History Website / DKVine

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Their Website/{{Facebook}} page has a tendency to end their series of hashtags at the end of their posts with a hashtag that has zero chance of going viral. For example, in [[https://www.facebook.com/dkvine/photos/a.338823052840217.92669.167620589960465/731001496955702/?type=1 this post]] featuring the staff ComicallyMissingThePoint of a censored image of a SecretCharacter in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU Super Smash Bros for Wii U]]', the last hashtag is called "[=WeKnowItsDuckHuntButSarcasmIsOurThingSoDontEvenStart=]".

The schism having been seeded between Nintendo and Rareware, it would only grow. Though Rare launched into the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance era with high hopes (and plans to make many new games for many of their franchises), in the end they would only get to release one game for the Nintendo Gamecube--and not in the form they had intended. At the tail end of the N64's lifespan, Rare had begun work on ''Dinosaur Planet'', an adventure game whose [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin title was self-explanatory]]. Nintendo persuaded Rare to make some changes, this time of the sort ''the former'' wanted, and the game was forced into the ''VideoGame/{{Starfox}}'' series and released on the Gamecube as ''VideoGame/StarfoxAdventures''. This would be the last straw, and in September 2002, Microsoft bought Rareware out. Though longtime fans were quick to villify Microsoft for bringing about the end of an era, this anger [[MisBlamed ignores the obvious fact]] that neither Nintendo nor Rareware were forced to accept the move--but both did. The remaining planned GCN games were cancelled, while the planned GBA games were silently released over the following two years (with the DK-related games, ''Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers'' and ''Diddy Kong Pilot'', being [[DivorcedInstallment re-branded as]] ''VideoGame/ItsMrPants'' and ''Banjo-Pilot'' respectively). Since then, with the exception of a ''Viva Piñata'' game for UsefulNotes/NintendoDS in 2008, the arrival of Rare's new software on Nintendo systems has ceased permanently.

Then, in 2010, came a very unexpected move: Nintendo, the company the DKU had long since abandoned all hope in, commissioned Creator/RetroStudios to revive the core DKU franchise in the form of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', to much celebration. Nintendo even promoted the upcoming game passionately, and Shigeru Miyamoto made a public statement apologizing for his earlier criticisms of the series. The tide had turned, and in a rather unique way. In honor, of this new development, the DKU redesigned itself, renamed itself DK Vine, focused back in on the core ''Donkey Kong'' series, and suddenly became one of the most collectively-optimistic fansites ever. Membership swelled as fans flocked to discuss the new release, and although the site has offered some constructive criticism of the game, their anticipation was largely justified. This was continued with the release of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' on the UsefulNotes/WiiU and eventually UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, to greater success in the latter.[[note]]In an ironic twist, whereas DK Vine defended the game, most of the out-of-site Nintendo fans were skeptical about it since they were hoping Retro Studios to work on a new ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' instead after the abysmal fan reception of ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', even though they had stopped working on the series after the release of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' in 2007.[[/note]]

* ClickbaitGag: A 2004 news article was titled "[[http://www.dkvine.com/?p=35 DKC4 CONFIRMED!!! WHERE’S MY PULSE???]]" The actual article is revealed to be [[spoiler:just a site update adding new screenshots to an image gallery for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version of ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong Country 2|DiddysKongQuest}}'']].

* SerialEscalation: [[http://www.facebook.com/dkvine/photos/?tab=album&album_id=989554111100438 The Saga Of Funky Kong: Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pitchman]] is an annual Website/{{Facebook}} series beginning in 2014 that sees an additional character added each year. In addition to Funky himself, we have seen -- in order -- Cranky Kong, Kiddy Kong, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, Banjo, Fox [=McCloud=], and Slippy Toad added to the growing cast.

Back around the time ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'' was the big Rareware game, Rareware had already begun promoting their two projects starring two of its costars. People had liked what they saw in ''Banjo-Kazooie.'' ''VideoGame/TwelveTalesConker64''...not so much. Besides its very juvenile, unfunny story, the game featured [[TastesLikeDiabetes flamboyant, excessively-cutesy graphics]], and test audiences were much more skeptical. Seeing this, Rareware sent the game into DevelopmentHell for several years, where it underwent excessive changes. When unveiled, the game had been transformed into ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', an M-rated, subversive take on the anthropomorphic-animal-platformer genre, released in 2001, and Nintendo was not amused. Despite good ratings, the game was a commercial flop as a result of Nintendo's utter (and deliberate) lack of coverage for it and an excessive scare-campaign to repel everyone under 17 away from the game.

