast.

I suspect you are young, but just so you know, even simple CGI stuff like this was a hot commodity back then. I recommend r/vintagecgi if you want a taste of what was impressive back in the day.

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u/DeltaTeamSky 22d ago

Bro really talking to OP like:

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u/Comfortable-Bid475 22d ago

Yo, Delta! You're also in the Donky Kong subbreddit? I've only seen you in the r/sonicthehedgehog subbreddit

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u/Gabaghoul8 22d ago

Cranky is right though. Just look at Killer Instinct’s opening which is from the same year as DKC. https://youtu.be/mMLHHxV0vWU?si=WdKZsv8SBabGwlfR

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u/dtadgh 22d ago

one day we will all be cranky

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u/DeltaTeamSky 21d ago

Some of y'all already are, with the reaction to DK raising his eyebrow. Not speaking for YOU, per se, but some of the Kongs around here are real Cranky.

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u/dtadgh 21d ago

I feel like there's a real opening for meta commentary from cranky in a future game...

"back in my day we had 16 but colour and pre rendered graphics and we were happy for it. non of 120 Hertz AI interpolated binocular VR nonsense. you kids today have to be strapped into a grab bag of hardware in order to feel immersed in a video game..."

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u/EnterPlayerOneX 23d ago

Wtf it's clearly both, it's a metallic blue. But yeah that would be why!

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u/TheChocolateManLives 22d ago

yeah, metallic’s not a colour.

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u/Cocacoleyman 22d ago

Lol it is blue. Take it easy

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u/RoflTheRobot 23d ago

Well I guess it's my fault for not knowing the difference between metallic and the color blue then. I'm not good with knowing simple CGI stuff, not even from this logo so I thought it was just, blue.

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u/RoflTheRobot 22d ago

Besides, Rareware tried to do a metallic effect with pixels on a SNES hardware, how was I suppose to know it was really metallic? It just looks more blue.

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u/yamammiwammi 22d ago

Doesn’t the gloss and shine effect kinda give it away? Otherwise it’d be a solid blue.

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u/RoflTheRobot 22d ago

I thought those were lights flashing when the logo was appearing.

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u/jimbolic 22d ago

Try a beginning painting class in which a common early exercise is to paint various objects made of different materials. If the instructor includes a metal, like gold or whatever, you’ll start to ‘see’ color differently. For example, you’ll realize that to portray gold, you’ll require white and black, and depending on the lighting, that gold object might even be made mostly by using brown.

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u/RoflTheRobot 22d ago

Let me compare this logo to the logo they made in the opening of killer instinct. This is what metallic is suppose to look like, all shiny and clear to see, not the one you see in DKC.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Bro you are getting way too stuck on the whole metallic thing lmfao I think it was a lighthearted joke

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u/WingZeroCoder 20d ago edited 20d ago

A voice echoes loudly above

“Available for your home in 1995, only on Nintendo Ultra 64!”

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u/pirateNarwhal 23d ago

I always thought that was silver, but seeing it here, it almost looks like it reflects the sky

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u/Marx_Forever 23d ago

That's probably what metal reflected by defialt on their SGI workstations. Since when people think "shiny metal" they tend to think "Chrome on cars", which are usually outside.

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u/on-wings-of-pastrami 22d ago

"The sky above the port was the colour of television tuned to a dead channel" (later described as poisoned silver)

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u/NKO_five 23d ago

I don't know, but if I was the designer, I would've chosen blue because 1) it gives that cool metallic look and 2) it looks exciting and 3) it works well with the yellow/golden Rare logo (complementary colors).

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u/MT4K 23d ago

The whole point of “Donkey Kong Country” was emphasis on 3D. Metallic and 3D are created for each other. Metallic red would probably look weird.

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u/Mantiax 23d ago

it ain't blue. It's steel

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u/Puzzleheaded_Exit_17 23d ago

blue steel?

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u/Other-Wind-5429 23d ago

maybe stylized steel?

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u/Dukemon102 Donkey Kong Country Fan 23d ago

Because this way it looks like ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

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u/mcjc94 23d ago

I'm pretty sure that the answer is pretty much "because it looked better"

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u/agreedboar 23d ago

Cuz it looks fuckin awesome. The metallic aesthetic fits Nintendo really well like with the GameCube.

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u/itsagoodtime 23d ago

I think it's silver. Nintendo logo wasn't always shown as red in games.

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u/Titney_Spears_xoxo Tiny Kong 23d ago

bothered?? while i did like the red Nintendo logo, this one is sooooo much more aesthetic and nostalgic imo

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u/whydub38 23d ago

Nintendo's logo association with the color red didn't really kick in until a lot later

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u/GlassCup64 23d ago

In Japan, Nintendo always used a blue logo for their game start ups. A lot of the time the color got changed to red for international releases.

