I'm surprised you didn't mention what I think is one of this game's biggest strengths, being how vibrant and expressive everything is. Characters stacking and juggling triple items, flailing around when falling or getting launched through a cannon, and getting dragged after being flung into the air are just some of the things the characters do. That's not even mentioning things like signboards bouncing around to the music, which itself is some of the best in the series. It's just one more thing that makes this one of my favorite games ever.
Very true, Double Dash is filled with more charm and character than any other entry! I feel like that rings true for a lot of Nintendo games from the GameCube era hahaha
This is still my favourite Mario Kart game ever. Everything it did was perfect. I've got a purple GameCube controller tattooed on my arm because of this game. My whole family would team up on it and we unlocked everything over the course of a few months.
@@Fobbive never played it, but im gonna buy a gamecube and double dash. With this, super circuit would be the only one i havent played (and thats not changing)
Double Dash was my very first game, been playing it since I was a small kid, to this day, not only is it my favorite Mario kart, it's my favorite game ever. I still play it on a regular basis
@UnravelingofLathine my mom never played games with me but me & my older Brother played when I was little, mostly we played seperate but every now and then I could convince him of coop and I was always the one in the back, always Peach or Daisy while he went DK, although we would drive in Wario's car... anyways, I always loved it cuz then I could punch people or punch whenever & make us veer off the road lol, it's a lot of good memories with this game, it's nice to hear others have just as happy memories with this game, I imagine you had a blast with your parents!
Double Dash is the first Mario Kart I played back in 2008. When I unlocked the Special Cup and played Rainbow Road for the first time... my jaw was on the floor once you launch into the tube and the music shifts dramatically (perhaps this was intentional?). Combine this with how "happy" the game is with faces on seemingly everything that gives it character, incredibly unbalanced yet gratifying items, premium track selection, onerous but rewarding controls, interconnectivity between various tracks, and AI that I firmly believe is the best in the entire series... there is only one word to accurately describe this game. Excellence.
Good video! When I was a kid and picked up Double Dash!!, I initially didn't like it as the controls felt loose and I was skeptical about the change to two players per kart. However, as I played it more and more, I actually fell in love with how unique it was! I still love this game as it feels like the most chaotic of the series! Some special items are clearly broken, but I appreciate Nintendo experimenting a bit with the traditional formula. I really hope Nintendo revisits the idea of two players to a kart (even as a separate mode) as it really was fun to play with a friend. I wouldn't mind them even adding special items back as an option. The pure chaos just really made this incredibly fun! My gamer friends and I still go back to this game now and again as it still holds up as a fun time!
Thanks for watching, I appreciate that! Double Dash's controls are definitely slippier than the other games and that takes some getting used to, but it really does add to how hectic the game already feels with the tight track layouts and special items!
In like 2019 my mom sold my mkdd in her garage sale and it broke my damn heart I LOVE this game so much and I’m still trying to get another copy of it 💀 my main was always Daisy and King Boo with the Silver Warp Pipe kart, such a vibe ✨
Here in China we have an app called Taobao, people in Singapore use it too, and once me and my friend found an elephant for sale and the description was: “ it will swim to you.” Funniest shit ever, You can also get like old Mario games on it, that’s how I got smb3 NES. Pretty sure there’s double dash, one day I’m going to get an emulator and I’m going to play double dash
It has the best artstyle and best music style too. And it's got a lovely sense of flash and vibrancy to it. The only thing I miss when I play it now is not being able to trick like in newer games though. That's a mechanic I think drastically improves a lot.
I always used Yoshi and Diddy Kong but if I was playing with my friend who mained Diddy Kong I would use Bowser Junior instead. The giant banana and Bowser shell were two of the most fun items in the game but I had to atleast have Yoshi on the team since he has been my main for each game.
Dude that was my team too. Yoshi and Diddy can be an unstoppable duo. With Yoshi on the team it makes it possible to get a Star in first place with his egg special. Diddy’s special is good for maintaining a lead. A small skill ceiling but worth it if you’re good. I think the Bullet Bill was my vehicle of choice.
My siblings and I spend hours on this jewel of a game. We had to take turns since it’s 8 of us to play it. The countless hours of laughter, make me miss them more now that we’re adults and don’t live together anymore. But when I go to visit the state that they live, we still get together and fight and laugh playing this game. It’s a mandatory thing to do for us when we visit. I will love for Nintendo to give this game an online option on the switch, so I can play with them from afar.
