Switch 2: 10 GameCube Classics That MUST Be Added

While some fans may be clamouring for the return of Donky Konga, licensing issues mean those desperate to revisit the days of DK bopping along to Losing My Religion will just have to dig their GameCubes out of storage. There is, however, one bongo-based game free from such restrictions - the hugely underrated Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat.

Jungle Beat saw GameCube owners control gaming's most famous ape via the console's sadly underutilized bongo peripheral. Tapping the left or right bongo would move DK in the respective direction, hitting them at the same time made him jump, and clapping saw DK literally slap his hands together like he was the Incredible Hulk.

Nintendo crafted a pleasingly visceral platformer out of this percussion-based control scheme, and one that has already been proven to work even without the equipment the game was built around. The 2010 Wii remaster showed that motion controls make an adequate substitute for bongo bashing. It would take some doing, but one can't wonder if the Switch 2's Joycons would provide an equally satisfactory replacement.

Really, the only downside for releasing Jungle Beat is that it'll make you long for the days when Donkey Kong games didn't have the endgame lopped off so it could be sold as DLC.