He has the worst acceleration and the worst handling, but has a very high top speed and is the 3rd fastest racer. His clothing style was carried over to several of these enemies in Donkey Kong 64 (released in 1999).
Conker is much more innocent in this game than he is in his later games, Conker's Bad Fur Day and Conker: Live & Reloaded. He has a low acceleration and a high top speed, but his turning is slightly below average. Conker wears a blue vest with a yellow cape, and blue and yellow sneakers.
Banjo's partner, Kazooie is not seen in this game, but she is mentioned in the instruction manual and can also be heard yelling after banjo's vehicle collides with an object.
This is the first appearance of Banjo in any game, before the creation of even the Banjo-Kazooie series (this is due to delays in that game's release date). He has low acceleration and high top speed, and is the second fastest racer that is initially available, although he cannot turn very well.
However, certain levels have restrictions. In Diddy Kong Racing, a player can choose to drive a car, hovercraft, or airplane. For example, Banjo as well as Conker appeared in this game, but would not appear in their own franchise games until Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Pocket Tales were released. Diddy Kong Racing was partially intended to introduce some of Rare's future franchise characters so that gamers would recognize them when they appeared in other titles later on. The game features characters from Rare games, some of which had yet to be released at the time of this game's release. An enhanced remake/sequel of this game for the Nintendo DS titled Diddy Kong Racing DS was released February 6, 2007.Ī karting game like Mario Kart 64, DKR also has a distinctive adventure mode. 800,000 copies were ordered in the two weeks before Christmas 1997, making it the fastest selling video game at the time, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64 developed by Rareware.