Rocket Rush!

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Rocket Rush! is a level in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble, and the fifth area of Krematoa.

The Kongs must navigate this cliff side level in a special rocket barrel. For the first half, they must descend to the bottom, conserving fuel so that they don't run out and crash. For the second half, they'll blast up the other side of the cliff, trying to reach the top without running out of fuel. Buzzes are the only enemy here, and in the SNES version of the game, they can be killed by simply coming into contact with them. There are no bonus areas in this level.

The Gameboy Advance version is significantly different. Unlike the SNES version, Buzzes can damage the rocket, and the rocket can take two hits before exploding. To kill Buzzes, the player has to hold A to brake and burn them with the exhaust fire or they can burn them with the fire made when turning left or right. Red Buzzes however, cannot be killed. There are also a lot more Buzzes in the first part of the level, and the Star Barrel is absent from the level.

Trivia

• Strangely, on some copies of the SNES version of the game the 'G' letter is missing from this stage. It is in perfectly plain sight in the Gameboy Advance version and on the Virtual Console however.
• This is the only level that has an exclamation mark at the end of the name before getting all the Bonus Coins. This is because this level does not have any bonus stages. The same is not true in the Gameboy Advance version as an exclamation mark doesn't appear at the end of a level's name when you get all the Bonus Coins in it.