Does Super Mario Kart Hold Up?

i really like super mario kart but the boo item in grand prix would bring this game very down.

I played the hell out of this game more than any on the SNES. Probably Street Fighter 2 second.

Super mario kart may not be the best msrio Kary game and it may have not aged well super mario kart is still a fun and enjoyable game I would only play super mario kart only if I'm bored or I got nothing else to do I rather play super mario kart instead being bored to death

Actually the worst is super circuit

The Boo wasn't in Grand Prix because of how the CPU items worked.

I remember when this game came out, I was 8 years old and my friends and I played this for hours. Was a favorite.

Super Mario kart controls aren’t limited. They’re exactly what you’ve got in a real go kart , you can turn left or you can turn right and if you’re screaming on the gas the whole time ur gonna spin out

Idk how people say “this game doesn’t hold up” I think it’s the best one if you want a high skill floor. Like you can’t be a scrub and beat special cup 100 cc nonetheless 150cc.

It always creeped me out that Yoshi's model in this game consistently has his tongue sticking out, it looks like he is in pain.

The first Super Mario Kart game is still fun to play. To me I like it more than the other Mario Kart games. I really like that the question blocks are on the floor and now in front of you. To me it's gets in the way because the CPU will get 2 questions blocks while you behind them. That never happen to me with the SNES Mario Kart

I am the Princess! ❤❤

You would think that playing on this would be difficult and annoying.

While showing the best-most comfortable video game controller ever created.

I question the age of anyone who says the OG Mario Kart is the worst or that it doesn't hold up. OG MK is still Great

I’m getting tired of the ‘it didn’t age well’ trope.
If it was good then, then it’s good now!

Super Mario Kart is still the best pure DRIVING experience in Mario Kart history. It feels TIGHT and responsive. Everything else feels super loose and, well, arcadey.

I still think that snes mk still is a fun game to play! and it was my first game being born in 1992

I’d love another Mode 7 style Mario Kart game.

DK Jr. was chosen because was the 10th anniversary of his game.

Same reason R.O.B. was added to MKDS. It was his 20th anniversary.

Super mario kart is the only mario kart game i can play right now cuz it’s the only free mario kart game 😢

It's the first and it shows. It's not horrible but it has aged badly due to hardware limitations.

After trudging through a sea of folks parroting the same negative opinions on this game, it's refreshing to see someone actually give this game a fair shot, no less deride enjoyment out of it! SMK is truly a great game to play with deceptively fast-paced action, an engagingly high skill-ceiling and super rewarding to master. Yes, it takes time to get used to due to how drastically different it is, but its combination of uniqueness, challenge, and simply being so damn fun to play (seriously, once you master the drifting and start blazing through courses, you get a rush like no other!) go a long way in separating itself from the pack and make it a title worth investing in, even today!

God I love Super Mario Kart. And I enjoyed your video. Thank you for uploading this!

also vanilla lake sucks lol

It's was incredible. Hours and hours of perfecting the tracks with a friend. Got more use out of this game more than any other

Let me power solide to the win 😅

Donkey Kong and junior are two of Nintendo's oldest ip's. They were introduced long before the release of this game. Hell, Donkey Kong is what made Nintendo in the early 80's.

I still hate super Mario kart. It’s my least favorite. Not that it’s a bad game, but it’s a bad game for me. It’s just too infuriating to play

I fucking LOVE THIS GAME like adults loved Corey Haim behind the scenes on Lucas

The first Mario Kart is the WORST Mario Kart!

But man does it have some iconic music!

I played this for the first time when it arrived on NSO and from a dev perspective I'm deeply impressed by how many techniques they had to use to make this game possible in the first place, seriously its nuts. But imma be honest here in regards to visuals, controls and obstacles I think this game is an absolute stinker (definitely use the CRT shader, otherwise the game looks so messy). Outside of its legacy I really didnt enjoy it. I happily play it over MK64, tho that isnt saying much...

DK Jr got in bc his white shirt made him stand out more against the brown colors of the Choco Island stages than DK would have.

The boo ear probably not in the GP mode so that the unobtainable items would stay that way.

