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Diddy Kong Racing
Nintendo 64
Released On: Nov 24, 1997
88
8.4
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
88
87% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
88
87% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
13% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Take Diddy for a test drive and you'll be hooked. It's the smoothest ride you can buy this holiday season.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 270 User Ratings
8.4
80% Positive
215 Ratings
215 Ratings
19% Mixed
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
1% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 270 User Ratings
8.4
80% Positive
215 Ratings
215 Ratings
19% Mixed
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
1% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Mar 18, 2025
I love the game mode where you spill the baby oil and race down the massive slide. The bottom of the slide is low and starts to taper away. While your speed fades at the end of the slide, your enjoyment does not as you imagine going down the slide again.
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Nintendo 64 Sep 17, 2023
Para mi este juego es mejor que el mario 64 .Tiene un modo historia muybien logrado! , modos minijuegos muy buenos y **** pudieras escoger tres tipos de conduccion lo hizo estupendo y unico!. Los competidores son variados y animados, y no son los unicos ya que mas adelante te desbloqueas a otros competidores ! ademas que el soundtrack de las pistas wow, les da esa atmosfera magica al juego!
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Nintendo 64 Beneath the day-glo grass and cuddly-wuddly wittle characters beats the brutal, steroid-pumped heart of a sadistic beast who eats raw liver and stamps on puppies for laughs. Everything about Diddy Kong Racing is perfect.
Buy Diddy Kong Racing for the very good Adventure mode, but don't expect multiplayer action on the same level as the Mario Kart series.
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.
Though it tries to be Kiddy Kong, Diddy Kong Racing is not a kiddie game. This is challenging, full blown racing at its best.
Artificially lengthening games by making you do the same thing over and over again is my vote for the worst trend in gaming … even though this is a much better game than Kart 64 ever was.
Jun 21, 2022
For its time, this game is insanely good in almost every aspect. I love it. It's one of my favorite games ever, to the point that I recently picked up an N64 for the first time in almost two decades just so I could shell out even more money on a copy of this game - and just this game for the time being. It holds up. It shows its age, of course, it's over 20 years old. But all things considered, this holds up surprisingly well. For my entire life, I have stood beside my opinion that Diddy Kong Racing is superior to Mario Kart 64 in almost every way, and I still believe this. This game has to come back. Not a shoddy port, but a full-blown legitimate remake. This is all I want from Nintendo, and it's all I've wanted forever. Pls, Nintendo. Bring this game back.
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Nintendo 64 Sep 24, 2021
The best kartraecer ever. Fun to have plane car and hovercraft. Maybe a little bit difficult to set up a multiplayer race but still a sure 10.
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Nintendo 64 Jun 26, 2025
Good story and good characters. TO be a banjo debut its fine but come on Donkey Kong should be playable ot at least a cameo
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Nintendo 64 Jun 1, 2018
This game had its moments. It wasn't as good as Mario Kart, but at least it tried. I did enjoy the different vehicles; the cart, the airplane, and the boat. I also liked the central hub of the game, this is something that Mario Kart should adopt!
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Nintendo 64 May 4, 2018
This game was so hard honestly, I am not trying to say that it is impossible but even to this day I can not beat this game. I know that I am not that good at racing games and I often find that I struggle with even some of the easy ones but this one was insane. I tried for so long to beat this game but I just never could. I'm sure there are people that think the game is easy and I respect that but I could just never find it in myself to fully beat the game. I know I will never get the chance again however because this is a game that was developed by rare and the rights are spread all over the place.
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Nintendo 64 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 advent...
Platforms:
- Nintendo 64
Initial Release Date: Nov 24, 1997
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