I just beat Donkey Kong Land 2 on my colorless, non-lit-screen Gameboy circa 1996. I had reached the last boss earlier today in my backyard while sunning myself (FYI: it’s been sweatyballs weather here in Southern California lately this November) when the game shut off due to dead batteries right when I was heading back inside anyway.
Just now I got the urge to play again but my house is absent of double A’s so I had to play on the remaining life of the known-to-be-dead ones. I played. I fought. I won. Totally killed Captain K. Rool and saved Donkey Kong (in DK2 you play as Diddy and his hot blonde girlfriend Dixie who can move her ponytail like it were the actual tail of a pony, and also has a super equilibrium that insures she never gets dizzy). I got to watch the entire ending on that tiny shitty screen and right when it was over? -blip- Gameboy shuts off.
God let those batteries last long enough to allow my victory and the enjoyment of its spoils. Thanks God. I owe you a solid (not applicable to going to church, giving to charity or doing kind deeds).
Course, naturally, I couldn’t see shit on that screen, so I youtubed the ending and learned a lot: like that its a gun K Rool is shooting at you and the same gun that he’s using to glide to each side of the screen (i thought he was either a robot or had skates on the Gameboy).
Here’s the ending in its SNES glory:
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