Diddy Kong Racing Nintendo 64
  • Publisher: Nintendo
  • Release Date: Nov 24, 1997
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88 out of 100

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  • Summary: Timber the Tiger's parents picked a fine time to go on vacation. When they come back, they're going to be faced with an island trashed by the spiteful space bully Wizpig - unless the local animals can do something about it! So join Diddy Kong as he teams up with Timber the Tiger, Pipsy the Mouse and Taj the Genie in an epic racing adventure unlike anything you've ever experienced before!… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Electric Playground
    100
    Diddy Kong Racing is almost too good to be true. It is an exquisitely animated, color-rich racing game that bubbles over with character and charm. A triumph.
  2. Hot Games
    100
    "Mario Kart's" (at least the original one, anyway) biggest strength was its multiplayer mode and of course DKR does what Nintendo did but better.
  3. IGN
    84
    Diddy Kong Racing is an excellent follow-up to the somewhat controversial "Mario Kart," improving on all of the game's weaknesses and inventing a few new additions of its own. It's the best kart game we've ever seen.
  4. Nintendojo
    70
    With its lack of replay value and repetiveness, the game just gets really old.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Jswis
    10
    This game is one of those classics you have to have for n64. it was one of them that you drift in. i love it. maybe its just because i grew up with it. maybe.................................FILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfillerFILLERfillerfilllerfillerfiller… Expand
  2. JonD.
    10
    this game was great i played this almost every day i remember the graphics being great it was difficult but it was just extreemly fun i havent played it in a while but i have memorys of playin it every day for months when i was younger.… Collapse
  3. Caestus
    8
    Real fun to play and easy better then mario kart 64 with the graphics and all the vehicles in it.
  4. Pivot1022
    6
    Have any of you played through the full adventure mode? Okay this game is fuun, and adds alot more to mario karts formula. but the single player adventure gets SO BORING! if i remebre, you have to beat like every track 4-5 times just to beat the adventure mode... and i did. Oh and when you do that, you can do adventure 2... all of the tracks are just backwards... ADVENTURE HO!… Expand

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