Mario Kart Super Circuit
- July 03, 2001 14:59 PM PST
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Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Princess get revved up to return as the Kart-racing Klassic that started it all gets?Advanced.
Mario Vs. the Thingy from TwinbeeIf tooling around the track as Goemon the Mystical Ninja, Nyami the Pop?n Music Cat, or the giant stone head from Gradius?as endearing as he is?is gettin? old quick, fret not, mascot racing fans?Mario Kart is just ?round the bend. The perennial Nintendo favorite featuring Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom regulars (minus cult icon Koopa Troopa) hits the Game Boy Advance at the end of August. While it?s most clear cousin is the SNES classic that started it all, Super Circuit bears a few surprising similarities to the N64 edition that popped up a couple years later.
Almost everything in Mario Kart Super Circuit will be instantly familiar to Kart veterans across the board. The single-player mode gives 3 speeds, 5 Cups with 4 races per cup, and the same point-based tournament structure. Power-ups and weapons from ghosts to lightning have made the jump intact, and the speed-up coins from the SNES version (that never made it to the N64) have even been reintroduced.
On the Rainbow Road Again
The preview version of Mario Kart GBA played fast, smooth, and?most importantly?felt just like its predecessors, with only a few minor instances of hard-to-gauge twists in the flat scaling SNES-style tracks; and the game boasted surprisingly well-animated characters and detailed, unique backdrops. 4-player races and the Battle Mode make a return as well?and although you can link up 4 GBAs with only one Mario Kartridge, you?ll need each player to have their own copy of the game if you want to have access to all the tracks.
