Tera Kirk reviews Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, and places it in a noble historical context:
"In the world of gaming technology, the peripheral is the child star-turned alcoholic. The industry has always been flooded with devices that let players shoot virtual ducks with a "real" gun or compete against a robot or…whatever it was the Power Glove was supposed to do. Many of these gadgets aren't bad ideas in and of themselves. It's just that—like a kid who wants to be an astronaut one week and a cowboy the next—game developers often lose interest in these add-ons and leave them to languish on the Island of Misfit Accessories. But today, the peripheral's prospects are looking up. Sony's EyeToy camera is enjoying success with games like Antigrav, and now Nintendo's brought us the DK Bongos controller. Does playing bongos change gaming for the better? In the case of Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, I think so. "
The rest of her review is available
here.
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