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Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

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Mario Kart Double Dash!! U.S. Release Date: November 17, 2003 The GameCube Archives Score: 6.5/10 Mario Kart is one of the most popular video game franchises in history. Every entry released for a Nintendo console has been a top-five best seller for that respective console. Several have been number one. However, there's a black sheep of the bunch. While Mario Kart: Double Dash is the second best selling GameCube game of all time, it's sold less copies than any other Mario Kart entry...even Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U. On top of that, this 2003 offering seems to have the lowest reputation. Back in the GameCube era, I bought essentially every marquee game for the system but Double Dash . I did play the game once, at my friend Robker's house, but I found that I hated it, disliking the mechanics and tracks.  Double exclamation points be damned! However, in recent years, es...