Today (September 1st, 2022) marks 30 years since the launch of Super Mario Kart in North America. In the years since, Mario Kart has gone on to be one of the most successful Nintendo franchises of all time, with the latest mainline release - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - topping the Switch's best-selling titles with over 40 million units sold. Mad!
So to celebrate, we thought we'd take a look at how each of us was introduced to the Mario Kart franchise, and we'd love to find out how you were introduced, too! Check out our "origin" stories below and be sure to post your own in the comments below.
- Further Reading: Super Mario Kart At 30: How 16-Bit Limitations Created A Franchise-Defining Mechanic
Kate Gray, Staff Writer
My first Mario Kart game, like millions of other '90s kids, was Mario Kart 64. I was single-digits-years-old when my dad got it for Christmas, so I wasn't going to be taking home too many trophies, but it didn't matter too much to me and my (younger) brother. We'd boot up the game, head straight to Kalimari Desert, and just cruise around like it was a Nintendo-made GTA game with zero pedestrians. I'd try to get to know the cows in Moo Moo Farm. I'd learn the shortcuts in Yoshi Valley off by heart (not that it did any good, because I wasn't good at the racing part). I loved the Battle mode, especially discovering that you could be a little bomb-ghost after you'd lost all your balloons, still able to cause one last bit of chaos before departing to the big Mushroom Kingdom in the sky.
I think what Mario Kart 64 awoke in me was that childlike feeling that there could be incredible secrets around any corner. This was before I spoke the language of video games — before I was able to accurately guess which rooms on a dungeon map would be the treasure rooms and the mini-boss fights, before I knew that the first thing you do in a side-scrolling game is go left, because there's always a secret there. When I played Mario Kart for the first time, every secret felt like I was the first person to find it. Did you know you can drive on the tracks in Kalimari Desert? Or that you can go right up to Peach's Castle in Royal Raceway? Of course you did, you plundered the depths of those courses just as I did. But for one golden moment in the '90s, I felt like I'd discovered something new and amazing. I miss that feeling.
Ollie Reynolds, Staff Writer
Much like my experience with Metroid and The Legend of Zelda, my love for the Mario Kart franchise didn't really kick off until the GameCube/GBA era. I can't recall for certain whether I played Double Dash!! first or if Super Circuit was my entry point, but since Super Circuit came out a good two years prior to Double Dash!!, my assumption is I started with that one.
I still love Super Circuit to this very day. When viewed against the likes of Mario Kart 8 or even Mario Kart DS, the GBA entry certainly looks and feels pretty dated by comparison, but there was an undeniable appeal in its simplicity. Tracks like Sky Guy Beach and Ribbon Road were such good fun to race around, despite the obvious lack of any verticality. It also happened to look absolutely stunning for a GBA game!
Super Circuit isn't my favourite Mario Kart game though; that honour still belongs to the wonderful Double Dash!!. But if it weren't for those early days in high school playing through a GP or two during lunch break on my purple GBA, I'm pretty confident Mario Kart would have completely fallen by the wayside. After all, I was just a bit obsessed with Crash Team Racing back in 1999..!
Alana Hagues, Staff Writer
So much of my Nintendo history started with the N64, and Mario Kart is no exception. Mario Kart 64 was the party game to play with my family – so much so that I would sneak in extra sessions in the evenings just so I could win the odd race or two against my brother or my cousins. I would drive around Rainbow Road and hum along to that lovely, nostalgic tune, and try out those shortcuts in Wario Stadium over and over.
But the moment I fell in love with Mario Kart was with Double Dash!! There was something about the swappable driver mechanic, the exclusive items, and the fact that King Boo was in it, that made it endlessly replayable for me, whether I was with friends or alone. I got to know the ins and outs of every track, and courses like Dino Dino Jungle, DK Mountain, Daisy Cruiser, and Bowser’s Castle have become some of my all-time favourites. The kart-driving mechanics have, honestly, never been better for me. Double Dash is also arguably the game that made me super competitive, so if you end up with a GameCube controller by my side, we’ll have to have a showdown.
Mario Kart is a staple in every Nintendo console’s library for me; whether I end up playing it for five hours or 100 hours doesn’t matter to me. It’s just a burst of fun and a good night in with friends, even as an adult.
Jim Norman, Staff Writer
Perhaps one of the most enduring franchises throughout my gaming life, Mario Kart has caused more arguments in my household than I care to remember. Importantly though, it has also provided some of my best times and continues to be my favourite multiplayer experience to this day.
