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Review: Mario Kart 64 – Frantic, Formative Four-Player Karting Chaos

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This review originally went live in 2016, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of N64 games on Nintendo Switch Online.

Taking a bunch of Mario characters and having them speed around race circuits using a range of special items to rush or smash past each other is something that has worked very well since the Mario Kart series began in 1992. The Mario Kart series are amongst the most enjoyable games on whatever platform they turn up on, and many people buying Nintendo hardware look forward to inevitable karting action. Wii U and Switch have the brilliant Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe), of course, but the series’ frantic four-player local multiplayer got its debut way back in Mario Kart 64.

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