The Mario Kart series totals fourteen games, with six on home consoles, three on handheld consoles, four arcade games co-developed with Namco, and one for mobile phones.
The series was launched in 1992 with Super Mario Kart on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to critical and commercial success.
It features characters and courses mostly from the Mario series as well as other gaming franchises such as The Legend of Zelda, Animal Crossing, F-Zero, and Splatoon. Players compete in go-kart races while using various power-up items. While multiplayer is no longer considered particularly groundbreaking in a post-Fortnite world, the ever-expanding genre of battle royale games owes a debt to the multiplayer games that came before them.Mario Kart is a series of kart racing games and a spin-off Mario franchise developed and published by Nintendo. Game developers had an entire console generation to prepare and when Nintendo released the Gamecube in 2001, they bombarded the system with games that elevated the multiplayer genre. Nintendo capitalized on this by introducing games unencumbered by the traditional half-screen gameplay of competitors like Playstation and Sega Saturn.īy the next generation of consoles, the four-player multiplayer was no longer a gimmick.
What many thought was a gimmick that would inconvenience those with small televisions, quickly grew into one of the system’s most beloved features. I’m talking, of course, about Nintendo 64’s optimization for four-player gameplay. At the time, however, the gaming community wasn’t sure what to make of the new console’s most unique feature. They knew what to expect and the promise of Mario and Link rendered in three dimensions helped launch the Nintendo 64 to critical acclaim and commercial success. North American Nintendo fans, after months of watching their Japanese counterparts play the company’s newly-released console, grew giddy with anticipation as the stateside release drew close.
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