I love mario kart double dash i do got that game for the Nintendo gamecube this game is legendary playing 2 players and have double items i like some of the tracks in this game
My favorite Mario Kart game by far! DK Mountain is also my favorite! Criminal that we haven’t seen anything remotely related to this game be revisited for the modern titles. Maybe one day…
Subscribing! Double Dash is the only Mario Kart game I actually HAVEN'T played. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the game. If I can ever get my hands on a Game Cube, it'll be the first game I play.
FYI you don’t HAVE to switch seats to use the drivers item. The driver can PASS their item back to the caboose character if said character doesn’t have an item.
Justice for double dash! My first MK and still my favorit.❤ the wiggly physics, the tracks, the music, the special items, that you lose triple items when hitting something / stealing Items in 2-player mode. It is Mario kart in its most chaotic form😂
Double dash had a very fun gimmick which I'm somewhat surprised hasn't returned in any form. Would be cool if we got stuff like this maybe as different game modes or in some other format. 10/10 video, monke would recommend 🐵 #freeparatroopa
This may be my least favorite Mario Kart game, but it only goes to show how much I love the other entries and really the Mario Kart franchise as a whole. And I will admit Double Dash is by far the most unique one, and I still for the most part enjoy it for what it is
Boy, I really wish we didn't sell our copy...We still have Kirby's Air Ride and Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, but this is one I wish my siblings and I could go back to now. It's always disappointed me that, after this entry, characters don't carry a massive, teetering stack of Bob-ombs in Bob-omb blast. Not only is it fun, it's an intuitive visual indicator in clear view how many bombs you and others have. Such great design!
Aw man - at the very least, Double Dash should be easier to replace than those other two. Here in the UK, both Kirby Air Ride and Gale of Darkness are crazy expensive!
The only thing I really hate about Mario Kart Double Dash is the fact that Toad is unlockable! But almost everything else about MKDD is fun enough to replay every now & then.
Toad being unlockable was definitely an odd choice, considering that he's in the starting roster of pretty much every other entry. Might've had something to do with Toadette being a brand new character!
The outro is a cover of I Want You Back - The Jackson Five in the Banjo-Kazooie soundfont! I found a generic midi for the song and then replaced all of the instruments with Banjo-Kazooie ones.
Best MK and best game of all time, this freaking chaotic aspect just makes my days since the day one that i'm playing this masterpiece. This game doesn't even need online to be enjoyed even after a whole decade. Every other MKs being played in solo are so boring... MKDD is beautiful, offers the best roster ever imo (with MKWii), awesome tracks, special items, epic and chaotic races. Everything in the gameplay is so perfect and unique 🏆
This was my first mario kart. I couldnt afford mk64 but my brother got double dash for christmas and passed it to me after a couple years (the PS2 was out and he didnt care for his gamecube much anymore) I'll never forget the hours I sank into this game, i didn't even unock everyone as a kid 😂 I got closer to 100% in smash melee than i did in double dash, maybe ill go back to it one day.
Coming back to this game, I found Petey and King Boo difficult to unlock even now, so I can see why it would be difficult as a kid! Definitely worth coming back to hahaha
Full agree with the video. I bought the Wii Mario Kart and it wasn’t the same for me. Granted I don’t think the MK games are bad by any means I just love the team mechanic in DD. So I fell off after the Wii one.
I ront care how slow some of the shortcuts would make you. I use each one every single time. Love this game so much and wish I could still play it on ny Wii (still own it, my Wii just doesnt play GC games anymore 😢).
@Fobb I honestly have no idea. Last I researched on it, it said that randomly half of all Wiis just stopped running GameCube games. Like I still own a bunch of them and when I put it into the Wii, it doesn't progress past the GameCube start screen. Once you press the button on Wii, the game just stays on a black screen for me.
LMAO U GUYS SUCK I PULL OFF THE DK MOUNTING GAP JUMP PERFECTLY EVERYTIME AND THATS WHY ITS MY FAV TRACK OAT, ok but really doubledash is my second fav, its my childhood and i still play it to this day, i love it SOO much, and it could be interchangable with 8deluxe, also i kained koopa troopa and toadette with blue deadult kart
I'm surprised you didn't mention what I think is one of this game's biggest strengths, being how vibrant and expressive everything is. Characters stacking and juggling triple items, flailing around when falling or getting launched through a cannon, and getting dragged after being flung into the air are just some of the things the characters do. That's not even mentioning things like signboards bouncing around to the music, which itself is some of the best in the series. It's just one more thing that makes this one of my favorite games ever.
