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veeflames

Hey, NLifers! What's your favourite Rainbow Road?
Rainbow Roads are unique courses in Mario Kart. They're colorful, bright and happy. They're also one of the most dangerous courses in the series, with the lack of barriers, dangerous curves and turns and the ruthless falls. Each Rainbow Road is different in an installment of the series, some safe, some just unplayable
So which Rainbow Road is your favourite? List them out in order, give reasons and note that retro courses are also allowed!

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veeflames

My favourite is Rainbow Road GCN, by the way.

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Kyloctopus

Mario Kart DS's Raibow Road was pretty cool. Back then, it blew my mind. How hectic it could be. The road, not only was hard to traverse alongside it having little-to-no walls, but it also didn't give much space. As a fan of Toad, I wasn't incredibly happy about this, but it did make my races a bit more interesting.
I also find it weird that Rainbow Road has 2 loop-de-loops while Mario Kart 8's Rainbow Road had none.

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I like them all

SNES or Wii. Wii is probably a bit more interesting but SNES is harder and more satisfying to master.

I'd like to have had SNES Rainbow Road as a retro track on WIi or Wii U. I know there was on 3DS but I love the music.

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ReaperMelia

The MK8 version of Mario Kart 64's Rainbow Road is my favorite. There's something amazing about that specific version of it! MK7's is also very close. MK8's normal Rainbow Road comes after that. The only other one I've played on is MKWii, and while that one was fun, it was also really annoying.

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veeflames

OK... I like all of them, but out of all the ones I've played extensively, I would say my least favourite(s) are the Wii and MK7 ones. The former was just wicked WICKED and the latter was a bit bland... I do like the music of the Wii one though.
Anyway, My other top picks include MK7 SNES Rainbow Road, MK8 Rainbow Road, MKDS Rainbow Road...

Oh, and thanks for your comments!

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havent played all MKs and i generally dont really like rainbow roads^^

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MK7's looked so pretty, but was pretty bland, I'd have to argue. My favorite one would probably be MKDS's or MK8's.

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Dizzy_Boy

Mario Kart 8 rainbow road is possibly the least annoying and is just genrally dull to look at. I'm not too fussed about the difficulty, but I thought Nintendo would have kept the colours alot more vibrant.
My favourite had to be the Mario Kart Wii rainbow road as it was the first one I actually managed to master, mainly because it was online and I can't stand loosing to some of my friends.

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Wii. Hands down. 64 at a close sencond. Compared to them, the rest don't even have a chance.

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SpaceGhost11

I would say MK8's because I think it has easily the best music of them all (aside from 7's), but from a gameplay perspective I prefer racing on 64's, so I'll go with the MK8 version of 64's Rainbow Road.

Why? Online multiplayer and updated visuals and music improve on an already great track.

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Wii. Hands down. 64 at a close sencond. Compared to them, the rest don't even have a chance.

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unrandomsam

SNES - It is perfect and what Rainbow Road should be. (Just like it is).

Don't see the point in games with massive luck elements online. (It is even worse with MK8 because you don't even get your time so there is no way to work out whether you are getting better or just luckier.)

Artificially bad first lap seems to improve the items you get for the rest of the race and I don't see the point in that.

Dunno about GBA but after that it became a party game. (An online party game with strangers just doesn't work for me).

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+1 for SNES, showed off best bits of the game's controls and challenging in the right way

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larry_koopa

The one from the N64 game. Hands down.

I hate what they did to it in Mario Kart 8 (i.e. making it a single-lap race.) I loved the courses in Mario Kart 64 that lasted a good 5 minutes (Wario Stadium also comes to mind). I wish Nintendo wasn't afraid to include long races in the modern Mario Karts.

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Aesthetically, 7's is best, but MK7's rendition of SNES Rainbow Road has my favourite track design out of those I played (64/DS/Wii/7/8).

I also really like the DS one, but it always bugged me how there were two loop-de-loops in that course, which felt a little repetitive. I thought it looked kind of plain in comparison to other Rainbow Roads, too- I didn't notice a city or fireworks in the background like 64/Wii/8's and it doesn't have a really good theme like 7's. It's just got a plain, starry background with a random pipe and star thrown in so the place seems less empty. It bothers me less with MK7's SNES Rainbow Road, because as well as being much better graphically it's a shorter, more intense track to race on.

It's funny how Super Circuit's Rainbow Road has just gone unmentioned outside of one post. Some of the GBA tracks seem really cool (especially Cheese Land), but nobody ever talks about them.

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unrandomsam

I don't see the point in any of the courses in Mario Kart 8 having more than one lap the first two make no difference to the final result at all.

(Mount Wario is fine as it is because it is never boring each lap is quite different like all of them should be).

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Freeon-Leon

I'd say MK8's N64 rainbow road... if only we had 2 more laps! Mk7's is also really good, I feel like Retro had something to do with it

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RR529

I'll say MK7's remake of the SNES Rainbow Road. The ever so nostalgic music & course design coupled with the modernized game mechanics.

I would have said the original version of SNES RR, but upon firing up the game for the first time in a long while the other day, I was surprised just how loose & unrefined everything felt (about the game in general). Maybe it's just because I was out of practice...

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The SNES Rainbow Road is still my favorite although I like the remake they had of it in MK7.

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