It was also the first game to include Conker the Squirrel. By natural materials do you mean like twigs and vines and rocks?Īlso I've always thought that Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts should be Bumper Nuts and Bolts. Diddy Kong Racing is a racing game for the Nintendo 64. Especially the part about making contraptions. I like your ideas about a Timber game Qyz. Because isn't the story really all about Timber, and Diddy is just one of the friends Timber asked to come help him? I don't think Diddy is ever mentioned in the story. I always thought that "Diddy Kong" Racing should be called Timber Racing. It has been said on several forums that several screenshots existed but I have never seen them. This supposed title and the fact that Pipsy and Bumper were also to make appearances were the only things we were told about the game. OK, all this "hundreds of years, distant galaxy" stuff could have been made up by the DKU, but Leigh Loveday has at least confirmed that they are the same character.Īnd Qyzbud, believe it or not, but "Timber 64" was a very real game in development for some time until it was cancelled.
The Starfox series takes place in a distant galaxy several hundred years before our current continuity, thus Starfox adventures shows Tricky in his younger days. Yes, Prince Tricky is the same Tricky from DKR. Perhaps a year and a half at the DKU has brainwashed me. I know that both Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Pocket Tales were in production before Diddy Kong Racing, but I still think that there franchises technically spunoff from it.
I know I'm not alone who else wants to be a stopwatch when they grow up? Hopefully that doesn't sound too much like the Nuts & Bolts premise, as it's not intended to be. Perhaps Timber could be an inventor, and have the ability to create (and repair) useful contraptions using simple, natural materials. Timber should be able to climb trees, ride mine carts, unearth cached items by landing from a height.
I never really fleshed out a full plan for how I think Timber's adventure should be, but I want it to have fast-paced gameplay and quick, responsive, fluid controls like the DKCs. Basically, to do what DK64 should have done, but with a different cast of characters, etc. When Rare lost the DK bunch, I decided they ought to have Timber start something of a spiritual successor to the DKCs. I'm not sure if it's meant to be the same Tricky as in DKR, though.Īnyhow, I've always secretly hoped to see Timber in a starring role. The next most prominent appearance might be (Prince) Tricky in Dinosaur Planet the GCN Star Fox games. Drumstick was a beast because he had this whole lore about him being a champion who lost a battle against Wizpig and was subsequently. To the best of my knowledge, Conker's the only DKR racer to have a true spinoff. Technically he (like Diddy) should be considered a pre-existing character. Interesting point about Banjo due to B-K's delays, he made a 'cameo' appearance before his debut adventure was even released.