Play: We'll Be Blasting Through Mario Kart 1-7 in a Twitch Marathon

Super stoked for this! The MKWii night was great fun.

include the mario kart arcade machines !!!!

That follow button is FAKE!

Link? They better play as Rosalina, Funky, & Waluigi, or else...

I might watch snippets if I have time.

Hype!

I believe Roms will be needed, as Dolphin runs Arcade GP 1 and 2...

Speaking of Arcade GP, am I the only one who want GP DX courses for MK8 as DLC?

PAL version of SNES Mario Kart is bad (Its better run at NTSC speeds).

I suppose the GBA one will be captured via the GBA Player.

The DS one will work on the modded Japanese 3DS.

Cannot see how that cart could work with the modded Japanese 3DS though.

Hopefully we're play Mario Kart Lord Jump Mad!

@Fireninjastar They might have the board or know how to get to somewhere where one is. (I suspect the new one will be in Namco Station near the London Eye if not now pretty soon. It is where I played the last two).

@unrandomsam Arcade Machines, let alone boards, are PRETTY pricey.

Gotta get ma Kart!!

Darn it I have a college class during that time period on saturday. is there anyway you guys can record it and put it on youtube so people who don't get a chance to watch it live can see it?

I will watch.

Hype

Hey, I've playing through the seven Mario Karts as well!

Not only is that follow button fake, but so is the Double Dash box...when was that available in a red box? Is that just the artwork inserted into a red Wii game case?

@Fireninjastar Not as expensive as you think. (They had the MVS version of Gunlord which was £400). If you look on something like UKVAC you can get Arcade machines for sane prices. (They hate commercial dealers there also even to the point where they would rather take less to not sell to one).

I have an audition in the afternoon, but I'll catch a bit if I have time.

That is awesome! I will watch! Also, I have all of those games as well. w00t

I'll be sleeping then.

Where can I go and rant about how @NintyLife don't let anyone comment on the Tomodachi Life issue and they still have the note as a "featured article"?

Kinda wish I wasn't going on a Geography residential trip now.

@WaveBoy: Dude, I hope you get Mario Kart 8 and we can race while we enjoy some turtle pies and crystal Pepsi and Billy Idol jamming in the background!

@WaveBoy: Dude, I hope you get Mario Kart 8 and we can race while we enjoy some turtle pies and crystal Pepsi and Billy Idol jamming in the background!

What a brilliant idea, I'm looking forward to this!!! I own every Mario Kart too (which I'm very proud of!) so it'll be really fun to watch you chaps play 7 games I love back to back!

@unrandomsam What's wrong with the PAL version? Isn't it optimised?

3! 2! 1!

Hopefully I'll watch this, the Wii one was worth watching. Would join the races if I wasn't away from home just now.

What a fun way to spend a Saturday morning! I hope it will be on the Nintendo Life youtube channel.

Great plan, sound like an amazing stream ^o^
Hope I'll get the time for see a bit of NL racing in MarioKart history

@bofis From your comment I guess the american double dash box is classic black, the PAL one is red instead ^_^ I guess we could say we are even now since NA is the only one getting a red box with MK8 XP

release the arcade games on virtual console... now!

double dash is the best mario kart followed by 64

@bofis I believe that's the case that was included in the gamecube and double dash bundle back in the day

Great picture. There sure is a thing of beauty about game carts and box art that is just timeless. N64 version is still my favorite.

@ThomasBW84

Just to let you know in case you didn't, nintendo announced a price reduction on the top selling 3DS games including Mario Kart 7 for 29.99.

Oh man, you'll be streaming at the same time of the My Little Pony season finale! You guys are mean . I will check it before and after that of course. Also, I was actually planning to play MKWii this weekend, you know, since we are getting close to the end of its online life.

@ThomasBW84

Are you guys planning on uploading a recorded version of the stream for people who miss it live to watch?

Awesome, I too own all of these Mario Kart games (though I had four copies of Super Circuit for multiplayer).

@Rosalina Word.

@ReigningSemtex @bofis I seem to recall purchasing the game by itself and it coming in a red box. The copy I have now is the bundled version that came with the Zelda Collector's Edition disc and that's black.

A brilliant idea, always loved Mario Kart, especially Mario Kart 64.

Looking forward to this. Just scoffing some lunch first

@unrandomsam
Super Mario Kart's PAL version has better turning mechanics, trust me fast enough speed can be made on this beast, just need to use the right characters. There will be some great action there this August on the twitch channel at the World Championships.

@SamiCetinSMK 's opinion is appreciated and respected when it comes to MK so think that shuts down that argument

@KevTastic84 It is fair that some still prefer NTSC over PAL and that's cool. There are some mechanics that are good on NTSC, but mainly it is more forgiving on some off road sections. Some of the water tracks in particular make a difference. We did try an NTSC tournament in the 2012 championships as an extra special due to the 20th anniversary, the zoom starts were awful in the Time Trial one try, i didn't participate in that, but it was hilarious to watch

@SamiCertinSMK I understand the US uses NTSC as a standard. Is Pal mainly just Europe? I assume the Japanese also have NTSC standard. It doens't matter in later generation consoles i guess. But back then it was a big deal. A world without black borders lol. Dare to dream.