My favorite characters to use in Diddy Kong Racing were Bumper the Badger and Tiptup the Turtle.
DKR was a great game, but it was also the N64 game that caused me to get a PSOne, the first non-Nintendo console I ever owned. You see, DKR was that year's big holiday N64 release, and while it was a good game, it wasn't good enough to carry the system through a holiday season. The PSOne had much more promising games, so even though I couldn't afford it at the time (I was a poor college student), I bought a PSOne anyway. One of the smartest purchases I ever made, as I was reviewing PSOne games left and right for a couple of newspapers after that.