Very true, Double Dash is filled with more charm and character than any other entry! I feel like that rings true for a lot of Nintendo games from the GameCube era hahaha
This is still my favourite Mario Kart game ever. Everything it did was perfect. I've got a purple GameCube controller tattooed on my arm because of this game. My whole family would team up on it and we unlocked everything over the course of a few months.
Hah, that's awesome! Double Dash was such a fun game to play as a group!
@@Fobbive never played it, but im gonna buy a gamecube and double dash. With this, super circuit would be the only one i havent played (and thats not changing)
Double Dash was my very first game, been playing it since I was a small kid, to this day, not only is it my favorite Mario kart, it's my favorite game ever. I still play it on a regular basis
A worthy favourite for sure!
That’s such a good story for such a good game, I love to hear it. Definitely the game my parents played most with me as a kid. 🥳
@UnravelingofLathine my mom never played games with me but me & my older Brother played when I was little, mostly we played seperate but every now and then I could convince him of coop and I was always the one in the back, always Peach or Daisy while he went DK, although we would drive in Wario's car... anyways, I always loved it cuz then I could punch people or punch whenever & make us veer off the road lol, it's a lot of good memories with this game, it's nice to hear others have just as happy memories with this game, I imagine you had a blast with your parents!
Double Dash is the first Mario Kart I played back in 2008. When I unlocked the Special Cup and played Rainbow Road for the first time... my jaw was on the floor once you launch into the tube and the music shifts dramatically (perhaps this was intentional?). Combine this with how "happy" the game is with faces on seemingly everything that gives it character, incredibly unbalanced yet gratifying items, premium track selection, onerous but rewarding controls, interconnectivity between various tracks, and AI that I firmly believe is the best in the entire series... there is only one word to accurately describe this game. Excellence.
Good video! When I was a kid and picked up Double Dash!!, I initially didn't like it as the controls felt loose and I was skeptical about the change to two players per kart. However, as I played it more and more, I actually fell in love with how unique it was! I still love this game as it feels like the most chaotic of the series!
Some special items are clearly broken, but I appreciate Nintendo experimenting a bit with the traditional formula. I really hope Nintendo revisits the idea of two players to a kart (even as a separate mode) as it really was fun to play with a friend. I wouldn't mind them even adding special items back as an option. The pure chaos just really made this incredibly fun! My gamer friends and I still go back to this game now and again as it still holds up as a fun time!
Thanks for watching, I appreciate that! Double Dash's controls are definitely slippier than the other games and that takes some getting used to, but it really does add to how hectic the game already feels with the tight track layouts and special items!
In like 2019 my mom sold my mkdd in her garage sale and it broke my damn heart I LOVE this game so much and I’m still trying to get another copy of it 💀 my main was always Daisy and King Boo with the Silver Warp Pipe kart, such a vibe ✨
Daisy and King Boo is a fire character combination
You need to get ahold of another copy someday haha!
Here in China we have an app called Taobao, people in Singapore use it too, and once me and my friend found an elephant for sale and the description was: “ it will swim to you.” Funniest shit ever, You can also get like old Mario games on it, that’s how I got smb3 NES. Pretty sure there’s double dash, one day I’m going to get an emulator and I’m going to play double dash
I still say that Double Dash by its own merits is the most dominant the series has to offer.
Absolutely! 💯
rip paratroopa
Poor guy 😔
It has the best artstyle and best music style too. And it's got a lovely sense of flash and vibrancy to it.
The only thing I miss when I play it now is not being able to trick like in newer games though. That's a mechanic I think drastically improves a lot.
Tricking adds a lot to the gameplay, so it always feels like a bit of adjustment going back to the older Mario Karts that don't have it!
I always used Yoshi and Diddy Kong but if I was playing with my friend who mained Diddy Kong I would use Bowser Junior instead. The giant banana and Bowser shell were two of the most fun items in the game but I had to atleast have Yoshi on the team since he has been my main for each game.
Character loyalty is real! The giant Bowser Shells were amazing haha, so much chaos!
Dude that was my team too. Yoshi and Diddy can be an unstoppable duo. With Yoshi on the team it makes it possible to get a Star in first place with his egg special. Diddy’s special is good for maintaining a lead. A small skill ceiling but worth it if you’re good. I think the Bullet Bill was my vehicle of choice.
