{"id":18384,"date":"2018-04-25T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/video_donkey_kong_tropical_freezes_new_easter_egg_is_only_on_switch"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:30:00","slug":"video-donkey-kong-tropical-freezes-new-easter-egg-is-only-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/video-donkey-kong-tropical-freezes-new-easter-egg-is-only-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze&#8217;s New Easter Egg is Only On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/video_donkey_kong_tropical_freezes_new_easter_egg_is_only_on_switch\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/video_donkey_kong_tropical_freezes_new_easter_egg_is_only_on_switch\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K_yaJjLiS_8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Easter eggs are, in our view, a lovely way for developers to make little nods to other games, franchises, or any other subject that might otherwise pass a player by. We&#8217;ve discovered one such reference to the divisive Donkey Kong Country TV show in the Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the video above, very occasionally when you leave Funky&#8217;s Fly &#8216;n Buy whilst playing as Funky Kong, Tawks will instruct Funky to &#8220;Give &#8217;em the old banana slamma, dude!&#8221;. The phrase &#8216;banana slamma&#8217; was DK&#8217;s catchphrase in the short-lived TV series.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/video_tropical_freeze_on_switch_has_an_easter_egg_about_that_old_donkey_kong_tv_show\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/video_tropical_freeze_on_switch_has_an_easter_egg_about_that_old_donkey_kong_tv_show\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot at Apr 25 15-49-26.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see the developers reaching back into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/feature_the_history_and_evolution_of_donkey_kong\">the Kong&#8217;s history<\/a>, even if this particular aspect hasn&#8217;t aged particularly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Easter eggs are, in our view, a lovely way for developers to make little nods to other games, franchises, or any other subject that might otherwise pass a player by. We&#8217;ve discovered one such reference to the divisive Donkey Kong Country TV show in the Switch version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}