Super Mario Kart

a.k.a. スーパーマリオカート

published by Nintendo in 1992-08-27, developed by Nintendo EAD, running on Super Nintendo
type: racing/driving
genre: Mario universe
series: Mario, Mario Kart
perspective: 3rd person
player options: split-screen
languages: eng jpn
4.5/5

Official description

A collection of Super Mario characters, including Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Peach, Bowser and Donkey Kong Jr., are out to win the Super Mario Kart championship. Using Mode 7 scalling, the first true kart game on the SNES has you collecting coins to boost your speed while using shells and bananas to stop others on the track.

# 2017-07-08 08:23:18 - official description

Comment

One of the best racing games on the SNES. Has drift out technology built in. All round good game and must have for SNES.

No other racing game, not even Mario Kart 64, has come close to Super Mario Kart in terms of pure gameplay, fun, challenge, and longevity. The one-player game gave us a variety of courses that become increasingly more difficult the farther you progress. Track obstacles include ice, deep water, oil slicks, thwomps, and even areas where you can fall off the edge! And let's not forget how you could pick up and use various weapons to knock out the other racers, and that they could do that to you, too!
The two-player battle mode, in which players try to knock each other's balloons off, is probably the single best two-player game ever made. Mario Kart also has excellent play control and high speed Mode 7 graphics.

Spiez - # 2003-06-02 18:00:56

Technical specs

hardware: SNES Classic,
display: raster

Authors / Staff

management

Hiroshi Yamauchi (executive producer)
Shigeru Miyamoto (producer)

design

Tadashi Sugiyama (cg design)

coding

Hajime Yajima (programmer)
Kenji Yamamoto (programmer)
Masato Kimura (programmer)

audio

Soyo Oka (Music Composer)

other

Naoki Mori (cg deisgn)

External reviews (10) - average: 95.5% - median: 95.5%

review sourceissuedatescore
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) 085-199uk1331992-1296/10096%
C&VG (Computer & Video Games) 085-199uk1501994-0592/10092%
Consoles + (1-155)fr141992-1195/10095%
Joypad 1-72fr131992-1098/10098%
Joypad 1-72fr151992-1296/10096%
Joystickfr311992-1095/10095%
Nintendo Magazine System (UK)uk11992-1092/10092%
Nintendo Magazine System (UK)uk41993-0195/10095%
Player Onefr271993-0196/10096%
Ultra Playerfr361996-076/6100%

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