11:38 when you want to sing but are scared of waking someone up
I guess this is how the story goes
@@Fobb I'm in the thick of it an everybody knows
@Rotten_Water_ they know me where it snows
While Super Mario Kart was my first, Double Dash was my childhood. I adore this game and I know it like the back of my hand.
My siblings and I spend hours on this jewel of a game. We had to take turns since it’s 8 of us to play it. The countless hours of laughter, make me miss them more now that we’re adults and don’t live together anymore. But when I go to visit the state that they live, we still get together and fight and laugh playing this game. It’s a mandatory thing to do for us when we visit. I will love for Nintendo to give this game an online option on the switch, so I can play with them from afar.
That's a great tradition to have hahaha
I think you can play online using Dolphin and Netplay, but it would be nice to have an official way to do it!
This is great! I’m subbing!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that!
I love mario kart double dash i do got that game for the Nintendo gamecube this game is legendary playing 2 players and have double items i like some of the tracks in this game
For sure, it's such a cool game!
Double dash, was the first one, I completed 100%. All karts all characters, everything. Was a nice challenge.
Definitely takes a good amount of effort to unlock everything!
My favorite Mario Kart game by far! DK Mountain is also my favorite! Criminal that we haven’t seen anything remotely related to this game be revisited for the modern titles. Maybe one day…
DK Mountain is such a timeless track! Fingers crossed we'll see a Double Dash mode or something similar in a future Mario Kart 🤞
11:43 I WAS ALREADY SINGING THAT IN MY HEAD 😂
It's such a classic video hahahaha
Subscribing! Double Dash is the only Mario Kart game I actually HAVEN'T played. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the game. If I can ever get my hands on a Game Cube, it'll be the first game I play.
FYI you don’t HAVE to switch seats to use the drivers item. The driver can PASS their item back to the caboose character if said character doesn’t have an item.
My favorite Mario Kart.
They seriously need to add a Double Dash!! mode in 9. That's one way the next game can be a cut above 8 Deluxe.
That would be awesome, it's such a fun, hectic mechanic!
I’ll always appreciate games that put so much personality into every little detail and character. This is why i love mario strikers charged so much.
Strikers Charged is awesome! Love how much personality and attitude they gave the characters!
Justice for double dash! My first MK and still my favorit.❤ the wiggly physics, the tracks, the music, the special items, that you lose triple items when hitting something / stealing Items in 2-player mode. It is Mario kart in its most chaotic form😂
Chaotic Mario Kart is best Mario Kart!
Ayyy, been a while since I've seen you! I see you still refuse to let up on pun-related edits/transitions.😜
Hahaha some things never change!
1:38 my go to is the same 🍻
The best characters 😎
I love that DK and Diddy got their awesome 64 Sound effects! nice that there is somebody out there admiring this as well. i love Double Dash!
It's kinda surreal hearing those sound effects outside of DK64, but I really dig it!
Watching this game as background filler really makes you realise how goofy this game is. I love it lol
Hahaha it's wonderfully chaotic!
Double dash had a very fun gimmick which I'm somewhat surprised hasn't returned in any form. Would be cool if we got stuff like this maybe as different game modes or in some other format.
10/10 video, monke would recommend 🐵
#freeparatroopa
I'd love to see it get added as a mode in a future Mario Kart game!
#freeparatroopa fr 🐵🐢
This may be my least favorite Mario Kart game, but it only goes to show how much I love the other entries and really the Mario Kart franchise as a whole. And I will admit Double Dash is by far the most unique one, and I still for the most part enjoy it for what it is
That's fair, Mario Kart is such a consistently great series!
My best memories with my family, defenely with this Mario Kart ☺️
Boy, I really wish we didn't sell our copy...We still have Kirby's Air Ride and Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, but this is one I wish my siblings and I could go back to now.
It's always disappointed me that, after this entry, characters don't carry a massive, teetering stack of Bob-ombs in Bob-omb blast. Not only is it fun, it's an intuitive visual indicator in clear view how many bombs you and others have. Such great design!
Aw man - at the very least, Double Dash should be easier to replace than those other two. Here in the UK, both Kirby Air Ride and Gale of Darkness are crazy expensive!
I still love this game. By far my favorite game in the series!
The only thing I really hate about Mario Kart Double Dash is the fact that Toad is unlockable! But almost everything else about MKDD is fun enough to replay every now & then.
Toad being unlockable was definitely an odd choice, considering that he's in the starting roster of pretty much every other entry. Might've had something to do with Toadette being a brand new character!
