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Diddy Kong Racing
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Banjo the Bear and Conker the Squirrel both made their debuts in Diddy Kong Racing, months before either one headlined a game of his own, and that tells you how much Rare packed into this cartridge. Released for the Nintendo 64 in November 1997, it wraps a kart racer around a real adventure: an island hub you drive around freely, balloons to earn, guardians to beat in one-on-one showdowns, and an intergalactic wizard pig named Wizpig who has decided Timber's Island belongs to him.
The hook is the choice of vehicle. Every racer can take a car, a hovercraft or a plane, and each one changes how a course plays: the hovercraft skims across water and sand where a kart bogs down, while the plane turns a track into a looping slalom through the sky. Ten characters fill the roster, from Diddy, Banjo and Conker to Krunch the Kremling, Tiptup the Turtle and Pipsy the Mouse, with Drumstick the Rooster and T.T. the stopwatch waiting to be unlocked. Colored balloons hand out missiles, boosts, shields, traps or a magnet, and grabbing the same color again upgrades it, so deciding which balloon to chase becomes its own little strategy.
Adventure Mode is where Diddy Kong Racing pulls away from the pack. Taj, the island's genie elephant, swaps your vehicle and issues challenge races around the hub. Dino Domain, Sherbet Island, Snowflake Mountain and Dragon Forest each hold four tracks, a trophy race and a boss duel against Tricky the Triceratops, Bluey the Walrus, Bubbler the Octopus or Smokey the Dragon. Silver coin challenges send you back through courses like Fossil Canyon hunting coins on top of a first-place finish, hidden keys open the battle arenas, and beating Wizpig opens a fifth world, Future Fun Land, followed by a mirrored Adventure 2 with platinum balloons. David Wise's bright, bouncy score carries all of it.
Up to four players can race or battle in split-screen, and the game became a phenomenon, selling around 4.8 million copies and landing among the Nintendo 64's ten best-sellers. When it was remade for the DS in 2007, Banjo and Conker were replaced on the roster, which makes the N64 original the version where Rare's full crossover lineup races together. It is Rare at its most generous: a kart racer with enough secrets to keep a save file busy for months.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1997
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Rare
- Genre
- Racing
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
Diddy Kong Racing is set on Timber's Island and revolves around Diddy Kong and his friends' attempt to defeat the intergalactic antagonist, a wizarding pig named Wizpig, through winning a series of races. The player can take control of any of the featured characters throughout the game. Diddy Kong Racing features five worlds with four racetracks each, and the ability to drive a car, hovercraft, or pilot an aeroplane.
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