Some items, such as shells and bananas, allow the player to hit others to slow them down, while other items, such as the star power-up, render them temporarily invincible to attacks.

Like in the previous installments, players can pick up item boxes to receive a randomly selected item and use it to impede the opposition and gain the advantage. The game screen indicates the current standings in a race, the current speed of the player's kart (as both numbers and coloured bars) and incoming weapons. Two players can ride on a kart instead of one in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!ĭouble Dash is a kart racing video game in which 2 players race in a kart against other 2-player teams in 16 different courses. It also was rereleased as a player’s choice title in Australia and New Zealand.ĭK and Wario racing at Luigi Circuit, the first course of the game. It is the second best-selling GameCube game of all-time, selling around 7 million copies worldwide, behind Super Smash Bros. It was commercially successful, with more than 3.8 million copies sold in the United States, and more than 802,000 copies sold in Japan. Reviewers praised the graphics, new gameplay features, character and item rosters, arcade aesthetic and track design, but elements of the voice acting were poorly received. There are 20 characters to select from in total, each of which with a special item, and with eleven characters being new to the series.ĭouble Dash received positive reviews from critics it attained an aggregated score of 87 out of 100 on Metacritic. Double Dash supports LAN play using the Nintendo GameCube Broadband Adapter, allowing up to 16 players to compete simultaneously. Double Dash is the only game in the Mario Kart series to allow cooperative gameplay so far.

One player drives the kart and the other uses items, hence the game's title. The game introduced a number of new gameplay features, such as supporting co-op gameplay with two riders per kart. Similar to the previous titles, Double Dash challenges Mario series player characters to race against each other on Mario-themed tracks.

It is the first game in the series to use 3D polygon graphics for the racers, as opposed to sprites. This game is the fourth main entry in the Mario Kart series, succeeding Mario Kart: Super Circuit (2001). Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is a 2003 kart racing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube.

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