"Winners don't do Krunch." -Tom Fawkes

Rules of winning Diddy Kong Racing: Step 1: Choose Conker Step 2: Beat the game

When I did my ctr vs dkr vs mk64 video it made me realise just how ahead of it's time diddy Kong racing was, love it.

I remember playing Diddy Kong Racing when i was young and replaying it in 2016. It was and still is a good kart racing game. Though the bosses and the Wizpig segment can be a right pain in the ass.

**sees gravity falls intro** Ah a man of culture, I see

The Adventure 2 and Adventure 2 Battle jokes made me laugh harder than I should have!

A game so good, that 20 years later people are still talking about its finer details. Really a hallmark of the kart racer genre and something worth remembering. Keep up the good work, and have a nice day.

My favorite kart racer ever! I just find it so odd that practically no one else aside from Naughty Dog with CTR attempted the racing adventure formula. Here's hoping we get a sequel on the switch one day. On another note, I'll never forgive my brother for selling it for clubbing money 😂

Imagine the joy of finally being able to potentially experience Diddy Kong Racing again this time with online multiplayer only for Nintendo to tell you to pay $50 a year to do so

Diddy Kong Racing technically got a spiritual sequel called Mickey's Speedway USA. It's not as fun to play, but still holds up better than Mario Kart 64.

Definitely give this game major credit for influencing CTR.

That opening was pure awesome! Also, as as happy coincidence, this is the time of year I usually rewatch that show, mostly so I can get to "Summerween" by the third week of this month.😁

I was having a really bad day but all the jokes on this video for a game I never played made me feel a ton better. Thanks Ben

Diddy Kong Racing was a magnificent game and probably one of my top 5 most played N64 games

Now that you covered DKR, i think Mickey's Speedway USA might be next in line. It even uses the same engine as DKR.

Man, seeing the charm in this game kinda makes me wish I grew up having an N64.

I vaguely remember playing this game in a dentist’s waiting room when I was much younger. Naturally, I wasn’t very good at it. But there was also a Ratchet & Clank game and a SEGA crossover tennis game, both of which I was surprisingly a little bit better at. Though admittedly, the former was with some help from my older sister.

The nostalgia I felt watching this. To this day whenever Rare comes up in conversations, especially the N64 era. I mention how much I loved this game against my family. Missiles weren't a downgrade for me, I loved swiftly punishing a specific cousin the instant he passed me. Every. Time.(At least try) Yet what does still drive me up a wall is when others assume I only liked Conker thanks to a later title. I was easily made hyper as a kid and such characters drew me in easily, at least high energy. That and looking back it seems I liked balanced racers the most in the kart games I played.

This game is absolutely incredible and would be a contender for my favorite kart racing game of all time if it weren't for the fact that it loses a bit of replay value upon being mastered. I recently competed with a friend of mine to race through the adventure mode and in-practicing for that race, I ended up mastering the mechanics and sadly don't have much reason to replay it unless I were to get into speedrunning (which I very well might). Great review! Always happy to see this game get the love it deserves

I’m upset I didn’t find out about you sooner! This is my first viewing of you and I have to say…DAMN GOOD CONTENT

This is by far my favorite game of all time. I really hope this get a remake on the switch, although it is highly unlikely.

One of the best kart racing games ever made, alongside Crash Team Racing and Speed Freaks.

I loved Diddy Kong Racing growing up. I remember doing the co-op adventure mode with my siblings & even use the in-game cheat modes to add stuff like co-op, making the characters big & small & plenty more. One of my favourite N64 games.

7:03 I felt this so hard 😂 This game is honestly so incredible, your video really does it justice!

Fantastic video. Diddy Kong Racing is still one of the best kart racers ever. I'm still impressed by how imaginative the track designs are.

Oh god this actually brings up a hilarious memory of mine. About 19 years ago, back when Giant Eagle stores had the Eagle’s Nest (basically a small daycare for grown-ups to leave their kids while they do their shopping) I remember watching a kid playing Diddy Kong Racing and as it so happens he was racing WizPig. There was a broken tv screen soon after…

I got Diddy Kong Racing when it was only a few months old; I was 10 and finished it at 11 (100 percenting the game took a long time, T.T. times were hard as hell for me). I remember the game pretty vividly for being so long ago, and the Frosty Village song made me smile from the nostalgia. Wizpig 1 was absolutely insane. About as difficult as you can be without simply being impossible. I was stuck on him for months and my number of attempts probably reached the triple digits. I wasn't even excited when I finally beat him, I was dumbstruck. The reward was well worth it, though - I loved the "false ending" thing Rare was fond of during the N64 days like with Banjo-Kazooie. T.T. was that good? Huh. I remember being completely disappointed with him since I found him so difficult to control; Pipsy and Tiptup were the only characters I ever used due to their tight controls. Since I was a dumb little 11 year old, though, I was probably wrong. I'm still disappointed Donkey Kong Racing was never released. E3 2001 was the first one I ever followed and I thought the game looked cool.

