The "Timber 64" legend is an urban legend revolving around the 1997 racing game Diddy Kong Racing.
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Although their origin is hard to discern, rumors persisted after the game's release that Timber, a tiger who was one of the game's playable racers, was slated to receive his own video game spin-off on the Nintendo 64. Bumper the badger and Mipsy the mouse were rumored to co-star. This rumor may been concocted due to two other characters from the game, Banjo the bear and Conker the squirrel, received their own spin-off games, Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day, respectively.
In a 2012 interview with a (now defunct) website called Not Enough Shaders, several former Rare employees confirmed that no Timber game was ever in development. The closest a Timber game ever got to be developed was an early version of Diddy Kong Racing called Pro-Am 64, a sequel of sorts to the 1988 racing game R.C. Pro-Am. Timber was slated to be the main character of this game, but the game was reworked into Diddy Kong Racing. The setting of the game, Timber Island, could be a nod to Timber once being the protagonist.