I have a funny story about MK64. When I first got my own N64 (one with an atomic purple controller), I asked for Banjo-Kazooie. My parents went out and bought MK64 instead. I was a little mad, but ended up playing the game anyway, as it was the only one I had. A couple weeks later, I finally got B-K and played through part of it, and really hated it. I traded it in for Paper Mario later.

Meanwhile I'd put Mario Kart 64 in for the next year or so and play for hours. I'd say during the first few years after I got it, it was one of the games I'd played the most. Weird how that turned out. It was also the N64 game I'd owned for the longest (about 15 years before I finally said "screw it" and traded it in, since it was on the Wii's VC by that point).

I always picked Toad or Yoshi. Stuck with those two throughout all the other MK games. To this day it's still my favorite MK game.