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"Mario Kart"

If you hop on over to here:

http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/ downloads/default.asp? subsectionid=196&articleid=65389&pagetype=2

You'll notice that Gamesradar have a video up of a full race on Mario Kart.

I watched it last night and I was dissapointed, though I still know its going to be great fun.

It doesn't look like much has changed from previous Mario Kart outings, apart from the two riders in one kart thing. In the video you'll see Luigi go up close sometimes and whack another player, things like this are going to make it better but still one major thing has gone.

That is speed. Where the hell has the speed gone? Ok, I know the characters now have to ride on self-made Carnival floats but doesn't mean they can't stick in *insert large number here*cc engines. It looks like it plays very slow which is a shame, maybe this is to aid the kart character switching thing or something, I don't know.

Another thing I noticed which was new to me was the way in which a 'Special' weapon is gained. In the video Mario and Luigi were in the kart and so the special was those fireball things which bounced around like crazy nits. So I don't think I'll be wrong in saying people like Donkey & Diddy Kong will have their own Special move, as will the other characters.

It'll be great none the less and I can't wait to play the thing. Oh god, I've just imagined them sticking Pokemon characters in Mario Kart :-S or creating a new game completely, Pokemon Kart. eeeeeek. No matter how much the Pokemon games rule, I wouldn't want that.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> The SNES version rocked. Special Cup wasn't that hard, you just needed
> to practice it. I want them to bring back the Ghost Houses. Like the
> SNES Mushroom Cup one. On 150cc I could bomb round there so fast it
> was unreal. And the feather deserves a comeback.


Ghost Valley1. Playing it on the GBA right now. it soooooooooo fast. Its sooo much better than the N64 version its unreal.

Er-no did indeed break the record as i saw the vid he made.

I also spent countless hours trying to break it! oh the agony and wasted time! :( I did get 0'50''08 though which i thought was pretty damn good!

DeadMetal wrote:
> Do remember how long it took you?

Well it was a world record - Guiness Book of Records 1997 I believe.

Do remember how long it took you?

DeadMetal wrote:
> er-no wrote:
> The SNES version rocked. As did the GBA.
>
> I was the Mario Kart King for bother those versions. Acquiring a
> world
> record in one and an unbeatable time in the other.
>
> World Record?
>
> On which one was that on?

Mario Circuit - SNES

And I had a video up of my crazy time for the GBA one. Don't have it no more though, maybe someone on here still does.

er-no wrote:
> The SNES version rocked. As did the GBA.
>
> I was the Mario Kart King for bother those versions. Acquiring a world
> record in one and an unbeatable time in the other.

World Record?

On which one was that on?

The SNES version rocked. As did the GBA.

I was the Mario Kart King for bother those versions. Acquiring a world record in one and an unbeatable time in the other.

The SNES version rocked. Special Cup wasn't that hard, you just needed to practice it. I want them to bring back the Ghost Houses. Like the SNES Mushroom Cup one. On 150cc I could bomb round there so fast it was unreal. And the feather deserves a comeback.

The '64 version was awesome too, Skyscraper multiplayer level is one of the best ever designed...

*drifts into a reverie*

Dunno if anyone has said this already but maybe they were racing it on 50cc mode or something?

Wait until you get 250cc mode, then start moaning at it.

Tennis's singleplayer was rubbish, multiplayer rocked my banana though.

Never played golf.