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Banjo-Pilot
''Banjo-Pilot'' is a 2005 kart racing video game for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) and the fourth installment in Rare (company), Rare's ''Banjo-Kazooie'' series. It plays similarly to the ''Mario Kart'' series by Nintendo: the player races one of nine playable characters around kart circuit, tracks, attacking other racers with bullets and collecting power-ups. The game features a number of single-player and multiplayer modes, such as time attack and item hunts. Unlike other kart racing games, characters control airplanes instead of go-karts. Rare and Nintendo announced ''Banjo-Pilot'' at E3 2001 under the title ''Diddy Kong Pilot''. At this point, it was the sequel to Rare's ''Diddy Kong Racing'' (1997), and featured characters from Nintendo's ''Donkey Kong'' and ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' series. However, workplace politics, company politics and Nintendo's concerns about quality delayed ''Diddy Kong Pilot'' past its planned release date in March 2002. After Microsoft acquired Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo-Kazooie
''Banjo-Kazooie'' is a platform game series developed by Rare, a British company. The games feature a male bear named Banjo and his friend, a large female red bird named Kazooie, both of whom are controlled by the player. Banjo originally made his debut as a playable character in 1997 as part of the cast of '' Diddy Kong Racing''. Throughout the various games, they are tasked with thwarting the various evil schemes of a witch named Gruntilda. The first game, '' Banjo-Kazooie'', was released in 1998 to critical acclaim and was followed by three sequels and a spin-off racing game. The franchise debuted on the Nintendo 64 and subsequent entries in the series also appeared on Game Boy Advance and Xbox 360. The three main titles then saw a release on Xbox One as part of '' Rare Replay''. The franchise has been largely dormant since the release of '' Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts'' in 2008. However, Banjo and Kazooie have made occasional appearances in later crossover titles such as S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Kong
is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. It follows the adventures of Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong, a large, powerful gorilla, and other members of the List of Donkey Kong characters#Kongs, Kong family of apes. List of Donkey Kong video games, ''Donkey Kong'' games include the original arcade game trilogy by Nintendo R&D1; the ''Donkey Kong Country'' series by Rare (company), Rare and Retro Studios; and the ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'' series by Nintendo Software Technology. Various studios have developed Spin-off (media), spin-offs in genres such as edutainment, puzzle video game, puzzle, racing game, racing, and Rhythm game, rhythm. The franchise also incorporates animation, printed media, theme parks, and merchandise. Miyamoto designed the original 1981 ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' to repurpose unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of ''Radar Scope'' (1980). It was a major s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo & Kazooie
Banjo & Kazooie are the protagonists of the video game series ''Banjo-Kazooie'', created by the British video game company Rare. They were introduced in the original ''Banjo-Kazooie'' (1998). Banjo is a honeybear who is accompanied by Kazooie, a bird who is often seen seeking shelter in Banjo's backpack and emerging to perform various moves and attacks. The pair's numerous adventures usually pit them against the evil witch Gruntilda. Banjo first made his solo debut as one of the playable characters in '' Diddy Kong Racing'' (1997). Decades after the release of their original game, Banjo and Kazooie gained widespread attention for their playable appearance in Nintendo's '' Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''. Concept and design The game that would become ''Banjo-Kazooie'' began in early development as '' Dream: Land of Giants'', in which players would control a sword-wielding boy named Edson battling pirates. Later in development, Rare decided to heavily rework the premise, and the pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Beanland
Robin Beanland is a British composer of video game music, composing music for numerous Rare titles, such as the ''Killer Instinct'' franchise, ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' (which he also co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Seavor), and many others. Prior to joining Rare, Beanland composed music for TV and films. The only current game that he continues to produce music for is '' Sea of Thieves''. Video game music credits Awards See also * '' DK Jamz''References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diddy Kong Racing
''Diddy Kong Racing'' is a 1997 kart racing game developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The game revolves around Diddy Kong and his friends' attempt to defeat the intergalactic antagonist, a wizard pig named Wizpig, through winning a series of races. The player takes control of any of the featured characters throughout the game. ''Diddy Kong Racing'' features five ''worlds'' with four racetracks each, and the ability to drive a car, hovercraft, or pilot an aeroplane. Development began after the release of '' Killer Instinct 2'' (1996), and was intended to be an adventure game known as ''Wild Cartoon Kingdom'' in its early stages. As time progressed, the focus of development shifted from a Walt Disney World-influenced racing game to a unique title named ''Pro-Am 64'', in which Nintendo had no involvement. Due to the delays of ''Banjo-Kazooie'', Rare felt that they needed a stronger intellectual property to attract a wider audience for a game scheduled to release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rare (company)
