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Mario Kart: Double Dash

Today I bought Mario Kart for the GameCube. Super Mario Kart for the SNES has got to be my all time favorite game. I still am not sure if this game fully lives up to it, but it is a pretty fun game itself. I've never played the N64 version,so I can't comment on that.
One thing that I have not received, the bonus disc that was supposed to be included if you pre-ordered the game. I did pre-order, but the people at Wal-Mart said they didn't have them in yet, Actually, the people at Wal-Mart were pretty clueless. They were advertising the game was going to be available November 18th (even though it was released nationwide on the 17th), but they didn't even have it on the shelf. The lady I spoke with said she was pretty sure the game wasn't in yet, but then double checked and sure enough, there was a whole box of games not even opened yet in the back.
But, now I have it and today I was able to easily (first try) get Gold trophies for all three circuits on the 50cc. So far I have received a Silver trophy for each race in the 100cc, but I have only played the 100cc races once now.
The graphics of the game are basically the same as Mario Sunshine, and I think they basically just took a number of the 3D graphics from Mario Sunshine and just did some minor edits and added them to MK:DD.