Mario Kart 64
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Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64
1996
Action, Party
Mario Kart 64 is the second main installment of the Mario Kart series. It is the first game in the series to use three-dimensional graphics, however, the characters and items in this game are still two-dimensional, pre-rendered sprites. The game offers two camera angles and three engine sizes: 50cc, 100cc and 150cc. Each kart has distinctive handling, acceleration and top speed capabilities. Shells that you fire at rival racers, Bananas that make them skid out and Lightning Bolts that make them small and very slow are just a few of the game's unique power-ups.
AKAs:
マリオカート64, 马里奥赛车64Mario Kart 64
1996
Action, Party
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Average Percentile: 54.38%
Every college student's favourite game, but I never got the appeal. It's aimed at people who can't play regular racing games (aka kids) because they suck at driving, so they have to resort to cheap tactics to win, like throwing fucking turtle shells at other cars to knock them out. The only boost that's acceptable to me in racing games is turbo. None of this "collect a coin and we'll transport you to the finish line via a magic fucking rainbow" nonsense.
26 Nov 2019
I still prefer the overall simplicity of this early Mario Kart iteration to the Red-Bull-and-Amphetamine-covered-with-Warheads aesthetic of later games in the series. This one at least creates the illusion that there was some skill involved. Figuring out the death jump shortcut in Rainbow Road is a formative childhood moment. But alas, the Blue Shell that launched a thousand tantrums.
04 Feb 2018
Given that I can still have a lot of fun with it, in 2023, specially with 3 or more friends, I give it a 100. It was part of my childhood, so take it with a grain of salt. But there are other old games I loved that have not resisted the test of time, so I think it deserves the grade.
08 Feb 2023
Super Mario Kart, one of the greatest head-to-head titles ever released for the cartridge systems, is back, this time for the Nintendo 64. There's a whole new set of courses, new racers, slick 3-D graphics, and most surprisingly, a four-player simultaneous play option. This should all be great news to Mario Kart fans, and in fact it is - sort of.
05 Jan 2021
Have to balance nostalgia with some realism here - I really loved this game on N64 and it really expanded things from the original, but the very next game Double Dash blows it out of the water in every imaginable category from play control to level design to aesthetics, making this one an immediate dinosaur.
28 Jan 2018
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マリオカート64, 马里奥赛车64
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