Rare Limited is a British video game developer and a studio of Xbox Game Studios based in Twycross, Leicestershire. Rare's games span the platform, first-person shooter, action-adventure, fighting, and racing genres. Its most popular games include the '' Battletoads'', '' Donkey Kong'', and '' Banjo-Kazooie'' series, as well as games like '' GoldenEye 007'' (1997), '' Perfect Dark'' (2000), '' Conker's Bad Fur Day'' (2001), '' Viva Piñata'' (2006), and '' Sea of Thieves'' (2018). Tim and Chris Stamper, who also founded Ultimate Play the Game, established Rare in 1985. During its early years, Rare was backed by a generous budget from Nintendo, primarily concentrated on Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games. During this time, Rare created successful games such as '' Wizards & Warriors'' (1987), '' R.C. Pro-Am'' (1988), and '' Battletoads'' (1991). Rare became a prominent second-party developer for Nintendo, which came to own a large minority stake in the company, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. ''World of Warcraft'', '' Call of Duty'', ''DayZ''). Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity. Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games. The history of multiplayer video games extends over several decades, tracing back to the emergence of electronic gaming in the mid-20th century. One of the earliest ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario (franchise)
is a video game series and media franchise created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. Starring the titular plumber character Mario, the franchise began with video games but has extended to other forms of media, including a List of Mario television series, television series, comic books, a Super Mario Bros. (film), 1993 film, a The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023 film, and Super Nintendo World, a theme park area. Mario made List of video games featuring Mario, his first video game appearance in the arcade game ''Donkey Kong (1981 video game), Donkey Kong'' (1981) and was featured in multiple ''Donkey Kong'' games prior to ''Mario Bros.'' (1983), the first game with "''Mario''" in the title. ''Mario'' video games have been developed by a variety of developers, with the vast majority produced and published by Nintendo and released exclusively on Nintendo video game consoles, Nintendo's video game consoles. The flagship ''Mario'' subseries is the Super Mario, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Player Character
A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional Character (arts), character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs). The actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games. The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling the character. Video games typically have one player character for each person playing the game. Some games, such as multiplayer online battle arena, hero shooter, and fighting games, offer a group of player characters for the player to choose from, allowing the player to control one of them at a time. Where more than one player character is available, the characters may have distinctive Attribute (rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrel Roll
A barrel roll is an aerial maneuver in which an airplane makes a complete rotation on both its longitudinal and lateral axes, causing it to follow a helix, helical path, approximately maintaining its original direction. It is sometimes described as a "combination of a loop and a Aircraft principal axes#Longitudinal axis (roll), roll". The g-force is kept positive (but not constant) on the object throughout the maneuver, commonly between 2 and 3''g'', and no less than 0.5''g''. The barrel roll is commonly confused with an aileron roll. Etymology The barrel roll is so named because an aircraft executing this maneuver looks as though it were flying with its wheels running around the inside wall of a cylinder, or an imaginary barrel lying on its side. A more common modern visualization is to imagine an airplane trying to fly in a horizontal corkscrew around the line of the direction of travel. Although the maneuver predates the name, the term was first used in 1917, gaining populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Note
Music Note (born February 5, 2005, in Kentucky) is retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who was a five-time Grade I stakes winner. At age three, she won the Gazelle, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks, then finished third to Zenyatta in the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic. In 2009, she won the Ballerina and Beldame Stakes, the again finished third in the Ladies Classic. She finished with career earnings of over $1.6 million. Background Music Note is a bay mare who was bred in Kentucky by Gainsborough Farm, the American breeding arm of Godolphin Racing. She raced for Godolphin and was originally trained by Tom Albertrani before being switched to Saeed bin Suroor in 2008. She was sired by A.P. Indy, who was the 1991 American Horse of the Year and subsequently a leading sire. She was produced by the unraced mare Note Musicale, who was by leading Irish stallion Sadler's Wells and out of champion It's In the Air. Note Musicale also produced French classic winner Musical Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kart Circuit
A kart circuit is a race track designed for kart racing or other forms of short-length motor racing, such as small-scale motorcycle racing, pocketbike racing, or radio-controlled model racing. There are several types of kart circuit, depending on the type of use desired. Unlike regular race tracks intended for auto racing or other forms of motorsports, kart circuits are usually much shorter in length, narrower, and contains numerous turns or corners. Circuit types Short circuit A short circuit is defined as being an outdoor circuit of less than 1,500 meters in length . The average length for a serious racing track for karts is around 1,100 - 1,200 meters, 7 to 9 meters in width. Normally custom-built for karting, they resemble road courses, with left and right turns. They generally allow sprint racing for both gearbox and non-gearbox karts. Temporary circuits can be set in city streets or large parking lots for special events. This is the case for the Junior Monaco Kart Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
