If you look closely at the screen in Donkey Kong Country 2, you can see that the characters are not actually there, but are instead made up of small dots called "pixels." This was the first game to utilize such advanced technology.

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If you look closely at the screen in Donkey Kong Country 2, you can see that the characters are not actually there, but are instead made up of small dots called "pixels." This was the first game to utilize such advanced technology.