In anticipation of what is reported to be an amazing sequel, Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U, I am in the mood to write a review of Mario Kart 64 , an amazing game made by the people who probably have made the most amazing games of all time, and by that I mean the spookily brilliant minds at Nintendo .

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Mario Kart 64 is by far the best kart racer playable on vizzed, which makes it a leading contender for one of the best racing games overall on here. I know that the PlayStation has some kart racers, but chances are they are pale imitations. PlayStation games often have digital directional control which would make a racing game less precise , and even if a play station racer had precise controls the nintendo 64 is by far the more powerful system, so it's a safe bet that this is the best 1, with the possible exception of diddy kong racing. But I will discuss the relative merits of Diddy Kong later in the review, for now I want to get to an introduction section where I describe for the neophytes what the heck Mario Kart 64 is, and then I will share my wise opinions about the merits of Mario Kart broken into categories the way they love it done in vizzed. You're welcome for organizing my review in such a wonderful way for you, if you wanna know just how good the sound and music are you can totally skip down to that section of the review and skip everything else couldn't you?

Back in the Super Nintendo days, Nintendo wanted to take advantage of mode 7 graphics which is a pretty spiffy technical accomplishment on the 16 bit platform. Basically in mode 7 traffic games the playfield looks kinda like a pixelated floor that is all flat. By having this floor zoom at the camera and rotate at high speeds they were able to make a pretty good racing game, and choosing to make it a cart racer in which Mario and the gang can throw shells at each other and engage in other antics they basically invented the cart racer genre and made one of the most fun racing games ever. It didn't hurt that they included a multiplayer split screen mode and the ridiculously fun battle mode.

Moving forward a few years, when Nintendo came out with the Nintendo 64 an awesome system with the capability of producing amazing 3 dimensional graphics and things the wisely decided to use the system's power to make an amazing sequel to Mario Kart. The result is the most crazy fun 4 player experience people had ever seen in a racing game.

Graphics
The graphics in Mario Kart are really good. The courses are rendered in 3d and you can see of into the distance really well. Interestingly all the racers are represented in the two-dimensional sprites. Lucky for the gamers the races all look good perhaps even better than they would have liked it in 3d polygons. By today's standards the presentation maybe a bit dated but not in a way that would detract from the experience in a huge way. The colors are all bright and the tracks are varied and have very creative visual presentations to them ranging from mountains to farm 2 dirt tracks pavement all sorts of textures and things. Getting back to that Diddy Kong Racing comparison, Diddy Kong pulled off 3-dimensional racers quite well and often had crazy dinosaurs and other cool things on the tracks so graphically Diddy Kong may have surpassed Mario Kart.

Sound
Music in Mario Kart is really good. ?A lot of the tunes are really memorable , one of my favorites is the music they play at Toad's Turnpike, im they use lots of synthesized sounds to create the music and it just sounds amazing and I really like it the sound effects of really good things appropriately sound when they explode or when you spin out the only complaint I really have with the sound is when you get into four Player mode sometimes I feel like all the different competing engine noises and stuff make music and possible as if they prioritize the sound effects of having good music because there's just so much sound happening all at once its like the Nintendo 64 couldn't handle it all but in one player mode the sound is great. Also if you have 4 people in the room playing the game this sound not handling all that isn't a huge problem because you're probably have people yelling at each other and they won't I'll be listening closely with music anyway we'll day?

Addictiveness
Mario Kart is highly addictive particularly if you have multiple people to play very enjoyable to use the item is like the red shells to take out your friends and you drag them into oblivion the one player mode is also pretty addictive because its challenges of the different difficulty settings brings you back to the same tracks over and over to to unlock the additional things by beating the courses and then beating them on the higher engine settings which is also kind of this difficulties so you might start on the easy mode be all the tracks and then with your new skills might go to the higher difficulty level and take them all on again. By the time you're done doing all this you'll look at the clock and be like oh my gosh I've been planning this for weeks and you'll be like well it'll be amazing you will be addicted to your friends in the game go battle mode with him and just be playing for every like years and years and years and then my a car date will be coming out your disease later and you'll still be obsessed with this game basically you'll be writing reviews decades from now about how good this game ice.

