Diddy Kong Racing

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Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing Logo.jpg
Diddy Kong Racing logo
Studio Rare
Publisher Nintendo
Erstveröffent-
lichung
JapanJapanNovember 21, 1997 November 21, 1997 November 24, 1997
EuropeEurope
North AmericaNorth America
platform Nintendo 64
genre Racing game
Game mode Single player , multiplayer
control Nintendo 64 controller
language Audio : English
Text : Japanese , English, German , French
Age rating
USK released from 0
PEGI recommended from 3 years

Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game developed by Rare for the Nintendo 64 game console in which the player can take control of various characters from Rare games. It is considered one of the best racing games for the N64. According to the 1999 Guinness Book of Records , the game received 800,000 pre-orders in the two weeks leading up to Christmas 1997.

description

For a long time nothing was known about the development of the game and it was rumored that Nintendo kept the development a secret because Diddy Kong Racing was obviously a number better than Mario Kart 64 and they wanted to avoid hesitant customers from giving up Mario Kart 64 and then could turn to Diddy Kong Racing . Only when the release of Rares Jump 'n' Run Banjo-Kazooie had to be postponed, Nintendo announced that it would release the almost finished Diddy Kong Racing as a replacement a few weeks later.

The special thing about the game is the adventure mode, in which you, as a single player, have to unlock all routes, defeat the bosses and collect silver coins during the race. The races will be held with cars, hovercrafts and airplanes:

Well-known figures among the drivers

Note: All characters in this game (except Diddy Kong ) first appeared in this game.

successor

Two successors to Diddy Kong Racing were originally planned: Diddy Kong Pilot for the Game Boy Advance and Donkey Kong Racing for the GameCube . However, when the developer Rare was bought by Microsoft , the rights to the Donkey Kong series could no longer be used by them. As a result, work on Donkey Kong Racing was stopped. Diddy Kong Pilot for the Game Boy Advance was developed further, but without the Kong characters, which were replaced by characters from Banjo-Kazooie . The game was renamed Banjo Pilot and was released in early 2005, but received only average ratings. At the beginning of 2008, a new racing game with characters from the Donkey Kong series, Donkey Kong Jet Race , was released, but it had been developed by a completely different studio and was largely rated negatively by the trade press.

New edition

Diddy Kong Racing DS
Diddy Kong Racing DS Logo.jpg
Diddy Kong Racing DS logo
Studio Rare
Publisher Nintendo
Erstveröffent-
lichung
United StatesUnited StatesFebruary 5, 2007 April 20, 2007
EuropeEurope
platform Nintendo DS
genre Racing game
Game mode Single player , multiplayer
control Buttons / buttons / touch screen
language Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
Age rating
USK released from 0
PEGI recommended from 3 years

At E3 2006, Nintendo showed a new edition of Diddy Kong Racing for the handheld Nintendo DS . Rare was again responsible for the development , who reprogrammed the game from scratch and integrated new things in addition to the usual content. The previous drivers Banjo and Conker have been replaced by other family members of the Kong clan. Diddy Kong Racing DS was released in the US in February 2007 and was released in Europe on April 20th .

Racetracks

Name (N64) Name (NDS) automobile hover
craft
flight
convincing
Rumpelsee Primeval lake Yes Yes Yes
Skeleton Canyon Fossil Canyon Yes Yes Yes
Jungle fall Jungle falls Yes Yes Yes
Bubbling Volcano Ember volcano No Yes Yes
Frostbite tip Eternal ice point Yesa Yes Yes
Walrus Bay Walrus fish Yes Yes No
Snowball canyon Snowball valley Yes Yes No
Ice city Frostweiler Yes Yes Yes
Blue whale bay Whale bay No Yes No
Crescent Island Sickle island Yes Yes No
Pirate lagoon Pirate lagoon No Yes No
Treasure caves Treasure grottoes Yes Yes Yes
Windmill level Windmill field Yes Yes Yes
Grünstadt Grünholzweiler Yes Yes No
Canyon Rubble gorge No Yes No
Magic forest Haunted forest Yes Yes No
Himmelsallee Stardust avenue Yes Yes Yes
Lunar catacombs Moonlight caves Yes Yes No
Alpha spaceport Alpha spaceport Yes Yes Yes
Star city Star City Yes Yes Yes
- Thunder Bay b Yes Yes Yes
- Serpentine tip b Yes Yes Yes
- Soaking wet pass b Yes Yes Yes
- Lost Temple b No Yes Yes
a on this course you can only drive a car on the original version
b these courses only appeared on the Nintendo DS version

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diddy Kong Racing at nintendo.co.jp
  2. http://www.traumerlebnis.de/news2.htm
  3. Diddy Kong Racing DS at nintendo.com
  4. Diddy Kong Racing DS at nintendo.de
  5. E3 06: Microsoft's rare working on DS game