Like many people of my generation, my entry point to the franchise was Mario Kart DS. Looking back, this is a frankly unfair start. I wholeheartedly believe that the game continues to be one of the series’ best. I distinctly remember losing my mind over the discovery of the starting boost function (3…2…hold accelerate…1…BOOST) and spending way too much time in the game’s strange Pimp My Ride add on where I would design slick new paintjobs for my karts – I assume the graphic design job offer from Mario himself got lost in the mail.
While I concede that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the definitive franchise entry, Mario Kart DS will always hold a special place in the starting grid of my heart.
Gavin Lane, Editor
Mario Kart 64 was my first time behind the wheel of one of Mario’s karts. The game has its detractors, and sure, those character sprites looked a bit old even at launch, but it’s hard to get hung up on trivial details when you’re racing against three pals, avoiding turtles and trains and whatever else stands between you and victory.
Thinking back, two things stick in my mind. The first is the time I managed to pull off the Mario Raceway shortcut on every lap and save it as a ghost. It’s still on a Memory Pak somewhere, and despite having the means to back it up via Everdrive 64, I still haven’t done so. In the big scheme of video game challenges, it’s probably small fry, but I was absolutely delighted with my achievement at the time.
Second, the PAL version was weird. As an early N64 release, it was slower than the NTSC equivalent, but there were some battle stages that, if started with a certain number of players, would run incredibly fast compared to the base game speed. I remember noting the stages and specific conditions that inexplicably made them move like lightning in the back of the manual – and helpfully, I don’t have access to that manual at the time of writing. Was this the case with the NTSC version, too? Let me know in the comments if so!
So there you have it! We hope you've enjoyed this little peek into how each of us was introduced to the Mario Kart franchise.
Now we want to know how you were introduced. Cast your vote in the poll below and let us know which game you played first, then give us a bit of context with a comment!
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Mine was Mario Kart Wii, and for that reason, it still remains my favorite in the series. I love the ridiculous amount of chaos, awesome track design, and killer music.
Mine was Mario Kart 64. Still very nostalgic for it, but my personal favorites are Mario Kart Double Dash and Mario Kart 8.
Mario Kart Wii. The best one tbh
Wii, and I miss its automatic drift option. It didn't provide a boost or benefit to others, but was so helpful in allowing inexperienced or new players to play with confidence.
The original SNES Mario Kart. Those graphics were awesome at the time.
I think MK64 is the best one because all of its imperfections make it funnier with friends… a chaotic mess to make you laugh and have fun.
Super Mario Kart on the SNES. Such an awesome game for its time, but sadly it didn't age well.
Despite the GBA being my first handheld I hadn't MK Super Circuit. I had in fact not much GBA games at all, only Pokemon Ruby, Leafgreen, Emerald and M+L Superstar Saga (but those 4 where worth it)
Therefore my first MK was MKDS
Mario Kart Double Dash. Even though I had an N64 growing up, Mario Kart 64 somehow passed me by.
64. It was my family's 3rd N64 game.
Good ol' Mario Kart Wii baby! I'll never forget the dozens if not hundreds of hours I spent just endlessly replaying the cups and battle tracks, both on my own and with my sisters. I still think Wii has some of the best new and retro tracks in the series (followed closely by both 7 and 8 respectively) and I could never tire of it myself. Bring back Wii's Rainbow Road in the Booster Course Pass you cowards (and also Moonview Highway whilst you're at it)!
The very first one, on SNES.
The original for the SNES and my favourite is MKW. Without nostalgia MK8D is definitely the best.
First Mario Kart game I played was Mario Kart 64. A friend of mine had a N64. My first own Mario Kart game was Mario Kart Super Circuit. Bought the Game Boy Advance on release date. Mario Kart Super Circuit was released later, but also had a lot of fun with the kart racer game Konami Krazy Racers.
S.N.E.S.'s Super Mario Kart
It's still the best one, especially Battle Mode!
Super Circuit and DS are also really great entries!
MK Wii raised me. I remember if you left the game alone for too long for me, it would crash. Thus causing my fear of error screens…
To this day I remember seeing Super Mario Kart for the first time, running on a demo kiosk in Walmart.
Original Mario Kart doesn't hold up but you can get it pretty nice looking with BSNES-HD it un-chunkies the Mode 7.
