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"马里奥卡丁车64" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)

"Mario Kart R" -- Early pre-release title

"マリオカート64" -- Japanese Spelling

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races eight familiar faces, including Mario, Bowser and Yoshi, on four progressively tougher four-track circuits. Wide curves and gentle banks mark the Mushroom Cup tracks. Your commute gets notably tougher on the Flower Cup, though. The player will have to dodge semis rumbling on Toad's Turnpike and bounding boulders on fogbound Choco Mountain! Star Cup tracks range from the icy surfaces of Sherbet Land to the lava lakes of Bowser's Castle. The true test of karting competence, though, comes on the four tracks in Special Cup. Zip through the dark caves and green hillsides of Donkey Kong's Jungle Parkway, cling to the sheer cliffs of Yoshi Valley and hustle over haunted Banshee Boardwalk before tackling the longest track in the game: neon-lit Rainbow Road.The game offers two camera angles and three engine sizes: 50cc, 100cc and 150cc. You can gain even more speed by mastering the power slide technique or grabbing Super Star power-ups. Each kart has distinctive handling, acceleration and top speed capabilities. Light karts like Princess's smoothly steer through tight corners, but run the constant risk of getting flattened by heavy karts, like Donkey Kong's. 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.

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1001 Video Games

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Japanese version

MagiKoopa

Title change

Virtual console version

Awards

Electronic Gaming Monthly March 1997 (Issue #92) - Game of the Month

Retro Gamer September 2004 (Issue #8) – #80 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)



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Chris Martin Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64) on Mar 29, 2001 (1204) added(Nintendo 64) on Mar 29, 2001

The N64 version ofappears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.If you complete all the tracks in the 150cc class, the game opens up new tracks. The new tracks are actually reverse images of the original set.Inin the Japanese version lots of the signs are take offs of brands, the only one apparent in the western version is the Koopa Air (Nike Air), but one interesting one is a sign that says MarioBro which was changed to Mario Bros. This of course was originally a takeoff of Marlboro cigarettes.Originally, MagiKoopa (an enemy from Super Mario World ) was intended to be one of the racers. However, he was later replaced by Donkey Kong before the game was released. You can still see MagiKoopa in some of the earliest screenshots of the game (back when it was still calledThe game was originally going to be calledbut was changed because Nintendo felt it was to similar to Sega's upcoming racing game Sonic R For the Wii Virtual Console version of, the Ghost Trial Data, (which allowed players to race against a ghost kart of their best times), has been disabled.