Donkey Kong Country

"Every system of any significance has a few games for which it is known. For the SNES, the most obvious candidate would be Super Mario World, but, up there on the list beside it would stand Donkey Kong Country. Although not the creator of the Donkey Kong character, Rare managed to take him from his simplistic roots and indulge him in a platformer series worthy of a major Nintendo icon. Donkey Kong Country, then, is a platformer worthy of a place in the collection of anybody who has an SNES."