WedSNESday: Let's Play Super Mario Kart
5It's WedSNESday! Let's Play Super Mario Kart, the Super Nintendo racing game that kickstarted a spinoff dynasty, and one of the most successful side-games in the Mario Brothers franchise.
In this episode:
Luke dons the mushroom hat of everyone's favorite Mushroom Kingdom retainer, Toad himself - fast on his feet, and even faster with a 50cc go-kart under his butt.
Super Mario Kart was released in 1992 as a spinoff series to the already block-busting (No pun intended) Super Mario Bros. franchise, taking the iconic plumber duo and its supporting cast, including popular classic outliers like Donkey Kong, and dropping them into a fast-paced go-karting racing game. It was a wild success, selling 8.76 million copies worldwide during its original run, making it the 4th best selling SNES game of all time.
It was a technologically innovative title, iterating on its racing predecessor, F-Zero, and making prodigious use of the SNES's Mode 7 scanline pixel rotation graphics effect together with 2D environmental hazards, creating the illusion of 3D on a system that was incapable of rendering vector graphics.
WedSNESday is the Level 0 NPCs weekly series where we play one older game for one episode, just to relive the nostalgia and maybe make your hump day just a little bit more fun.
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