Super Mario Kart: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

Due to technological limits, older driving games felt little like racing on a track and more like watching the track twist below you as other racers materialized or vanished at whim. In 1990, ''[[F-Zero]]'' changed everything with the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 hardware, finally creating a realistic system with a 3D track and real racers.

* [[Bottomless Pits]]: In the Ghost Valley tracks and Rainbow Road. Lakitu will fish racers who fall down for the price of two coins.

* [[Car Fu]]: heavier karts can bully lighter ones, especially if one racer has been shrunk or is using a Star.

* [[First Installment Weirdness]]: Despite the claims of [[Strictly Formula]] regarding the rest of the series, Super was a somewhat different beast compared to the formula that 64 would create; AI karts don't use item box power-ups and have their own signature abilities ''that they can use at will'', the deck is nowhere near as stacked against you if you're ahead, there's a coin = speed boost mechanic that wouldn't be touched upon again until Super Circuit and 7, and the Blue Shell didn't exist (Which the European VC release trailer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzbsW-HFrBI mercilessly lampshades].) Also there are twenty tracks with five laps rather than sixteen tracks with three laps.

** The steering mechanics in this game are crippled/slippery/oversensitive and every player-controlled kart will slide all over the place due to having little to no sense of traction. Requiring very delicate input just to stay on the road and not end up hitting the walls or falling off.