To quote one TomFawkes: *WINNERS DON'T USE KRUNCH!!!*

Now this is my childhood game and my absolute favorite game on the N64! I remember so many fond memories of discovering all the little secrets as a kid using my man Tiptup. I never managed to beat first Wizpig as a kid since I never figured out the secret boost technique, but that never hampered my enjoyment of the game. If this somehow makes it onto the N64 NSO Online, then my cchildhood will be complete and I'll be happy! (Also if Nintendo lowers the price as $50 a year is way too steep.)

My siblings and I played DKR so much we wore out the battery on cartridge. I believe this was game we got on our N64 along with Mario Kart 64. I have so many fond memories of it, and going back to play it would be amazing. It holds up extremely well to age, much like Banjo-Kazooie does, and I would love to see it get a proper sequel. Seeing someone else with the same opinions and memories as I did brings a good smile to my face :D

I only ever played the DS version of this game, and I quite enjoyed it. Granted, in retrospect some of its gimmicks weren't that great, but it was still a good time.

Best kart racer ever.. Still play it from time to time and listen to the incredible soundtrack for nostalgia purposes. 😍

i find myself coming back to this video every time it shows up in my youtube home screen.

Funny how Conker would go from kid-friendly character to the foul-mouthed, perverted, drunk lead protagonist of one the most beloved M-rated titles on the N64.

Diddy Kong Racing's soundtrack passes what I like to call the 'Immaculate Vibe Test.' Where you can put it's music over *Anything* and it would fit. ESPECIALLY Pirate Lagoon

The kart racing genre is my favorite. I love pac-man world rally, mario kart wii, mysims racing, sonic & sega all-stars racing transformed, crash team racing nitro fueled, and nickelodeon kart racers 2. It would be cool if nintendo and rare did come together to give us all a remake of diddy kong racing. I didn't play it as a kid since I didn't know it existed till I got older.

As a kid in the early 2000s, I didn't know about the speed boost trick of not holding the A button when touching it so I had to relay on Wizpig kicking my player in order to beat him. After 100s of failed attempts, managed to beat him. As a grown adult I'd love to see if it as difficult as I remember.

Such a good game back in the day. I remember 100%'ing the game and then doing the same in mirror mode which was 10x more difficult. Freaking Windmill Plains was the worst.

One of my favorite kart games, at the time i already played Mario Kart and CTR and loved both, but even then this game still suprised my with the vehicles, ost and replayability, i remember playing the battle games a lot with friends, good times. Nice summary of the game.

22:03 So THAT'S where that song comes from! I was wondering about that.

How to beat bubbler easily. Get 3 rocket powerups. Go to town on him. only stopping once you're down to 1 rocket, then get another rocket to restock and repeat.

Damn, I can't believe that I died at BOTH times you did the Adventure Two thing lol

The game is a classic along with the soundtrack.

Joyous game, everything about it is amazing, one of my fave games ever and definitely my fave kart racer.

Wizpig: You can't beat me! Pigma from Starfox: I got a better ship! That was a joke from cjszero01's playthrough of Diddy Kong Racing.

This was a great video. I loved the way you explained everything. This is still my favorite racing game ever made so far

Great video, subscribed! One of my favorite games of all time!

The idea that the tiger wrote Diddy a letter is cute. I always thought it would be cool to expand on the 64 games world and make them exist in Same universe. For example I always felt banjo tooie and DK64 feel like same universe anyways. So a universe with DK and their whole world + banjo Kazooie &world + conker+ mario and yoshi + timber + crash and you have an awesome universe with plenty of cool heros,villains and ideas to use for a story.. could also do infinite number of team ups

22:43:.....WHAT!? THAT WAS A THING!? HOW IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO PLAY THAT!?

6:43 I’m not gonna lie this completely me laugh and chuckle a bit with this silly blooper ^^

2 things: 1. I had never known that tt was playable! 2. Its funny to find someone praising the dino egg challenge. My family never played it XD

I know that a lot of people like to compare Diddy Kong Racing to Mario Kart 64, but if you really think about it Crash Team Racing has way more in common with Diddy Kong Racing then Mario Kart 64. Think about it both Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing have a story involving some alien. (Wizpig and Nitros Oxcide) - Both have a hub world. - Both have boss battles that involve racing including the final boss. - Both have lots of collectables. - Both having you need to collect something in order to reach the final boss. - Both got remakes. (Though calling Diddy Kong Racing DS a remake is a whee bit of a stretch.)

I somewhat recently finally played through all of adventure mode for the first time, and I actually found the second Wizpig race much harder than the first. I didn't think the first one was very hard at all, it only took me a few attempts, while the second took quite some time. The car is the easiest vehicle to handle, and all that race demands of you is to hit all the boosts, it's really not a hard track, so it doesn't take much time to get a good feel for it. While the second race, there a lot more to consider with the plane, elevation is now a factor, there's more room for error, especially since you'll actually have obstacles to avoid. Sure you can get powerups, but I think the first race not having them made it easier just because it made it simple. Just hit all the boosts and you're good.

Holy moly, I just realized that the alligator guy is the design of the kritters from DK64! Either that was a coincidence or Rare was thinking farther ahead than we thought.

I love diddy kong racing, and your video is great, i'm subscribing right now, can't wait to see the other videos that you made talking about other games.