Super Mario Kart. I always, always lost to my friend. Didn't get truly competitive with him until Mario Kart 64 rolled around.
The original, and I do not enjoy my time with it. I didn't really start liking Mario Kart till the GBA one.
My first Mario Kart was the original SNES game, which belonged to my older brother. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of this game--I can recall being around six or seven years old and getting to the end of the Special Cup for the first time. I told my brother, "There's a third Ghost Valley and it ends with you racing on a rainbow!" I had already lost the cup, so he didn't believe me until sometime later when I managed to make it there again.
I also remember being maybe like four or five years old and I threw up on one of our SNES controllers. My dad had to unscrew it and clean it out from the inside. I know this is going to sound bizarre, but after he cleaned it, the game started experiencing really weird glitches whenever that controller was plugged into the port on the SNES. My racer on the screen would keep shrinking and growing, shrinking and growing, as if it kept getting hit with the lightning power-up. Then, the game would automatically pause itself and select the "Give Up" option.
I don't know what would have caused this, unless there had been some damage to the controller chip that somehow made the game think the system had been hacked, and so it triggered an anti-piracy measure by Nintendo or something. It was really bizarre, and I swear I didn't dream it up.
I still enjoy going back to Super Mario Kart once in a while, but I think Double-Dash!! (the next Mario Kart game) is where I really fell in love with the franchise. Lots of great memories attached to that one--it was just pure fun. After that would have probably been the DS game. I never got to experience online racing, as we didn't have Wi-Fi back then, but I spent a bunch of time playing it with one of my cousins when I would stay over at my grandmother's house.
Mario Kart 64 was the first one that I had. Got it with my Nintendo 64 as a Christmas present when I was 5. It was fun just racing around the courses for my child self, plus they looked awesome for the time! Surprisingly, we never had Super Mario Kart before I got MK64, but I did get SMK a year or so afterward.
Mario Kart 64, it's a game that's quite dear to me but even I can see it's quite a janky one in a lot of ways and rather lacking in content, and even back then I thought it paled in comparison with fellow kart racers Diddy Kong Racing & Crash Team Racing, both of which I think stand the test of time much better.
I was a SNES kid but I never had or got to play the SNES Mario Kart until much later, probably tried it in my emulator binge back in the Gamecube era but I didn't really play it to completion until recently, it's a nice challenging single player Mario Kart, very different from the other entries.
DS, but 7 was the first I actually liked. You’re still all old.
Y’all really going to do this to us 30+ year olds?
My first Mario Kart was DS through download play with friends at school. I eventually bought my own, then we all moved on to MK7 together on the 3DS. Highschool was a simpler time.
Mario Kart Wii was my childhood, and it's still one of my favorites. I think the reason I'm so good at Mario Kart in general is because MKWii's Rainbow Road had hardened me.
Super Mario kart on the SNES. Loved that game. It was really something else and special back then. I still play it on the original SNES with a friend sometimes. Great memories.
SNES, baby - but I never owned it until much later. I rented it many times though, but since my mom worked at Blockbuster it was free! I first owned MK64, and it was actually the old demo copy from the same store - it says "Not for Resale" on it. That's okay, I didn't buy it nor sell it!
Super Mario Kart is mine. I remember playing with my sister and my favorite memories are playing the battle mode with her. The first time I discovered I could jump over the barricade with the feather and paddle around in the water was magic!
Either Super Mario Kart at a friend's house and I didn't realize I was the player 2 screen, which absolutely sucked because I was making close to the same left/right movements as my friend, or Mario Kart Super Circuit when someone let me have one race via a link cable.
Well, the first one that I played was Mario Kart 64 at a friend's house. The first one that I actually owned was Mario Kart Wii.
But frankly, I'm not that big of a fan of Mario Kart, especially after playing Mario Kart 7. There's very little replay value, and once I unlock all the characters, tracks, and car parts, there's no point in playing the game.
And for that matter, unlocking all of those things, especially the car parts, is a chore and a half. Since you can only get no more than ten coins per race, and there are four races per cup, you can only get 40 coins maximum per cup. Some of those car parts take thousands of coins to unlock, meaning you would have to play hundreds of times to unlock everything.
The gold car parts are especially frustrating, since you need 10,000, 15,000, and 20,000 coins to unlock each part (glider, wheels, and kart, respectively), meaning you need to get 40 coins in 250, 375, and 500 races, respectively, in order to unlock those parts.
