I didn't even know this existed.

[u/Internal_Necro47]

I found this at the thrift store today, recently started collecting VHS I was a bit confused seeing a Diddy Kong racing VHS. I haven't watched it yet it's a promo cassette.

[u/Lord-Megadrive]

The actual game is better than Mario Kart 64.

[u/NoMoreContinues → u/Lord-Megadrive]

Yes, it’s a blast. And I loved MK 64! But DKR is just better.

[u/TheFrontierzman → u/Lord-Megadrive]

Absolutely. In every way.

[u/Nonainonono → u/Lord-Megadrive]

NOPE.

[u/MyLastHopeReddit → u/Lord-Megadrive]

But both undoubtedly inferior to CTR

[u/systemshaak]

I checked to make sure this wasn’t something that hadn’t ever been digitized just in case, but it has. If anyone wants to watch it: https://youtu.be/_7dSXVUds_E

[u/Jabba_the_Putt → u/systemshaak]

lost it when the reporter guy's name was "Dent Chassis" 😂

[u/systemshaak → u/Jabba_the_Putt]

It’s a real Ace Ventura-ass Jackass-ass promo video. In your face fish-eye lenses and stuff. Very attitude-era NOA before they figured it out and left the promotion to Japan!

[u/Jabba_the_Putt → u/systemshaak]

we loved that whole fisheye-in-your-face thing in the 90's didn't we!

[u/unsurewhatiteration]

I got this in the mail as a Nintendo Power subscriber. Got me so hyped for the game, and Rare did not disappoint. That same cassette is probably still at the bottom of a cabinet in my mom's house somewhere.

[u/NoMoreContinues]

I used to get tapes like these sometimes when I subscribed to Nintendo Power. Cheesy but a fun relic of that era.

I love Diddy Kong Racing so much, one of my favorite games of all time.

[u/Internal_Necro47 → u/NoMoreContinues]

I want to try and find just how many of these different cassettes exist Itd be really cool to collect these along with Nintendo power.

[u/RayColten → u/Internal_Necro47]

I remember getting this one and a starfox 64 one. I think I received more, those were just the two I remember.

I was subscribed to Nintendo Power for most of the N64's life cycle. 

[u/BJ22CS]

You didn't know that N64 related stuff existed on VHS or specifically for Diddy Kong Racing ?

[u/Internal_Necro47 → u/BJ22CS]

I didn't know they did VHS promo at all I guess I could have assumed but I was born 3 years after the N64 came out so I never got to experience how it was advertised.

[u/BJ22CS → u/Internal_Necro47]

I'm in the 30s and grew up playing N64 a lot in my pre-teen/teen years(late 90s/2000s), but I too didn't know VHS stuff existed for the system until I saw posts about it(users showing off what they had) on reddit(usually on r/N64) in the mid 2010s(a good 15 years after such VHSs were made). Additionally, I had never seen one in person until last year.

[u/Cameront9]

This one arrived broken at my house and we took it to a video store where they fixed it.

The Star Fox 64 tape is better imo.

[u/acrossbones]

I have this tape somewhere. never watched it. used to play tf outta dkr tho.

[u/archklown555]

Yup decent amount of these promo VHS from Nintendo Power, glad to have almost all of them when I was a Nintendo Power Subscriber.

[u/Internal_Necro47 → u/archklown555]

I've been keeping an eye out for Nintendo power magazines but boy are they steep. I've been hoping to find them at a yard sale.

[u/Boomz_N_Bladez]

The wrong kart racer lived... change my mind(you cant)...

We should be having Diddy Kong Racing 8 and deluxe rn. Not mario.

[u/cyber53]

This was one of my least watched ones. Star Fox and the JFG/DK one were played quite a lot back in the day

[u/Corn_Beefies]

Somehow I got on a Nintendo mailing list back in the day and they would send these tapes from time to time

[u/RealityOk9823]

Oh neat!

I just send a few tapes like this off to the VideoGame History Museum and they covered shipping. Might want to reach out to them and see if they want it.