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Editorials   New Cube Owners, Vol. 15
- By Lander Clinton

Since Nintendo recently sold in one weekend roughly the same number of GameCubes it sold at launch, I thought I'd do a little something for all the new Cube owners out there.

Everyday until I run out of ideas, forget, or am too busy playing a game, I'll update a GameCube game you must own and why you must own it.

Here goes:

Well, now for something that probably sold many of those GameCubes: Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Mario Kart is always fun. Every version has the perfect formula for multiplayer madness (no, it has nothing to do with Formula One racing). The tracks and items keep the races close and ever-changing, so whether you win or lose you and your friends will definitely want to try another go. Got lots of friends? Link up your GameCubes for a LAN party and play with up to 16 people on different televisions. Have no friends but love computers? Download the Warp Pipe program and play MKDD online against other friend-less wonders.

Even though the graphics won't impress you unless the last game you played was Mario Kart 64, you won't care because you'll be concentrating on shaving a few seconds off your race. The graphics aren't ugly at all, but the bright colors of the mushroom kingdom don't offer a lot of room for texture details. Would you really want a life-like Mario game though? Maybe it could look just like the Super Mario Bros. movie, which was a roaring success!

Back to the game, some fans of MK64 might be upset that the hop before the skidding has been removed, but they couldn't release the exact same game twice... So you don't have the hop any more- I guess you'll have to learn how to come in first given these new parameters. Boo Hoo.

By the way, the last three paragraphs ended and the following paragraph will end in sarcasm.

My only complaints with MKDD is that there are only 16 tracks and it offers a limited one player game. 16 tracks is average for a racing game, but MKDD is so much fun you want more. The one player game lets you unlock stuff and practice, but there should have been something along the lines of F-Zero's story mode. Oh! I got one! Bowser kidnaps the princess, so everybody races!

On a side note, the commercials for the new Crash Team Racing say that it's the best cart-racer on PS2 and Xbox, yet it's also on GameCube. So there you have it, GameCube has the best cart-racer, period, and it's Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Go get it!!