Super Mario Kart [Player's Choice]

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Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. The photos are of this exact cartridge — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

Super Mario Kart is where it all began. Developed by Nintendo EAD and released for the Super Nintendo in 1992, it is credited with inventing kart racing as a genre, and it did so with a style, charm and precision that still hold up decades later. Nintendo took the best-known faces of the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Toad, Koopa Troopa and Donkey Kong Jr., and dropped them behind the wheel, each kart with its own top speed, acceleration and handling, creating an entirely new kind of multiplayer experience that would go on to define competitive couch gaming for generations.

The game uses the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 graphics to give each track a pseudo-3D perspective that felt groundbreaking on the hardware of its day; reviewers at the time called the visuals breathtaking. Tracks drawn from Super Mario World locations each have their own personality and demand a different approach, from the gentle curves of Mario Circuit to the treacherous ice of Vanilla Lake, the mud bogs of Choco Island and the famous Rainbow Road. Mastering power slides and hops through tight corners, and learning the item game of shells, stars, lightning bolts, feathers and banana peels, gives Super Mario Kart a depth that casual players can enjoy while serious racers can sink their teeth into.

What really cemented Super Mario Kart as a classic was its two-player split-screen mode, which turns the map on the lower half of the single-player screen into a second racer's view. Battle Mode, in which each player starts with three balloons around their kart and the first to lose them all loses the match, became the stuff of playground legend. The game went on to sell 8.76 million units worldwide, making it the fourth best-selling game on the Super Nintendo.

This is the Player's Choice release, which carries a little extra history of its own. Nintendo introduced the Player's Choice label in 1996 for games that had sold a million units, reissuing them at a lower price, and Super Mario Kart earned its place in that line. It is a recognizable piece of Nintendo's commercial story, and a reminder of just how many living rooms this game reached.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game

Super Mario Kart is a racing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the first game of the Mario Kart series, as well as the game that sets precedents to the fictional kart racing genre. Part of this game is heavily based on Super Mario World in terms of graphics and overall theme. Using Mode 7 scaling, 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.

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