-->''I'm sorry. I can't finish my thoughts on the kingdom at the moment. I just raced [[spoiler: a man in a bird costume]] and I have to come to terms with that. If I can't, then that's it. The Slush Fun'd is canceled, and I'll delete my account and never appear here again.''\\\

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: DK Vine's 2016 presidential endorsement article wasn't as well-received as Hyle would have liked, and Russian interference DDOS'd the site immediately after it was published. The site stayed down for days (still hasn't fully recovered) and it's joked about that this is what put [[YouKnowTheOne the other candidate]] over the edge.

* FiveManBand: New Staff: Chad as The Hero, Slush as The Lancer, Aussie Ben as the smart guy, Andrey as the Big Guy, and Our Friend as the chick.

The schism having been seeded between Nintendo and Rareware, it would only grow. Though Rare launched into the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube and UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance era with high hopes (and plans to make many new games for many of their franchises), in the end they would only get to release one game for the Nintendo Gamecube--and not in the form they had intended. At the tail end of the N64's lifespan, Rare had begun work on ''Dinosaur Planet'', an adventure game whose [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin title was self-explanatory]]. Nintendo persuaded Rare to make some changes, this time of the sort ''the former'' wanted, and the game was forced into the ''VideoGame/{{Starfox}}'' series and released on the Gamecube as ''VideoGame/StarfoxAdventures''. This would be the last straw, and in September 2002, Microsoft bought Rareware out. Though longtime fans were quick to villify Microsoft for bringing about the end of an era, this anger [[MisBlamed ignores the obvious fact]] that neither Nintendo nor Rareware were forced to accept the move--but both did. The remaining planned GCN games were cancelled, while the planned GBA games were silently released over the following two years (with the DK-related games, ''Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers'' and ''Diddy Kong Pilot'', being [[DivorcedInstallment re-branded as]] ''It's Mr. Pants!'' and ''Banjo-Pilot'' respectively). Since then, with the exception of a ''Viva Piñata'' game for UsefulNotes/NintendoDS in 2008, the arrival of Rare's new software on Nintendo systems has ceased permanently.

* SerialEscalation: [[http://www.facebook.com/dkvine/photos/?tab=album&album_id=989554111100438 The Saga Of Funky Kong: Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pitchman]] is an annual Website/{{Facebook}} series beginning in 2014 that sees an additional character added each year. In addition to Funky himself, we have seen -- in order -- Cranky Kong, Kiddy Kong, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, Banjo, and Fox [=McCloud=] added to the growing cast.

In TheNineties, Rareware was one of the strongest arms of Nintendo, a legacy that began in 1994, when they created ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'', a big-budget revival of Nintendo's Arcade ''Donkey Kong'' franchise. The ambitious SNES game was a success, and after two sequels on the platform, Rareware was poised to continue their legacy on the (then cutting-edge) Nintendo 64. Though Rare did not make a proper N64 sequel to the ''Donkey Kong Country'' trilogy on the N64 for a while, they ''did'' create a spin-off in the form of 1997's ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'', a game notable for (among other things) an interesting method of self-promotion: It featured {{VideoGame/Banjo|Kazooie}} and {{VideoGame/Conker|sBadFurDay}}, two characters with games of their own under development. With the release of the highly-lauded ''Banjo-Kazooie'' in 1998, the concept of the Donkey Kong Universe, a tangible canon of Rareware games linked via the presence of their characters in each other, was born. (The staff of the site explained it in TV terms, saying that the same logic makes ''Series/FamilyMatters'' part of the "''Series/PerfectStrangers'' Universe.")

* BizarroEpisode: The infamous [[http://www.dkvine.com/interactive/forums/index.php?showtopic=272 Bear Rape]] topic became such a site meme that it was reopened!

* CrackPairing: The [[http://www.dkvine.com/features/romance.html Romance of the DKU]] feature notes that fans use the chemistry system in the ''Mario Baseball'' games to justify their {{shipping}}.
--> Donkey Kong ♥z [[VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine Petey Piranha]] 4 EVA N ALWAYZ!

* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: Our Friend, Chad's camera inhabited by a lost soul. At one point he got hit in the lens cap by a wayward hoe, thought he was BobNewhart, and [[spoiler:transformed into UsefulNotes/BarackObama]]. ItsALongStory.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Their Website/{{Facebook}} page has a tendency to end their series of hashtags at the end of their posts with a hashtag that has zero chance of going viral. For example, in [[https://www.facebook.com/dkvine/photos/a.338823052840217.92669.167620589960465/731001496955702/?type=1 this post]] featuring the staff ComicallyMissingThePoint of a censored image of a SecretCharacter in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for Wii U'', the last hashtag is called "[=WeKnowItsDuckHuntButSarcasmIsOurThingSoDontEvenStart=]".

* ViewersAreMorons: Chad almost constantly in his forum posts. His angst eventually lead him to cancel [[GreenPornCity Green Porn City]]