Story
Okay the story of my a mario kart kind of sucks. ?On the positive side you probably didn't play Mario Kart because you were hoping for a great story, but Nintendo could have thrown one in any way and the fact that they didn't kind of bothers me , maybe Mario and Peach could be having like relationship troubles and then maybe there could be like a love triangle with Luigi and then maybe told could like give bad advice and they could be like comedic romantic comedy crap happening all the time but no Nintendo didn't want to have it me a love triangle of a romantic comedy and so now I have to say you miss an opportunity there.

Depth
This game is pretty deep I mean there's all the different tracks four different cup there's the different difficulty settings and then the mirror difficulty setting where everything is backwards all together it has all the Dept you can hope for a racing game tons of track of different game modes great time trials battle mode is the GP where you're racing against tons of other computer people trying to kill you its really fun and be so I'm going to be so there.

Difficulty
Who came to get pretty difficult add on the hardest setting you really have to both race well and use items strategically if you mess up if you drive off the track or something the game will punish you computer is dishes luckily there's an easier difficulty setting where is much more forgiving if you're just a casual game and you just want to chill out play have fun I recommend the easy difficulty in back even if you're a hardcore gamer you might want to stick with the easy difficulty for awhile you know you relax into it then by the time you see him at all he's emailed you have even more refined skills that you can apply have a better chance at getting first place when you do the higher difficulty like work your way up that way 30d then go harder that's what I say that's what I always say that for my parents and that's what I'm passing on to you my wisdom my brain it is yours.

In summarium:
To summarize my enthusiasm for this great game I just want to tell you a story about how when I was little I used to play this game and not at the music of this game isn't great because the music is great but what I used to do as I use to turn on the radio Tom Leykis was the same talk radio or maybe listening to stories like I'm Batman on record release city or Batman fighting me a twin and everything it's great just feel like to now Dylan out and play this game in like it's kind of like a zen-like meditation thing where you just play the game listen to this thing at the same time and you can just play for hours cuz this game is that amazing and you're liking them passing along this knowledge to you that you can just play this game and be amazed by it and you can pay for ours also with net play on this site you can play online on the internet with other people so I heard you to get on that play play this the times of other people and if you like woe this game is amazing with Diddy Kong Racing the way they have you unlock a tracks and everything and the emphasis on the story mode where you have to read the story about do i unlock tracks for multiplayer its not like this when you can just plug in and play and have lots of fun it's kind of a pain in the butt like Diddy Kong is kinda broken to be played online here on this website so I would highly recommend you focus your efforts on Mario Kart have fun with your friend online and you can tell them I sent you.

Great review, It was very detailed and a lot of fun to read.
There are a few tips I would give you.

It is a little easier to read when you have a few spaces between each category.And You call CTR a pale imitations? No no no, that game is better then Mario kart 64 imo. But yeah, 1.2.3 smurfs sucked. The lego racing game was great tough (All for the PS1) But we all have opinions It would be cool if you deleted the question marks. That happens when you edit here on vizzed, very annoying.

Pretty much what imamonster said, very good and long review, but hard to read.
Maybe add some spacing, or some columns of some sort, something like:

Graphics
Back in the Super Nintendo days, Nintendo wanted to take advantage of mode 7 graphics which is a pretty spiffy technical accomplishment on the 16 bit platform blah blah blah

Something like that would make it easier to read, making it a better review. Also, what's with all the question marks at the start of a sentence.

imamonster :

Thanks for the reply!!  But what is ctr?  If you clearly list the titles of the cart racing titles you think are similarly fun it would help not only me but future readers of the review (cuz then they can check em out too!)

Thanks again!!!

bsnowotter : The real name Is crash team racing, I thought everyone knew of it.

bsnowotter : This review is absolutely incredible! It has loads of depth, it's long and has lots of detail. Great job!