Remember when all of your problems could be solved by throwing down a banana peel, causing your opponent to comically spin out behind you, leading you to victory and temporarily broken friendships? Well that was just Mario Kart, and now youâre an adult, but could it still work in real life?
In Tokyo, you can dress up as Mario or Luigi or Wario or whatever Mario Kart character you desire (Toad is clearly the best Mario Kart character and has been for 25 years) and drive the streets in a real go-kart that looks very similar to what appears in the game. You can do this without a helmet and seat belt, too,âŚ
Do you like Canada? Is that even a question? Do you like karting? Time to log on to MapleMingle.gov or get a passport, because thereâs a new speedway opening next year that looks like it will let you live out your Mario Kart dreams in the real world.
As someone who has turned a car into a video game controller before, I feel that Iâm completely qualified to say that this is way better than the crude, 8-bit era hack I cobbled together to play Pole Position with a Lancia and an Atari. What Adam Ringwood and his friends did with a Chevrolet Volt and a tiny, cheap-assâŚ
By now you've probably seen the delightful Japanese Super Mario Bros. ad for the Mercedes-Benz GLA. (If you haven't, you need to watch it.) But Mario and Mercedes go deeper than just that ad: You'll be able to download a GLA to drive in the all-new Mario Kart 8 game.
Mario Kart quickly became a pillar of mass-appeal video gaming when it made its 3D debut on Nintendo 64. Now it looks like the upcoming 8th rendition for Wii U will revisit some of those 64-bit race tracks we knew and loved in the glossy glory of modern graphics.
What's the point of having a new discussion system like Kinja if you can't address the biggest issues? We played the real life Mario Kart and it was kind of great, but it's not the greatest Mario Kart. Make your argument below.
Everyone who's played Mario Kart secretly wants it to be real. Sure, flinging turtle shells and banana peels at other cars will probably get you arrested, and while I once did go karting after eating some shrooms, I can't say it helped my speed. So I was exited to try real-life Mario Kart at SXSW. Here's what it'sâŚ
You think you're too cool for South By Southwest, the annual tech and music conference that takes over Austin, Texas for two weeks? Then I have four words for you: Real Life Mario Kart. Nothing could possibly be better than that.
I love Mario Kart! You love Mario Kart! If someone you know doesn't love Mario Kart, you should cut them out of your life immediately. But while the karts are great, have you ever wondered what a real-life Mario Kart racing series would look like?
We have a love/hate/tequila-fueled relationship with the Fast and Furious films. They're fun, though they are mindless and have drifted away from their car movie focus as of late. Those geniuses in Taiwan who animate their news have a solution for this: add Mario Kart to Fast and Furious 7.
Remember when every other video you saw was a parody of the film Downfall? It's not over yet and somehow we missed this particular version that puts Hitler in a Mario Kart to do battle with Hermann Fegelein. It is ridiculous, and the amount of time that went into it is slightly disturbing.
Now, this is exergaming with a purpose. Modder Brent Smith of Canada rigged an old exercise bike with some sensors, switches, transistors, and the indispensable Arduino microcontroller, turning the whole thing into a Super Nintendo controller for use in Mario Kart.
To mark the release of Mario Kart 7, Nintendo commissioned West Coast Customs to build life-size replicas of Mario and Luigi's actual karts from the game. Do they actually drive? Of course not they actually do drive, and they are capable of making grown men smile like little boys.
The dudes from Japanese car site Cliccar get out of their boring civvies and got dressed up as Mario and Luigi. Then, they hopped in two street legal X-Karts and took to the avenues and boulevards of Tokyo.
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