[AdmiralAsshat]

Nice to see someone doing something to try to get some additional leverage out of the DK bongo drums. They're one of my favorite stupid/unnecessary videogame controller peripherals. They felt like such a missed opportunity, especially in the US. We only got three games that actually supported them, and despite my effort of actually tracking down a second pair of bongos so that my siblings and I could do multiplayer, we discovered that Donkey Konga's multiplayer mode was crap. We then got Donkey Konga 2, which was more of the same but with a worse setlist, and Donkey Konga 3 was never released stateside.

The sole redeeming feature of it was Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, which at least used the controller in a novel way to make an exciting platformer.

[dole]

Interesting there's no tracklist on wikipedia for DK3 but if it's any consolation, it was very heavily J-Pop and I think maybe 5-8 at most of the tracks were notable or recognizable by a typical westerner, but then again I'm not a massive videogame OST fan so it may have been missed on me. I remember the minigames were pretty cool but all menus were in Japanese and tough to navigate.

Edit, ah there's a tracklist on the mariowiki link. Ah well, this quote on the page: "You can import it from our partners at Lik-Sang." Lik-Sang, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...

[AdmiralAsshat]

It had the Japanese opening to Dragon Ball Z in the tracklist, which was enough to make teenage me disappointed that we didn't get it.

Having decided to look up a run of it on YouTube, however, it's probably just as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkyd_nR4DqE&list=PLNS5TsLf66...

[jhap]

I like to use the bongo drum controller to play super smash bros with my friends! It's a fun and goofy time!

[memco]

Haha! I did the same thing. If I recall its button mapping is wonky (and maybe missing one?). It does mostly work as a regular controller so it’s possible to play games that aren’t specifically designed for it albeit in a limited fashion.

[Affric]

Donkey Konga is a huge missed opportunity.

Guitar Hero/Rock Band are probably best in show for the genre.

Weird that they were so huge for such a short time. Probably the death of popular instrumented music.

[CSMastermind]

I think it was more that companies way over invested in the concept and saturated the market combined with licensing fees making a lot of the games unprofitable.