Super Mario kart (Snes) : Appreciation thread

Haggler

Deemed one of the greatest games of all time Snes (1993)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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*Note*
If you owned and played this game on another format feel free to post within
this thread regardless, alternate formats won't be getting a separate thread as
that would be overkill, just mention the format you played it on when posting.

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Haggler

Post all your recollections and classic gaming moments of this awesome game here, it was and still is one of the best games ever made, relive those memories within this thread.

Anyone wishing to submit a review for this game please do so, i'd be glad to link to it at some future stage, everyone else post those stories of gaming heaven Super Mario kart related of course.

Ideas for posting could include :-

How much you paid for the game?
Did you pay over the odds for an import release to get it early?
Was it worth the money?
Did you do a midnight game collection on day of release?
Did this title influence your decision to buy it's associated system?
How has it stood up to the test of time?

Alongside the usual game play and game content discussion, which is always welcome, the possibilities are endless.

Theydon Bois

One of the greatest SNES games of all time?

Pur-leaaaasssseeee.....

One of the greatest games of all time!

Durp durp deeeep!

Oh the time spent playing Mario Circuit 1 of the Mushroom cup over and over and over with Toad and ghost running. If memory servers me right, 49 seconds was the fastest with Bowser or Kong but they had a high top speed with poor acceleration, where Toad had good speed but not at the top end. I had a time of around 52. And this was from magazines, as the intermaweb was not even a twinkle in Tim's eye.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant. Play it occasionly on SNES emulator on my big tv, but the old feel good factor kicks in, and you want the feel of the cartridge and the intamacy that a 14" CRT huddled over your SNES can bring.

Will I Am

Although I've enjoyed nearly all the Mario kart games that have been released since (with Mariokart Wii being the best of them), none of them come close Super Mario Kart on the Snes.

When I first started playing it at 11 years old my two older brothers convinced me that Toad and Kooper were the best characters because of their acceleration. I was behind them in terms skill for a while but once I got better at them I started playing with different characters to give myself more of a challenge. I ultimately settled on Bowser and was pretty much unbeatable by anyone that I knew at the time. I used to really p!ss my brothers off!

The best video game ever.

In fact I'm going to get it on the Wii Virtual Console and enjoy some nostalgia.

Stuby101

This is still my favourite game of all time - 24 years on, its still the cause of most of the arguments between me and my brother