Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

The Mushroom Kingdom just got a whole lot more hectic as Mario and friends double up for furious kart racing. This time around, each kart holds two racers that can switch places at any time, so choose from a…

85 7 November 2003

Arcade Racing Action Kids

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is an arcade developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 7 November 2003 on Nintendo GameCube. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is an arcade game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 2003. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is a 2003 kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the fourth main entry in the Mario Kart series. Similar to previous titles, Double Dash challenges Mario series player characters to race against each other on 16 Mario-themed tracks. The game introduced a number of gameplay features, such as having two riders per kart.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is the 33rd of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. The next entry was Mario Party 5 in 2003. Its critic score of 85 is 11 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 389 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 10 hrs.

What it launched against

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! launched on 7 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

Cheats and codes

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