Some games cost a fortune, some you can get for free, and once upon a time a game cost players just a few bananas.
Can you imagine going to a store to pick up the game, but instead of cold hard cash, or your parent's credit card, you get to pay up with some bananas? Sounds like a fever dream, right? Well, this did happen once and we're not monkeying around here.
Back in 2010, Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country Returns and some people got a very special discount for this game.
Donkey Kong Country Returns Promotion Sold Game For Bananas
What is Donkey Kong's favorite food? Of course, banana's. When Nintendo was getting ready for the release of their big new Donkey Kong title, they wanted to do something special to attract attention. While in the US for the press reveal Nintendo bought over 7,000 bananas for a giant banana pile, the press team in the UK thought of something else.
On December 1, 2010, just two days before the big release of Donkey Kong Country Returns, Nintendo released a press statement in which they revealed that three select stores will hold a very special promotion.
The first 20 Donkey Kong Country Returns fans to present a bunch of bananas at GAME stores in Oxford Street London and Merry Hill Dudley, or GameStation at Prospect Centre, Hull, from 8 am on Friday morning, can take home the game for free!
This promotion was a huge success, garnering a lot of attention from the press, as well as from Nintendo fans who showed up at these stores, hoping to get their hands on a very discounted copy of the game.
At the time of release, the Wii game cost £45. Compare that to the price of a couple of bananas, and you've got 60 happy Nintendo fans who would have likely spent the money on the game anyway. The 2010's sure were a wild time, eh?