{"id":1006,"date":"2025-10-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:30:22","slug":"two-classic-donkey-kong-icons-may-soon-join-bananza-as-unlockable-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/two-classic-donkey-kong-icons-may-soon-join-bananza-as-unlockable-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Classic Donkey Kong Icons May Soon Join Bananza As Unlockable Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>They&#8217;re back! Sort of&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eagle-eyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> fans have spotted an advertisement for the game&#8217;s next event, and it sounds like the rewards will be quite familiar to those who played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/donkey_kong_64\">Donkey Kong 64<\/a> back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, as spotted by X user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/upachan64\">@upachan64<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingreinvented.com\/news\/lanky-kong-and-chunky-kong-head-to-dk-bananza\/\">Gaming Reinvented<\/a>), both Lanky Kong and Chunky Kong appear to be entering the fray as unlockable figures. This comes via the Japanese version of the Switch 2 news app, which states:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/two-classic-donkey-kong-icons-may-soon-join-bananza-as-unlockable-figures\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re back! Sort of&#8230; Eagle-eyed Donkey Kong Bananza fans have spotted an advertisement for the game&#8217;s next event, and it sounds like the rewards will be quite familiar to those who played Donkey Kong 64 back in the day. Yes, as spotted by X user @upachan64 (thanks, Gaming Reinvented), both Lanky Kong and Chunky Kong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}