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Great in all aspects

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wow! This game is great! I've had it for for a couple years and I still enjoy it. The Musroom Cup, Star Cup etc. (in one player mode) is really fun and my brothers and I could never master one of the levels, which makes us want to play again and again to beat it. Then the other one player thing is time trial, where you choose a course to practice on while being timed. Then you have the two player mode. One option is Battle mode where you and another person get items from the game and battle, while still racing. Then you can also race against another person in a different two player mode. As you can this is a great game.

The Amazing Classic Kart Racer Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One word:classic.Super Mario Kart Has been a favorite game to me since it came out.With different modes like Time Trial and Mario GP (Grand Prix)It easily became the favorite game for America to play.You can choose from eight characters:Mario,Luigi,Princess,Bowser,Toad,Yoshi,Koopa Troopa and Donkey Kong Jr.My personal favorite was Luigi.In Time Trial you can pick races in the Star cup the Flower cup or the Mushroom Cup.Also in the GP you can choose from those cups.There is three modes to race in for the Grand Prix:50cc,100cc and 150cc but you unlock 150cc by beating the game.When you get trophys for beating 100cc you will get a secret cup.Dont be fooled the secret cup is very hard.When you get first place in the secret cup you will beat the game and unlock 150cc.Then once you beat 150cc only then will you be the greatest master of Super Mario Kart.So to end a long story the game is pure classic fun.

A GREAT GAME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

EXCELLENT!This game is the perfect game for Nes.I love driving all the courses and I love the cups,and the people you can drive! You can drive Mario,Luigi,Donkey Kong jr.,Yoshi,Toad,Bowser,Koopa Troopa,and Princess Toadstool(Peach). You can play a normal game or battle with friends!

LOVE THIS Game!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks!!! because you can choose from all your favorite characters and I love the wipe outs They rule I really enjoy the game every time I play!!!!!

If you have a SNES, you should own this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Super Mario Kart revolutionized racing games. It isnt realistic but it is the best racing game every made. It was ahead of its time. Nintendo hit the jackpot with this game. My friedn is buying an SNES cause of this game. GET IT AND HAVE FUN!

Characters everyone knows in a fun race

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best non-serious racing game for SNES! Pick from eight racers, Mario, Luigi, Toad, Bowser, Koopa, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and the Princess. Then pick your difficulty and one of three circuits that you want to race on. Each circuit has five racetracks, each is severely detailed from start to finish! The ghost houses have ghosts everywhere, Bowser's castle has thromps to come down and crush you! You can pick up items along the way, like mushrooms that give you a huge boost of speed, stars, which make you invisible, and shells that you fire at the other racers! Throughout the game you can even add to the fun by earning extra difficulties and an extra circuits with five new and cool racetracks like star road. The only downfall is that the game is quite dated, because it is for SNES, and there are versions for Gamecube, N64 and Gameboy Advance.

The best racing game on the Super Nintendo!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a brilliant game. I have had this game for 7 years and I'm still not bored with it. I think its even better than Mario Kart 64 because this has more challenge and excitment. Nice music and funny 2 player make this game so good, I couldn't think of a better racing game.

This one is definitely on my Top 10 list of all time!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's hard to think of where to begin in a review of a game as great as Super Mario Kart. Super Mario Kart was the first racing game of its type, and now there are a lot of games that have copies its formula, such as Looney Tunes Racing.

In Super Mario Kart, you can choose from many of the famous Nintendo mascots. They are: Mario, Luigi, Princess, Bowser, Donkey Kong Jr., Toad, Yoshi, and Koopa. Each of the racers are equipped with a go-cart, and they all have their own sets of strengths and weaknesses. For example, Toad has fast starts, but is weak and will get bumped around a lot. Bowser is big, so he has slow starts, but doesn't get bumped around that easily. And Mario doesn't have any major ups or downs, he's average in all aspects.

The trend that Super Mario Kart began in racing games is being able to use unlikely weapons such as turtle shells, bolts of lightning, banana peels, and more, against the other racers on the tracks. Each of these weapons have different effects. When a racer runs over a banana peel, or when a turtle shell hits them, they will spin out and come to a complete stop for a few seconds. Lightning causes all the players to shrink, which slows them down and makes them more vulnerable to being run over and flattened flatter than a pancake. Stars give the racer temporary invincibility, mushrooms allow for a short burst of speed, ghosts allow you to steal somebody else's weapon, and feathers will make you jump so high that Michael Jordan would even be jealous.

There are at least 20 tracks that are available to race on in Super Mario Kart. The tracks all have great variety. There are beach tracks, chilling ice tracks, normal dirt tracks, a road made of rainbow, haunted ghost tracks, and many more.

There are a few modes that are available in Super Mario Kart. First is the Mario Kart GP mode. This is the mode that you can race in a one-player game or a two-player game, in which you go up against several computer-controlled players. Once you complete a few laps and finish the race, the standings will come up. If you come in a good enough place overall, you have the chance of winning a bronze, silver, or gold trophy, and possibly opening up new tracks. That brings me to my next point.

In GP (Grand Prix) mode, there is a 50cc, 100cc, and a 150cc mode. 50cc is the easiest, with 100cc and 150cc getting progressively harder since the computers will get much faster. While racing in the GP mode, you can use the various weapons and powerups I described earlier, and you just need to come in first place if you can.

Next is the Time Trial option. In Time Trial, it's just you against the clock. When you complete a race, your overall time will be saved on a list of the best times if you were fast enough.

In the VS. mode, you and a friend can race against each other on any of the tracks in a two-player game. This is a good way to bring up a lot of trash talking.

Finally and best of all, is the Battle Mode. In Battle, you and somebody else (it's two-player, you can't go up against the computer in Battle Mode), go to one of four specially designed tracks and duke it out against each other using the turtle shells, bananas, stars, and more. Both you and your opponent have three balloons circling your go-cart. Every time you get hit, you will lose a balloon. The first player to lose all three of their balloons, is the loser.

Everything about Super Mario Kart is simply classic. The graphics are colorful and well-rendered. This was the first game to use the Mode 7 graphics chip, and it was definitely a plus. All the characters are well designed, and the tracks themselves look detailed for a 16-bit game. The sounds sound just like a Mario game should, which is different, but great nonetheless. The music is very catchy and classic. As for control, it's a cinch to make your racer/battler do anything that you need them to do, without any frustration included.

Super Mario Kart is simply one of the best video games ever made! It's one of those games that NEVER gets old no matter how much you play it and it's so fun that fun isn't a good enough word for it. Whether you like racing games or not, you will love Super Mario Kart! I'm not a huge fan of racing games and it's one of my 10, if not 5, favorite video games of all time!!

If you have a Super Nintendo and don't have Super Mario Kart yet, get this game now!! Your SNES collection isn't complete without it!

good game but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a fun game to play if you have some friends over but thats about it. They have only about 10 or so levels and eight characters. Over all a great game for its time but not a clasic

super mario kart

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

super mario kart is quite possibly one of the best games on the snes! It matches the playability of street fighter 2 turbo.If you can can get hold of this game i promise you will never get of it!

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