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Kid Friendly Gaming

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a kid friendly racing game. Many are big turn offs with sexual, and violent usage.
The various levels,and terrain, are fun to explore, with simpler navigation. Each area brings gamers new, and exciting obstacle challenges. Users can chose which character they would like to be. Adding a special pack, sold separately, gives players a feeling of riding one of these cars. A unique factor when a competitor goes off track they can go through water, and sand.
If I remember correctly, depending where you land you'll notice the slowing of your racer. In water you'll see bubbles.
Both a con and a helper is to race against the program. In the bad it often wins, but in the good you can gain awareness on how the track goes, learning to avoid most problems, and use your tools to win!

Great Fun with Kids

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A great game to play with your children. Older platform is not a barrier to fun.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Greatest game ever invented? The answer to that question, sir or madam, is YES. Seriously, I lost my virginity to this game. It was a bet...that's all I'll say about that.

"I'm the best!!" -Toad

I love it!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

THis is the best game ever. I am very competitive in this game. Yoshi rocks! Keep those blue shells coming ;)

The highly-elusive perfect 10!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After checking GameSpot's (author's note: this was originally posted exclusively on GameSpot.com) and a few user reviews, I absolutely had to throw my two cents in. I couldn't help but laugh when I read the introduction of "Even with all its bells and whistles, Mario Kart 64 is very likely to disappoint you after about a week."

When I picked up this game initially, my thoughts were "SWEET! A new Super Mario Kart!" I, unfortunately, never had an SNES of my own, so my fixes came in the form of time at my friend's house.

This game is absolutely spectacular in every way. Yes, I do feel that it could benefit from maybe a higher difficulty level and there is also the fact that it's possible to clinch a Gold medal in a circuit (4 races) after finishing in the top spot in each of the first three races. However, other than these minor spots, I find it to be flawless. Everything from the graphics to the sound to the features are great. There is also a great amount of multiplayer available in this, with not only the up to four player split-screen, but the track ghosts as well. Track ghosts are saved data of your best race (single player only) on a course. The game saves not only your time but your entire race. When you race against your ghost, you can actually compare yourself second-by-second on the tracks and this also helps you to analyze spots and what you did to help you become a better racer.

The items are what really make multiplayer fun, though. I've had many a time where I have something such as a ghost (which lets you steal and item and makes you invisible/invincible) while my friend had a lightning bolt (shrinks all opponents) and it's a quick reaction race to see who can get their item deployed first. To me, however, there is nothing more satisfying than hitting your opponent (especially if it's a friend instead of the computer) with a green shell (a shell that fires straight out, as opposed to the red homing shells) as he's about to cross the finish line to win, not just the race, but the circuit as well. And, yes, I actually did that to a friend of mine. Talk about bragging rights.

Up to this point, I have kept (or at least tried to keep) retro-rating out of this review and I was considering dropping one of the five rankings to a 9 because I'm stingy with giving out perfect 10's. If I had rated this game when it first came out, it would probably be rated somewhere around 9.7 to 9.9. However, there is one reason, and one reason only, that I still own my N64 -- and that is to play Mario Kart 64 ... a decade later. (Note: I can't even say that about Zelda: OoT or GoldenEye.) That, in itself, I think warrants the move up to the perfect 10 rating. ... I guess this pretty much means that I'll have to give Super Mario Kart a 10 as well. I guess we'll see when I finally get it on Virtual Console. (For those of you who ask "Virtual Console? Why" Read: paragraph 2.)

Overall: 10
Gameplay: 10
Graphics: 10
Sound: 10
Value: 10
Tilt: 10

For anyone!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game can keep you busy all day with excitement and fun! It's even better when you play with other people. It's great whether your playing with your friends or family. Challenge them with different characters and roads. This game is for anyone, any age, they will enjoy it, I guarantee you will too!

MK64

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

MK64 very good game and in very good conditions. Me and my son are having a lot of fun with this game. I recommend this game.

NEVER GETS OLD 9.5 OUT OF 10

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was the first real game I ever played along with the first I ever owned. Despite the fact that I've grown out of many kids games and spend my time focused on M-rated games with a lot of violence or sexual themes, this is one of those games I most definitely have not grown out of. I love the tracks, the weapons, the characters(Yoshi's my favorite), and simplely how much fun this game still delivers to this very day. The replay value is endless, and multiplayer is still very engaging(It's always fun to humiliate your friends at this game). This game is what got me started on games and it will continue to be one of my most memorable games in my life as a gamer.

Great game overall.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It has spawned such classic levels (as I recall) such as Luigi's Circuit, Moo Moo Farm, Frappe's Snowland, Toad's Turnpike, Koopa Troopa Beach, Banshee Highway, Bowser's (infamous) Castle, Wario's Stadium and the ridiculously long and bright track, Rainbow Road, which has spawned at LEAST 5 different versions throughout the series!

My all-time favorite level in the game is actually Sherbet Land. It's filled with ice and is just fun to cruise through! And the penguins that you can run into are so cute!

The playable characters are your basic eight: Mario (balance), Luigi (balanced), Princess Peach (lightweight), Toad (lightweight), Yoshi (advanced), Donkey Kong (heavyweight), Wario (heavyweight) and Bowser (the heavi"est"weight).

This game is very, VERY easy to just pick up and play with friends. The controls are simple as all get out and the characters look pretty cool, for a N64 game. The sounds they make are cool too!

If you want something that 4 guys (and/or girls) can enjoy, this is the right move!

* PROS *
-Bright, colorful boards.
-Addicting sound effects.
-Semi-interesting characters.
-Fun tracks.
-4-Way BATTLE. Nuff said.
-8 Semi-unique characters

* CONS *
-Sound comes through in 1-player or 2-player mode, but fails to when playing with 2 or 3 friends
-16 levels just isn't enough to satisfy the average gamer's thirst
-The music can be annoying/nauseating to some
-When you're in 1st, you get crappy items. When you're last, you get the best ones, usually landing you in 1st/2nd/3rd

Cons aside, I spent countless hours with friends that I cherished playing this game. It will bring smiles to your faces for months to come. If you like this and own a Nintendo DS or a DS Lite (shame on ALL of you who don't!), then I totally recommend Mario Kart DS. More levels and more mayhem. Did I mention even more characters?!

4 stars.

Mario kart 64 rules!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wow by the look on the price on amazon this game is like almost 30 bucks but I got this game at block busters used like new for 6 bucks damn. This game was so fun that anytime I play this game I don't even realize the hours I spent playing it. I love the levels especially toads turnpike They also made the weapons more useful than the super NES version and the battle mode scene for 2 to 4 players was more fun with the obstacle mazes to hide from your enimies and even the levels were awesome too. This is truly an awesome fun game. Any owner of an N64 should own this game.

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