I hope I’m not too late but, I think the reason the ghost was exclusive is because there could be a chance you get one of the unattainable items? I hope you see this! Love the vids 🙂

I am so glad that I'm not the only one who really enjoys this game!

whats up with captain falcon and getting replaced by some other nintendo franchise? first it happened with mario kart then with smash bros. no wonder he never gets anymore games

Honestly I’d say the weakest mario kart games wouldn’t really be smk. Tour, arcade gp vr & home circuit seem like weaker games. Tour is tour, enough said. Arcade gp vr from what I heard is a very basic experience & home circuit is extreamly difficult to get a great experience out of if your in a small room/ cramped room.

the original mario kart has the best battle mode even by todays standards if you ask me.
The slide, red shell, ,scale of casted items, and hop physics have yet to be replicated and it makes a super dynamic play space

"imagine if it was like this in mario kart 8" [it's like that in mario kart 8]

The only reason I play this game is to play a Mario kart with no blue shell

Can you make a mario kart and Mario party retrospective? Please 😅

When Super Mario Kart came out most other kids from my neighborhood and school were transitioning from NES to SNES and Sega Genesis. Yes there were some cool arcade racing games at the time, but for home consoles it was F-Zero and then Mario Kart that kind of impressed most kids at the time as there wasn't anything like those 2 games on home consoles. I got to play it first because my neighbor got it for Christmas and we all on our neighborhood wanted to borrow the game for the weekend. So my sister ended up getting it for her birthday and other neighbors got it too as we were filling awkward asking to borrow the game every other weekend :D . The game was appealing for a lot of people at the time. I also feel this first entry was a true Kart racing game and also felt that to win you needed to improve on your racing skills as a player rather than relaying on the items which was seen as a layer of fun that would allow the game to stay more competitive when playing against more experienced players. It's multiplayer aspect made it very popular at the time for parties and other gatherings. This game was so memorable because it was so unique for it's time. The soundtracks for this game also were so memorable too. This and Mario Bros 3 are the games I played the most as a kid. I would never get bore of them. Pure joy this game is!

Great video, but I want to point something out.
Yeah, Super Nintendo cartridges can get to 6MB in size. But those types of cartridges were not available in the first years of the console's lifespan and we're also expensive.
Super Mario Kart is an early SNES game and, similarly to Super Mario World, space limit was a problem. Late NES games, like Super Mario Bros 3, could easily nab 300kb of memory. Early SNES games only had about 100~200kb more of space to use, while having to look better and being bigger

Nice video! Glad I came across it, as last night, my friends and I were having a difficult time deciding whether this or Super Circuit was better (or less worse).

For me, the racing game of the SNES is F-Zero. (Stunt Race lmao) Maintaining speed and managing health is more engaging to me than hoping for an item to win you the game.

I never really liked Mario cart. I only played the Wii version and didn’t like it so never bought any future games.

Back when I first got this game, I developed this theory that the player could unlock the items used only by the CPUs (Bowser's fireball, Yoshi's egg, Toad and Toadstool's poison mushroom) after unlocking 150 CC Special Cup. It took me a week or so to get gold in all the 150 CC cups, and I was ecstatic when I finally completed the 150 CC Special Cup. Unfortunately, after the credits rolled, the CPU items were still inaccessible. I was bummed, to say the least. I did, however, find out later that you can have your character drive, permanently, under the effects of the poison mushroom. There were a couple of ways to do it. One involved pressing a combination of button before selecting your character on the character select screen, and the other involved simply unplugging the SNES controller from the player one side and inserting it into the player two side. It was a shocked discovery! I then proceeded to get run over by the CPU racers... a lot. Haha.

Great game for it’s time, but Mario kart is one of those franchises that just works best in 3d.

yes

It runs better on an actual SNES

While this one can still be fun with a friend, and I think the flat tracks have a certain charm to them that's lost in 3D, I personally find it pretty difficult to go back to, especially with Super Circuit as a much better take on the same idea... (Super Circuit is underrated AF)

Hey, at least it controls a little better then super circuit