BRUH glad you got around to this

Favorite n64 game

That joke at 0:00 is jus- *_CHEIFS KISS INTENSIFIES_*

That intro is so fitting.

This was easily one of my favorite games growing up. I liked it more than MK64, but that's in part because I played games by myself more often and DKR has a more robust single-player game (I would say MK64 is better as a multiplayer game). And yes, the soundtrack is still one of my favorites. Also, the remake absolutely sucks.

Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racer & Crash Team Racing were just the 3 bastions of my childhood kart racers. Despite never being alive when these games came out, I was fortunate enough that my dad still had his Nintendo 64 & PlayStation and I will always be thankful for that. All 3 of those games gave me such fond memories!

Fun Fact: Tricky the Triceratops is from Star Fox.

I remember having trouble on the torch minigame in the DS version mostly from my original DS having a busted mic. Didn't finish it until I got the DSi.

I have never even played this game but I love your videos and I don’t regret watching keep up the hard work

I think I read somewhere once that another reason Diddy Kong Racing sold so fast was because of a free toy that came with a purchase of the game before the first month of release was over. I could be wrong, I read that back when the DS version came out after all.

This is another N64 game I want to play (being a racing game fan), but never got to growing up because I was strictly a PlayStation kid. It doesn't hurt that I'm also a DKC fan. Great video. :)

been watching a LOT OF UR VIDS IN THE BACKGROUND CAUSE IM WORKING ON a kart racer of my own rn in unity keep up the good work :-)

Great video really enjoyed it!

So this game was almost a prototype for ctr. It brought I. The rough ideas that ctr would master

After unlocking Future funland it always got to me that it didn't have a multi player battle or challenge stage because when you looked at the level select screen it looked like there was something there and I totally spent months looking for the key to unlock it!! : D I wish they would make another one as it was ever so fun to play in adventure or together with friends! ^-^

Thanks for the memories ☺️

Diddy Kong Racing to me is one of the best Racers because of how they do things. Adventure Mode, the tier system for items, the only other game that does Diddy Kong Racing better especially with the vehicles? Is Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed. Literally just does the vehicle swap on the Fly.

I had no clue that pirate lagoon was one of those songs people use in meme videos and I thought it was hilarious

Ah yes the humble beginning of a certain bear who later teamed up with a Breegul to save his sister from am5 evil witch had many years, hibernated until there grand return for Super Smash Bros Ultimates, and Conker...well the least say the better unless you want to get the alternative universeceere Conker did return On form *hint hint* while Banjo and Kazooie didn't from a certain "remix"!

Honestly, Unless you could truly dedicate a full video for it, You could put DKR DS in a video about bad remakes/remakes you really don't like, I think that would be a great vid coming from you

Darkmoon caverns is my fav track/song in the game❤

Thank the Elder Gods I beaten Wispig in Diddy Kong Racing 🏁 granted that was on the 2DS but still I Triumph

oh boy not Conker the most controversial N64 Game

diddy kong racing is so good i still have my n64 copy and i liked playing the ds version whenever i went somewhere

Honestly story with games like these. Interesting

Games nowadays are missing unique and creative game mechanics. They follow the same safe choices. There's a lot of cool mechanics that have been in games that have not been reutilized.

I mean even Peach's Castle is sectioned off by the lobby, basement, and upstairs by beating each Bowser fight, which you enter by getting a certain amount of stars per Bowser stage

If diddy kong wasn't in this game, it could've been on the xbox

Dude this is provost the funnest video you made the jokes are the best

I feel you man my first game was a cart racer in the form of Mario Kart Wii.

Love that intro

awesome vid.

I will keep saying this until the end of time, I love Diddy Kong Racing and consider it my all-time favourite game. Also I somehow never knew about that shortcut in Frosty Village until now Also also, I would disagree about Wizpig being the hardest part. Wizpig is very hard, but by that point I already knew about the trick and was able to beat him after a few attempts. Bubbler 2 and Smokey 2 however..........

I was sure Conker appeared on SNES before but no, the internet agrees with you.

Every person says the Wizpig 1 fight is harder. That may be true in the original (idk never played), but in DS Wizpig 2 has those lasers that always hit you after you pass the giant head.

Nice vid. But I felt like Wizpig 2, was way harder for me, lol. Maybe I'm just bad on the plane.

MAn I remember Diddy Kong Racing. It was one of the first games I got on the N64, and is still one of my favorite racing games to this day. The DS remake was ok but not as good as the original. I hope this game gets ported to the virtual consoles someday because I'd love to play it again.

DKR is the best N64 racing game ever made.

10:21 best funnest part I wish I had ctr

If you think Kitty Kong Racing is a funny mispronunciation autocorrect turned Donkey Kong Country into Donkey Long country

I was only able to beat the pig once & that's it

"Even though the DS version has gimmicks, I still like it A LOT." (If you know this reference , you have good taste. 👌)

I like Diddy Kong Racing

Good video! Shame you didn't address how to unlock Drumstick though, despite showing him in your footage...I always thought was a very odd secret.

Mario Kart needs an adventure mode.