20 years holy crap. I remember playing this in the school cafeteria with the crew, was some good gaming

I never took to 7 like I did to this one. Couldn't really tell you why.

I miss how they ditched the more unique character karts for the generic mix and match parts now. Let me race in a backhoe again you cowards!

My favorite Mario Kart game. Shout outs to CTGP Nitro, a romhack that keeps the entire original game intact, but optionally adds dozens of custom tracks.

Remember having multiple full local sessions going while sitting outside of Best Buy waiting for the Wii launch. The overnight DS sessions ended up being more fun than the Wii launch titles

I remember it looking better than this screenshot shows

While you are not wrong, this news displeases me greatly.

This is my second favorite Mk game after the original one. I played a lot online. We organized matches in the IRC. At some point I sold my cart and played with a flash cart and a hacked ROM to play in tracks not available in the legit game. Some players went crazy when they saw it lol

I traded my copy of Pokemon Fire Red with a bunch of legitimate shinies to my buddy for this game back in middle school. Worthwhile trade.

I loved this level of graphics. Enough for cool 3D stuff that could be nice and smooth, but no expectations for or effort spent on absurd levels of hyper-realism

i always used peach and apparently she has the worst kart

MKDS had the best soundtrack, hands down.

Also the reason I main Daisy on 8 😄

Mario Kart 64 best straight up

I didn't like MKDS very much.

I like how they got rid of the left-right bullshit on drifting after it. It's just annoying and achieves nothing. And it's especially bad having to do that on a d-pad.

I also think Wii is the one that really started balancing items a lot more fairly, though 7 and 8 refined it even more.

Was going to downvote this, because i hate those "you're old, feel it! more! MORE! FEEL MORE OLD!" posts.

But then i changed my mind. You know what? Time for the next generation to start feeling the pain. Have fun genZ. or milenials or whatever.

Relevant Mastodon post I saw earlier.

Ah, the memories of playing Mario Kart with my friends... Those party's where fun.

I also miss those times where we could bootup a game and play splitscreen. I had an old PC back then which my father upgraded once in a while with parts he got gifted. We didn't have the money to buy a good PC ourself.

Man what a fun using project64. Me and the guys played Conker's Bad fur Day so much!

Wii was great too but yeah 7 missed all the marks.