DIDDY'S "KONG QUEST"
               OVER VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY IMMINENT
                                


Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Sequel to the Fastest Selling Video Game in History
Expected To Dominate Holiday Sales




LOS ANGELES, May 11, 1995 -- Today, Nintendo of America Inc. announced it has joined
forces once again with the U.K.-based video game designers of Rare, Ltd., the imaginative team
responsible for Donkey Kong Country, to introduce Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong
Quest this fall.  In this exciting 16-bit sequel, Diddy Kong teams up with a new, female sidekick,
Dixie Kong, to take on the evil Kremlings who have kong-napped Donkey Kong.
     In Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rare continues to demonstrate its
technical and creative leadership by taking its proprietary design technology, Advanced Computer
Modeling (ACM), to new heights.  Rare designers have refined and improved ACM, resulting in
mesmerizing, 3-D special effects and vivid colors, even more spectacular than Donkey Kong
Country, the game which revolutionized graphics for 16-bit video game systems.
     "Nintendo raised the bar with Donkey Kong Country and created a new, unmatched, 16-bit gold standard for the entire industry," says Peter Main, Nintendo vice president, marketing. 
"We broke all records; no one else has come close to delivering this kind of performance for the
16-bit platform, and we've only just begun.  Diddy's Kong Quest will deliver spectacular
animation, enhanced level of game play and exploding colors to make it one of the hottest video
games in 1995."
     In this adventure, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong search through more than 100 fascinating,
visually compelling levels in a quest to unearth the mystery of Donkey Kong's disappearance. 
Dixie adds new game-play action as she uses her ponytail to hurl barrels and spin down from high
altitudes.  Diddy can also lift Dixie into hard-to-reach places as they try to uncover clues to
Donkey Kong's disappearance.
     Diddy's Kong Quest is an action/adventure game with the challenge and excitement of
Donkey Kong Country, but with new, obstacle-filled environments.  The action begins on the
wreck of King K. Rool's Gangplank Galleon, which crashed off the reef of the evil Kremling's
island.  In an effort to rescue Donkey Kong from King K. Rool, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong
explore a spooky haunted forest, treacherous swamps, a giant bee hive oozing with sticky honey,
and lava-filled caves.
     As Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong search for their missing buddy, they meet an entire new
cast of characters, both good and bad.  Completely re-designed Kremlings, in pirate costumes,
hinder Diddy Kong's Quest, while a new group of supporters, including a tennis shoe-clad spider
and slinky snake, hasten his search.
     The Diddy's Kong Quest soundtrack features clear, crisp stereo sound and will be
available on compact-disk through Nintendo Power's Super Power club.
     Diddy's Kong Quest has a manufacturers's Suggested retail price of $69.95* and will be
available in retail stores in November 1995.
     Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, is the leader in the worldwide $15 billion retail video
game industry.  As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond,
Washington, serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere, where
more than 40 percent of American homes own a Nintendo system.


*NOTE:  ALTHOUGH NINTENDO OF AMERICA INC. MAY SUGGEST RETAIL PRICES FOR PRODUCTS,
THE DEALER IS FREE TO DETERMINE ON ITS OWN THE PRICES AT WHICH IT WILL SELL PRODUCTS.