@Fobb true that.
Most underrated mariokart game
Definitely!
Great End Song haha
Hahaha thank you - I've always been partial to both I Want You Back and the Banjo-Kazooie OST!
@@Fobb great combination! Love the jacksons
WHERE DID YOU FIND THE OUTRO MUSIC
The outro is a cover of I Want You Back - The Jackson Five in the Banjo-Kazooie soundfont! I found a generic midi for the song and then replaced all of the instruments with Banjo-Kazooie ones.
As a big wings and the color red enjoyer, I really miss Paratroopa
He needs to come back one day fr
@ fr 😭
Best MK and best game of all time, this freaking chaotic aspect just makes my days since the day one that i'm playing this masterpiece. This game doesn't even need online to be enjoyed even after a whole decade. Every other MKs being played in solo are so boring... MKDD is beautiful, offers the best roster ever imo (with MKWii), awesome tracks, special items, epic and chaotic races. Everything in the gameplay is so perfect and unique 🏆
It really stands out from the rest of the series with its charm and uniquely chaotic gameplay!
A lot of the Mario gamecube games work because of how simple they are. Less complexity, more fun gameplay.
Between this and the sports spin-offs, there's a lot of fun to be had!
I hope they make a DD 2 and just add more characters and unique items for them
Bowser and Donkey Kong were my mains as a kid
Very powerful combination! 💪
@Fobb My younger brother used Yoshi and Princess Peach oftenly
This was my first mario kart. I couldnt afford mk64 but my brother got double dash for christmas and passed it to me after a couple years (the PS2 was out and he didnt care for his gamecube much anymore)
I'll never forget the hours I sank into this game, i didn't even unock everyone as a kid 😂
I got closer to 100% in smash melee than i did in double dash, maybe ill go back to it one day.
Coming back to this game, I found Petey and King Boo difficult to unlock even now, so I can see why it would be difficult as a kid! Definitely worth coming back to hahaha
Full agree with the video. I bought the Wii Mario Kart and it wasn’t the same for me. Granted I don’t think the MK games are bad by any means I just love the team mechanic in DD. So I fell off after the Wii one.
It's a real shame the team mechanic hasn't been brought back since this game!
@ A real shame indeed 😓
the only gripe i have with double dash is not enough courses. Everything else is so much more fun to me than mkwii and mk8
Woulda been awesome if they included some of the courses from N64 as retro tracks!
My favorite Mario Kart game.
A worthy choice!
0:22 cmon nowwww😂😭😂😭😂
I had to 😭😭😭
@@FobbRespect respect😂❤️
#FREEPARATROOPA
Bring the boy back 🙏
I wish nintendo would release game cube on NSO like come on my dad sold our game cube years ago 😢
One day 🙏
I ront care how slow some of the shortcuts would make you. I use each one every single time. Love this game so much and wish I could still play it on ny Wii (still own it, my Wii just doesnt play GC games anymore 😢).
Awww that's a shame. Is it one of the newer models or did it just stop reading them one day?
@Fobb I honestly have no idea. Last I researched on it, it said that randomly half of all Wiis just stopped running GameCube games. Like I still own a bunch of them and when I put it into the Wii, it doesn't progress past the GameCube start screen. Once you press the button on Wii, the game just stays on a black screen for me.
"the best mario kart"
almost as if I was right all along
bro is just a mario kart h8r
Hmmmmm... while I can't say I agree with your MK8D opinions, at least we can agree that Double Dash is 🐐ed
DO MORE PUNCH OUT VIDEOS
you forgot to mention the best track in the game, mushroom bridge
A solid track for sure, but I feel like Double Dash has stronger offerings!
I’ve always loved DD’s version of Wario stadium. Waluigi stadium’s another good one.
I also quite like the graphics in DD as well. I also quite like the way the water looks.
Dude the game has only 4 cups and the worst rainbow road, wii, 7 and 8 deluxe rule
LMAO U GUYS SUCK I PULL OFF THE DK MOUNTING GAP JUMP PERFECTLY EVERYTIME AND THATS WHY ITS MY FAV TRACK OAT, ok but really doubledash is my second fav, its my childhood and i still play it to this day, i love it SOO much, and it could be interchangable with 8deluxe, also i kained koopa troopa and toadette with blue deadult kart
8 Deluxe and Double Dash are also my top 2! Koopa and Toadette are a neat combo!
Mk wii is the best. DD is my least favourite. Hated the mechanics and tracks.