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Mario Kart 64 took the Super Nintendo racer's drifting and built courses that climb, drop, and hide shortcuts for four players on one television. A shortcut you learn on a couch still decides a cup, because the catch-up is weaker than in later karts.
Nintendo EAD made it for the Nintendo 64, with four-player split screen as the feature living rooms actually used. Wario and Donkey Kong joined the roster. Items like the blue shell, new here, punish the leader in a way the first game did not.
Rainbow Road, Yoshi Valley's maze of bridges, and the train on Kalimari Desert became the tracks people memorized. Because there is no rubber-band catch-up as strong as later entries, a good shortcut still decides a cup.
It is the second Mario Kart. The later games on GameCube, Wii, Wii U, and Switch each have their own pages, including the Wii U and Switch editions that reuse some of these ideas without being this cartridge.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
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