


Since then, Mario Kart has become one of Nintendo's most successful properties and has sold in excess of 160 million copies worldwide across all titles. As you might expect, when these same nay-sayers actually got to play it, they changed their tune. Sure, Mario had appeared in other games, but his forte was 2D platformers – he had no place on the racing track, and Super Mario Kart was initially viewed as a questionable attempt to shoe-horn the famous mascot into a genre where he simply didn't belong. Enjoy!īack when Nintendo announced the very first Mario Kart game in the early '90s, there were some in the industry who proclaimed it as a sign that the veteran firm had finally lost its marbles.

Don't agree with the order? Feel free to get rating your game collection and potentially influence the ranking below. Remember, this dynamic ranking is governed by every entry's User Rating on our database and is subject to real-time change, even now. Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Watch on YouTube Mario Kart Wii is now 15 years old, so we're republishing this list of the Best MKs (that's Mario Karts, not Mortal Kombats, natch) as a reminder of where the first online home console entry ranks in the Kart-ing canon.