Of course, this is based on my experience with Mario Kart 7 only. I don't know if Mario Kart 8 does the same thing.
Super Mario Kart. I'm a fossil and going by the results, so are many of you.
Super Mario kart SNEs, from the beginning 👌 still my favourite version
Mario Kart DS for me, and it still absolutely remains up there. Some of the best stages and battle modes were in that game.
My first was MK Wii.
I remember me and my brother watching all of the commercials for it and when we finally got our hands on it we played it to death.
I beaten it multiple times cause he would constantly delete mario kart for space.
After wii then i personally got DS, 7 and finally 8dx.
Double Dash was the first I played, DS was the first I owned.
Seeing these responses makes me realize how old I am. Now get off my lawn.
Original Super Mario Kart is where I had my start but my favorite entry is actually Mario Kart 7. I just love how there's no water hazard penalty anymore, when you go underwater it switch to gravity mode and keeps you going. In past games if you fall under water it will slow you down and if Lakitu caught you, you lose 2 coins.
I’m going to go with Mk64. It’s possible that I played Super MK, but I can’t really remember it, and I largely missed the Super Nintendo (never had or lived with one). My distinct memories of Super are from later on. But MK64 released when I was in college and ruled the TV in our apartment. When I remember those years, I think of my roommates and friends listening to Wu-Tang Clan, and posting MK64 and Wave Racer. Great memories!!
rented SMK couldn't get into it, 64 on the other hand...
Mario Kart DS. But I've now played them all though time with Double Dash was very limited since I don't own it and only got to play it once.
Mario Kart Arcade GP.
First time I knew about Mario Kart game before I knew another Mario Kart game on Wii.
Super Mario Kart.
The game will always hold a special place in my heart due to all the hours playing it with my younger brother. Having said that, I tried it on the SNES NSO app when it came out on there, as much as I loved it growing up, I've been spoiled way too much with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
As a dad now, I'm so grateful for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, both of my boys enjoy the game and I love creating those moments/memories with them.
I started with the original Super Mario Kart.. I remember back then Mario mostly jumped on Kooper's heads but when we put this game in it was all out war in a sweet way. It was a game that got played almost everyday along with Super Bomberman, Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and Pop N Rwinbee.
My first MK was Super on the Super Famicom. I liked it a lot at the time, but over the years I’ve crystallised around MK64, DS and 8 Deluxe as my favourites.
64. It was fun, but didn't have much content or appeal except the "Mario" brand.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who started all the way back on the SNES!
Super mariokart
We had soo much fun playing with friends and family.
I played the original when it first came out & I never cared for it personally. Mario Kart 64 on the otherhand was when I really got into it.
43% for Super Mario Kart (myself included).
It indicates that the average of the people that voted are over 40.
A percentage for every year we've been alive Hahaha
The original SNES Mario Kart for me. Me and my mate had many a late night playing it. The tracks may have all been flat as pancakes, but it’s “mode 7” graphics made up for that.
Super Mario Kart....it was my best all time game till 2000's !
I was very used to Super Mario Kart. The day I bought the Nintendo 64 with mario kart 64, I almost kicked Nintendo out of my life, and almost threw the newly purchased Nintendo 64 from a mountain, because of how much I found that game bad. I kept playing Super Mario Kart.... and practically jumped the Nintendo 64 era.... it was the video game that was most abandoned in my house, along with the 32x (sega) and the Neo geo CD. In Nintendo 64 era I played more Saturn, 3DO, SNES and Playstation-1.
Super Mario Kart was still my favorite game that time...
For me, Super Mario Kart, and I sometimes get the original Rainbow Road theme stuck in my head when I think about.
At the risk of sounding like a boomer, Super Mario Kart, at launch.
Mario Kart DS.I miss its battle mode,was so much fun.Much better than mario kart 8 deluxe.Also Rainbow Road DS is best Rainbow Road.
Although I’d messed around with the original SNES game on shops I was a Mega Drive kid in the early 90s. My first true experience was Mario Kart 64. One of my close friends had the game and it became a staple of our Friday/Saturday night 4 player N64 sessions along with Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. He was always king of the game (he won a whole school Mario Kart competition despite not yet owning the game the previous year, something he’s still proud of nearly 25 years later!).
However, my first true Mario Kart was Double Dash!! and it remains my favourite by far. It just FEELS right, the physics are spot on and it is bright and colourful. I find the later games, especially 8, have too much going on in the background to distract me from racing. Double Dash got it just right.
