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|image=[[File:Rattly Crate.png|125px]]<br>An animal crate containing [[Rattly the Rattlesnake]] | |image=[[File:Rattly Crate.png|125px]]<br>An animal crate containing [[Rattly the Rattlesnake]] | ||
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' ([[List of games by date#1994|1994]]) | |first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' ([[List of games by date#1994|1994]]) | ||
|latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country | |latest_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)|Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2018|2018]]) | ||
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An '''animal crate''',<ref>{{cite|date=November 1994|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (UK) #26, Special|page=26}}</ref><ref>{{cite|date=1995|language=en-us|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' instruction booklet|page=16|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> also called a '''goodie crate''',<ref>{{cite|author=Munson, Terry and Paul Shinoda|date=1996|title=''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble'' Player's Guide|page=15|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref> is a crate that contains an [[Animal Friends|Animal Friend]]. Animal crates first appear in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' and have since recurred throughout the ''[[Donkey Kong (series)|Donkey Kong]]'' franchise. The contained Animal Friend is identifiable from its depicted silhouette on the animal crate. The [[Kong]]s can usually break one open by [[jump]]ing on it, therefore freeing the Animal Friend, and ride on it until the end of a [[level]]. | An '''animal crate''',<ref>{{cite|date=November 1994|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (UK) #26, Special|page=26}}</ref><ref>{{cite|date=1995|language=en-us|title=''Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' instruction booklet|page=16|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> also called a '''goodie crate''',<ref>{{cite|author=Munson, Terry and Paul Shinoda|date=1996|title=''Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble'' Player's Guide|page=15|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref> is a crate that contains an [[Animal Friends|Animal Friend]]. Animal crates first appear in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' and have since recurred throughout the ''[[Donkey Kong (series)|Donkey Kong]]'' franchise. The contained Animal Friend is identifiable from its depicted silhouette on the animal crate. The [[Kong]]s can usually break one open by [[jump]]ing on it, therefore freeing the Animal Friend, and ride on it until the end of a [[level]]. | ||
Animal crates have a similar counterpart, the [[Animal Barrel]]. Instead of freeing an Animal Friend, these barrels transform the Kongs into the one depicted on it. Animal crates are usually placed in areas where an Animal Friend comes in useful. For example, freeing Enguarde from his crate makes underwater levels easier for the Kongs because Enguarde can defeat most underwater enemies. Similarly, Animal Barrels are usually placed where the Kongs are required to | Animal crates have a similar counterpart, the [[Animal Barrel]]. Instead of freeing an Animal Friend, these barrels transform the Kongs into the one depicted on it. Animal crates are usually placed in areas where an Animal Friend comes in useful. For example, freeing Enguarde from his crate makes underwater levels easier for the Kongs because Enguarde can defeat most underwater enemies. Similarly, Animal Barrels are usually placed where the Kongs are required to their pictured Animal Friend, for instance [[Rattly]] in [[Rattle Battle (Donkey Kong Country 2)|Rattle Battle]], because of his high jumping ability. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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Animal crates function like Animal Barrels in the [[Game Boy Color]] remake of ''[[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Color)|Donkey Kong Country]]'', except the Squawks Crate, which is the only animal crate to function identically as in the original version, since the Kongs cannot ride [[Squawks]]. | Animal crates function like Animal Barrels in the [[Game Boy Color]] remake of ''[[Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Color)|Donkey Kong Country]]'', except the Squawks Crate, which is the only animal crate to function identically as in the original version, since the Kongs cannot ride [[Squawks]]. | ||
'''Rambi Crates''' are the only variant in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and | '''Rambi Crates''' are the only variant in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D]]'', because he is the only mountable Animal Friend of the game. Donkey Kong can open these crates either by [[Hand Slap|Ground Pound]]ing from atop or by rolling into it. In ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'', '''Rambi the Rhinoceros Boxes''',<ref>{{cite|author=von Esmarch, Nick, and Cory van Grier|title=''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=22|date=February 21, 2014|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|isbn=978-0-804-16252-4}}</ref> as they are called, appear smaller than in ''Donkey Kong Country Returns'', and cannot be opened by rolling into them. | ||
===''Donkey Kong 64''=== | ===''Donkey Kong 64''=== | ||
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==Names in other languages== | ==Names in other languages== | ||
{{foreign names | {{foreign names | ||
| | |Jap=アニマルコンテナ<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy'' instruction booklet|page=19|language=ja|publisher=Nintendo|date=1995}}</ref> | ||
| | |JapR=Animaru Kontena | ||
| | |JapM=Animal Container | ||
|SpaA=Animal Box<ref>{{cite|title=''Club Nintendo'' (Chile) ''La Jungla de Donkey Kong: Edición Especial''|page=45}}</ref> | |SpaA=Animal Box<ref>{{cite|title=''Club Nintendo'' (Chile) ''La Jungla de Donkey Kong: Edición Especial''|page=45}}</ref> | ||
|SpaAM=Animal Box | |SpaAM=Animal Box | ||