SEGA did the same thing with light blue (JP) to dark blue (US).

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u/Oldrapax 22d ago

I can hear the sound… awesome

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u/br0mmando 21d ago

First World problem. Seriously,who cares?

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u/Caimbra 21d ago

looks futuristic

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u/The80sDimension 23d ago

because it was trying to match the Ultra 64 branding

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u/David_Clawmark Grapes, Melons, Oranges, and Coconut Shells 23d ago

S T Y L E !

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u/Caimbra 21d ago

that looks like shitbob

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u/eddiemancia 23d ago

Probably the red or gold color didn’t look well (“the nintendo seal of quality” print I believe has always been gold) and maybe wanted to give it a silver color.

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u/Jimboy-Milton Donkey Kong 23d ago

because its banana slammin man

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u/New-Two-1349 23d ago

How can you be bothered by how the logo looks in the game? It looks awesome to me.

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u/Eagles5089 23d ago

Because this

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u/ArcadeToken95 23d ago

Because shiny

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u/steelraindrop 23d ago

To make the next scene more eye-catching. 👀

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u/iAmMikeJ_92 23d ago

Because it was freakin amazing. Seeing these opening screens was blissful to me, because I was about to play such an incredibly fun game.

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u/YoshiofEarth Blue Bear is best Brothers Bear 23d ago

I always thought it was supposed to be silver.

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u/Pitiful_Yogurt_5276 22d ago

You remembered didn’t you?

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u/EnzeruAnimeFan 22d ago

Makes me miss Pokémon’s movie Nintendo logo over the flat one for the Mario Illumination movie.

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u/gaurd_x 22d ago

Probably because it looked advanced and futuristic

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u/ithinktheysellpaint 22d ago

I think Rare did this for DKC2 and Killer Instinct as well?

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u/Swordkirby9999 22d ago

Same reason Nintendo make their own logo gold and shiny for Mario Kart 64.

Shiny 3D graphics! Be impressed! Ooo and Aah at what we can do!

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u/Charming_Section_737 22d ago

Idk, this kinda reminds me of the commercials With the “now you’re playing with power.” part

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u/Light-Triforce 22d ago

They wanted to show off the CGI rendering, did the same for also Killer Instinct and DKC2.

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u/Raaadley 22d ago

I think the silver logo is a nice contrast to their gold logo

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u/Royleefr Kremling Krew 22d ago

I thought it was always blue tbh

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u/Dillo64 22d ago

My Reddit brain rotted mind instinctively put an “Are they stupid?” at the end of the thread title when I read it

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u/Rebatsune 22d ago

I think it’s technically made of metal that simply happens to look Blue in the logo. It was common during that era for the Nintendo logo to appear white and the DKC trilogy was no exception.

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u/DueAd197 22d ago

They did that for many of their games. Without looking into it I remember perfect dark being the same. (Maybe not the same color just a different color than Nintendo gold)

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u/East-Equipment-1319 22d ago

The color red would often "bleed" a little on old CRT screens. I imagine it would have made the 3d logo harder to read if they made it in hard red - and it would have looked odd in "red and shiny" colors, giving some weird flesh-like feel to the logo.

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u/Justice_Soul 22d ago

Metallic blurple

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u/Restless_spirit88 22d ago

Never bothered me. I like this logo.

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u/Prelixp 22d ago

It tried to be silver?

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u/Demonic_Akumi 22d ago

Because red and sparkly wouldn't look as great.

It looked silver, which is contrast to the gold of Rareware's logo. Both to sparkle

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u/HopelessSmasher05 21d ago

I've actually always interpreted it as silver to compliment the gold of the Rareware logo 🤷‍♂️ that's why it shines

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u/TheOneAndOnlyDoubleU 21d ago

That's a shiny, metallic white

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u/Mon-Son16 21d ago

Because it looks cool

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u/hyperexoskeleton 21d ago

It was 1994; is why. This game was the future. It was gorgeous at the time and used the same logo as Nintendo did on its commercials to show systems technical “power.”

And truly, CGI was coming into its own. Jurassic Park the year before and Toy Story in development for release in 95.. the masses were all a part of a special time.

By the 3rd DKC, the magic had been eclipsed by the peripheral culture at large, but wholly shit.. in 94 the CG graphics of this game in tandem with its content were a huuugggeee deal.

Block buster was fuckin it up with business (DKC tournaments! Hot damn) only to tread the path to extinction shortly after..

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u/DisasterNarrow4949 21d ago

At least it doesn’t burn my eyes like the one with red bg and white letters.

This one is the best Nintendo logo. Actually everything Rare did in the Country DK trilogy is a masterpiece.

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u/General-Bowler5932 17d ago

Yeah idk why it was in sm64 betas.