Donkey Kong Land
Donkey Kong Land, known in Japan as Super Donkey Kong GB, is a 1995 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. It condenses the side-scrolling gameplay of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) game Donkey Kong Country (1994) for the handheld Game Boy with different level design and boss fights. The player controls the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they defeat enemies and collect items across 30 levels to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Rool.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA, read 5 September 2026.
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- Released
- 1995
- Developer
- Rare Ltd.
- Platforms
- 1 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- Unknown
- Download
- Not stated
The record
| First released | 26 June 1995 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Rare Ltd. |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Platforms | Game Boy |
| Genres | platformer |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q2718657, seeded 30 August 2026.
How long is Donkey Kong Land? How long to beat it
Total play time for Donkey Kong Land is about 3.8 hours to do everything, and around 2.5 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 2.5h | 104 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 3.2h | 36 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 3.8h | 45 |
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Where Donkey Kong Land sits on the grid
The grid places every game in the catalogue on measured axes rather than on an opinion. This is where Donkey Kong Land lands on each map it has the data for, with the share of the catalogue it beats on each axis.
- Year
- 52ahead of 8% of the catalogue
- Reach
- 22ahead of 67% of the catalogue
Percentiles are against the games that carry a reading on that axis, not the whole catalogue: counting a game with no figure as a zero would flatter everything that has one. How the grid works.
What readers say about Donkey Kong Land
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Common questions about Donkey Kong Land
What platforms is Donkey Kong Land on?
Donkey Kong Land is available on Game Boy. It first released in 1995.
Who made Donkey Kong Land?
Donkey Kong Land was developed by Rare Ltd. and published by Nintendo.
How long does it take to beat Donkey Kong Land?
about 2.5 hours for the main story, 3.2 hours with the main extras, 3.8 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.