Plus also the fact that the very first time I played it was the same group of friends on New Year’s Eve 2004. I was massively hung over from going out the night before and felt rough as anything. Double Dash made me forget my headache and I love it to this day.
Oh and I can beat my friend on it just like he still kicks my backside on Mario Kart 64!
Double Dash and it is still my favourite to this day
My first one would be Mario Kart Wii. Also one of the first games I ever played. I got some crazy records by doing ultra shortcuts. I DARE you to try to beat my record on Grumble Volcano.
Even tho I was born during the N64's reign of terror, Super Mario Kart was the first one I played. The SNES was my childhood console before I was old enough for the N64 and PS2.
Super mario kart. Yes, I'm that old
You whippersnappers! Super Mario Kart was my first - much fun had with this at school - and Ghost Valley 1 is still one of the best.
64 was my first and its battle mode will never be beaten. Why won’t modern Mario Kart let you play an elimination mode? I loathe 8 Deluxe’s mechanic where nobody is ever knocked out.
The first Mario Kart I played was Double Dash at my cousins house. We had so much fun in the battle mode. The first MK game I owned was 7 and I still love that game.
Super Mario kart. The good old days
Now my first Mario Kart was 64 and… well I hated it. The tracks were so wide and that train track where sometimes you’d just be stuck waiting for that to pass whilst everyone zoomed ahead. For a good time I thought Mario Kart was awful based on that game.
Then, even more controversially, I played Super Circuit on the GBA, playing as a Yoshi using a link cable and a friends cartridge and I loved it! I bought my own copy as soon as I could afford and enjoyed every main entry since. Still don’t like 64 though.
I’d say that Super Mario Kart was the first one I saw since I was just a toddler born a couple of years after it launched but I’m pretty sure Mario Kart 64 was the first one I actually played. That’s the first one I faintly remember playing. If I had played Super Mario Kart first, I would’ve just played it like a clueless youngster. Its learning curve still mostly eludes me even as a grown up! Still a great, little game.
My first exposure to Mario kart was MK64, when Friends introduced me to it, my first Mario Kart that I owned was Mario kart DS, so I chose that when answering the poll
My first was SNES Mario Kart, and I thought it was okay.
I loved Mario Kart 64.
Similarly with F-Zero, I wasn't a huge fan of the original but love F-Zero X and GX.
Super Mario Kart. Myself and my brother played against each other a lot. The first Mario Kart game I owned was Mario Kart Super Circuit.
Proud to say Mario Kart 64 was my first entry at a mere 6 years old, when my aunt gave me a dusty old cart of it alongside Super Mario 64 and her old Nintendo 64 as a gift. The first ever console I could call my own, and the first two games I ever played, almost a decade after they were released in the mid 90's. My family didn't have too much back in the day, so that hand me down console was all I had for quite a few years, and I loved it dearly up until I finally managed to save up for a used GameCube.
It's not my favourite entry anymore, but it certainly has the most nostalgia out of any game for me, together with Mario 64. I still remember just how terrible I was at it when I first was handed that alien controller, and how I tried to use the D- pad to steer because the stick was just too crazy for my pre- schooler mind to comprehend.
I was born in the 80s, so of course my first Mario Kart is going to be the original one on SNES!
Sooo the readers here are much older than the writers, is what I'm getting from this poll
NL has too many oldheads, where's my wii gang at?
The first mario kart I knew was Super Mario Kart, the first I played was Mario Kart 64 and the first one I owned is Super circuit.
Mario Kart 64.
@Deepdoop Mario kart Wii is one of my most played Wii and Mario Kart games but yeah I am simply too old for it to be my first.
Mario Kart DS for me, though my memories with that one are at the same time fond and hazy because I didn't actually own the game. My godfather got me one of those game carts that had a bunch of games on it, long before I even knew what a ROM was supposed to be. I played it on that, but admittedly never really fell in love with it because I didn't find racing all by myself all that fun. I grew older and really got stuck in at Mariokart 7, and when I played Mariokart DS on the bus with a group of buddies who'd all brought their DS along, now THAT was a great time. From a rather lukewarom first impression to racing its way right into my heart.
The first one I played was Super Mario Kart. I already posted my origin story with this in a comment from the prior NL article celebrating the anniversary.
