Diddy Kong Racing
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…
Diddy Kong Racing is a racing developed by Rare, released 21 November 1997 on Nintendo 64.
What Diddy Kong Racing is
Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game developed by Rare and released in 1997. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 64 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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! This unique game blends adventure and racing like no other game! Roam anywhere you want on the island by car plane or hovercraft! An enormous amount of single-player and multi-player modes! Feel the action when you use the N64 Rumble Pak and save your times on the N64 Controller Pak!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series
Diddy Kong Racing is the 58th of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Nintendo Mini Classics: Donkey Kong Junior in 1998. Its critic score of 50 is 25 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Diddy Kong Racing holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points below the year average. Players rate it 65, 15 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Diddy Kong Racing launched on 21 November 1997, within three weeks of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and Time Crisis II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, NFL Blitz, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, Time Crisis II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Diddy Kong Racing yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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