Kyle Orland

Nintendo’s Newest Mario Kart: Double Dash Revamps the Old Classic

Nintendo Headquarters, SEATTLE - As I prepared for Nintendo’s first annual College Media Day, I found there was one event I was looking forward to even more than the full tour of Nintendo nostalgia heaven. The event? A few hours of hands-on testing with Nintendo’s Mario Kart: Double Dash (GameCube).

If you’ve played any of the Mario Kart games for Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64 or Game Boy Advance then you’re already familiar with Double Dash’s cartoony, vehicular combat racing style. But Nintendo’s latest update to the series adds much more than the fairly by-the-numbers sequels that came before it.

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It’s a great time to be a gamer. This holiday season will see the release of dozens of first-class video games to fit a wide variety of tastes. These games are sure to have the most realistic graphics, mind-blowing sound effects and entertaining gameplay seen to date in interactive entertainment.

But it’s also a confusing time to be a gamer. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all want you to buy their systems this holiday season, and unless you have a spare $1,000 or so lying around, you can’t afford to buy all three. So the question for many gamers this season becomes one of which system, or systems, to buy?

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