But favorite of all time? Mario Kart Wii comes very close but definitely Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Per the reasons listed by @Gamecuber - well put sir! The Wii version was fun and the weekly challenges at the time were pretty cool. Also, Coconut Mall and Miis. 😇😉
The first, its tied with Super Circuit and 8D as the best.
If Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is your first Mario Kart game, I question whether you are old enough to have an account on this website.
Mine was Super Mario Kart, but my absolute favorites are Double Dash!! and 8 (debatable if it includes 8 Deluxe).
I played Super Mario kart and Mario kart 64 at friends houses, but I wasn't any good at them. Wii was the first one I owned and played through each stage. But honestly, Mariokart 7 on the 3DS is the one I spent the most time with, aiming to unlock everything and getting 3 stars on each track.
Pretty sure it was 64, may have been Super. First one I actually owned I think was Super Circuit.
Oh boy I am old. My first Mario kart was the OG SNES cart. MK8 is the bestest of the series. My daughter has some of her first memories playing with me on the wii, so I have a sweet spot for that version. So much that we just bought a Wii and the racing wheels to bring back the good times.
The original Super Mario Kart on SNES, it was one of my first SNES games as well. My favourite is still Mario Kart 64 though, because it had the best Battle Mode.
The original on SNES was the first one I ever played, but Super Circuit on the GBA is the first one I ever owned.
Super Mario Kart on SNES Classic Mini. I've completed it once and liked to relaxing in Time Trial Mode. That's all.
Super Mario Kart. I still love the music and the retro graphics, but in my opinion the feel of the controls did not age well.
I think the poll may read like an age distribution of readers of this site. A bunch of us in our late 30s or early 40s.
Sleepover at my friend's house when I was maybe 8 or 9. He got Super Mario Kart as a present and we stayed up til like 2 in the morning playing! Great memory for sure though crazy enough the only ones I've played are the original and MK8D!
The original Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo was my first - it’s probably my 2nd most played overall, after MK8 on the Wii U + Switch. It was easily the most fun I ever had with a racing game to that point.
Mario Kart 64, and I agree with others about best battle mode. What more do you need than block fort? Absolutely dislike double dash. It never made sense to me when it came out, and still doesn’t make sense to me when I’ve gone back to it. All the handheld ones are incredible as well
43% for Super Mario Kart after 1.5k votes?!
I'm surprised and comforted by this, must be a lot of other oldies here like me
Mario Kart Wii was not only my first Mario Kart, but my first video game. I love 8 and 8 Deluxe, but Wii will always be a little more special.
64, Im a 90s kid
@Magrane I thank you Sir!
@Grim I’m surprised about Double Dash, it feels very much like a more refined version of 64 to me (it is my favourite though so I am biased). In terms of battle mode though, 64 was the favourite until my friend and I discovered Shine Thief on Double Dash after ignoring it for years. That’s now my favourite.
My first Mario Kart was the SNES game, but I did not enjoy it. Because of that game, I did not play another Mario Kart games again until the Wii.
Mario Kart Wii is easily one of my favorite games.
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@Not_Soos You skipped over Mario Kart 64, but that's cool. As for Mario Kart DS it was fun online, but it had a terrible problem with "snaking" where players drift quickly left and right to get constant speed boosts. Some called it next level, but most of us called it cheating.
@Switch_Pro I agree and have said it several times. The way to perfect Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Battle mode would be to add Block Fort from MK64.
SNES for me. At the time we lived in the US (I was about 12) and owned a NES, but my brother and I used to bike down to Target just to play on the demo SNES unit. I loved playing Contra and Super Mario World, and I remember being disappointed when the had Mario Kart instead as I couldn’t get my head around the mode 7 graphics. Fast forward a year or so and we were back in the UK, and my cousin had the game for his snes. Once I got used to it I was hooked, and spent countless hours in his bedroom playing 2p Grand Prix.
I spent probably more time though on MK64 as it was the go to game at uni with mates, at least until I got Goldeneye.
I would say MK8 deluxe is best overall, but I still think the SNES one stands up once you relearn the handling.
@NeonPizza Totally agree, I wish there was a mode or at least the option to turn items off. I might be mistaken but I thought one of the Mario Karts did that but I might be mistaken.
Mario Kart 64 for me. Great game. I used to own a SNES as well, but never bought the game or had the game bought for me. I played the 64 version first and then bought MK SNES and played that as well later. Good times.
I'm old I’m her from the beginning.
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