Diddy Kong Racing

Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware. An enhanced remake for the Nintendo DS titled Diddy Kong Racing DS was released on February 7, 2007. It currently stands as the Nintendo 64's sixth-most bestselling game.

A racing game like Mario Kart 697, Diddy Kong Racing also has a distinctive adventure mode. Some of the playable characters would later appear in their own franchise titles. The game was partially intended to introduce these future franchise characters so that gamers would recognise them when these games were released. In Diddy Kong Racing, a player can choose to drive a car, hovercraft, or airplane, though a certain level may require that the player picks one of these.

Gameplay

Each world contains several race tracks, an unlockable battle stage and a race against a boss character. Depending on the race track, players may have a choice of using a car, hovercraft or plane; this choice is restricted on some tracks. Each race track contains boosters to racers that cross them, and balloons of various colors that provide powerups to racers.

If the player beats Wizpig in Future Fun Land and obtains the amulet pieces and gets all of the gold medals, the player will be able to play in a mode called Adventure 2. In this mode, all of the balloons are silver and the tracks are flipped from left to right. Along with the much sharper difficulty curve, the silver coins are also placed in different locations in each track, often in harder to reach places.

Diddy Kong Racing was remade for the Nintendo DS as Diddy Kong Racing DS. The DS version uses the stylus for control purposes only in certain instances, such as the start of the race where the stylus can be used to attain a boost. Classic gamepad controls are employed for the majority of the game.

Diddy Kong Racing DS:

Diddy Kong Racing DS is a racing game developed by Rare for the Nintendo DS. It is Rare's first Nintendo DS game, and was released on February 5, 2007, in North America, April 20, 2007, in Europe and April 19, 2007, in Australia. It is a remake of the Diddy Kong Racing. Diddy Kong Racing DS makes use of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, as well as the microphone for various features in the game, and the touch screen to create race tracks. Although some of the tracks underwent minor changes, they remained nearly identical to the N64 version.

All the characters received new voices; the most notable is Taj, whose Indian-like voice was replaced with a more generic American voice. New features in the DS version include collecting coins around tracks and using them to upgrade the player's vehicle so it can either have a higher top speed, better acceleration, better handling, or a custom design.

Characters Conker the Squirrel and Banjo the Bear were replaced with characters Dixie Kong and Tiny Kong due to copyright issues with Rare, Ltd. after Microsoft bought the company from Nintendo in 2002.

Characters:

The playable characters are:

• Diddy Kong
• Banjo (N64 version only)
• Conker (N64 version only)
• Krunch
• Tiptup
• Timber
• Bumper
• Pipsy
• Dixie Kong (DS version only)
• Tiny Kong (DS version only)
• Drumstick (unlockable)
• T.T. (unlockable)
• Taj the Genie (unlockable) (DS version only)
• Wizpig (unlockable) (DS version only)