The best Mario Kart games (that aren’t Mario Kart)

The best Mario Kart games (that aren’t Mario Kart)

By Andrew Willliams

Everyone loves Mario Kart. But, particularly these days, not everyone has a Nintendo console.

Maybe the Nintendo Switch will change all that, after all stranger things have happened in the last decade of gaming.

In case it doesn’t, here are 10 of the best Mario Kart alternatives. We’ve included ones released around the time of the very first Mario racer back in the 90s to others that popped-up over the last few years.

What brings this band together are slide-y “kart” physics, and prioritising fun over the driving-glove wearing tricks of the more serious racers out there.

Year: 1994

Platforms: Commodore 64/PC

A little bit of wacky goes a long way. Wacky Wheel’s brand of wackiness is thankfully less irritating than a “you don’t have to be mad to work here but it helps” poster and boils down to silly sound effects, and using a bunch of different animals for its racer characters.

Wacky Wheels is a bargain basement Mario Kart impersonator, but there’s an enduring charm to its stripped-back style. That we remember playing the …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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