Mario Kart: Double Dash!!(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)

The wacky hijinks of Mario Kart have always appealed to me much more than the teeth-grinding speed and frequent, fiery deaths of Nintendo's other big racing franchise, F-Zero. And this latest version of Kart further cements the reasons why I'd rather be tossing bananas on the Sherbet Land track: Double Dash!! is nonstop, relentless fun, and I can't think of a better (or more accessible) game to play with a group of friends.

Nintendo sometimes errs on the side of caution when it comes to updating classic franchises like this, and I was worried that Double Dash!! would just be a prettier version of Mario Kart 64. It's much more than that …