okay ,
MARIO KART!!!!!!


i love nintendo , and have done since i graduated from an acorn electron.

still love marios (all)

but mario kart is king .
any opinions , or am i just an8 year old trapped in an aging mans body??
peace


geeep

Not at all but u mean mario kart on the snes i hope and not the 64 or wii versions.

my son loves it, hes 6, but im sure he'll love it when he grows up too...

the snes one was the best highgrower ,
you're right ,
BUT the ds remake is good for the bus journeys ,

and the wii ones good too.
Just DONT use the wheel.



peace

Couldn't agree more in my humble opinion Mario kart is one of if not THE greatest game franchise there has been, the SNES and DS's are both real fun.



But got to disagree with you here highgrower, not played the wii version so I can't coment but I think the N64 version has it's place.

I also like (and don't shoot me!!!) the slightly disliked double dash on the cube, me and my old flatmate would go in the same "team" and whoever was in the back would be smoking, haha, was tricky but once you got it down was fun. I don't think theres been a "Bad" mariokart yet.

mariokart is the only game that made me physically sick after a few minutes ..even now i cant look at the screen when my boy plays it ,thankfully not very often

snes mario kart and legend of zelda/link to tha past




im 35 years old



how sad is that

have played this on most versions i love it i have the wii and the wheel rocks
whip ass online with it well untill i have to race on a rainbow that just plays with my head

Have just dug up my old snes - only ever bought 1 game - Mario Kart - for it other than mario land which came with it and a 'borrowed' street fighter II - dunno the 3d versions of mario kart - u just cannot do the 'perfect' lap with them in the same way as the old snes version - maybe im just too old to get the whizzy graphics and analogue controls etc but i remember the old wooden atari with games like pitfall and that tennis game with the really weird paddle things - now im really showing my age - and your all forgetting tetris on the gameboy.

And zelda on the NES ahh now that was many wasted afternoons spent - snes version was fucking class to.

Dunno the megadrive/saturn never appealed in the same way as nintendo - probably the crappy pads (just remembered what the nes pads looked like ).

I enjoyed it, it was a knockout game when it came out and the original has stood the test of time for sure. I love the Wii version, my missus bought it a while ago and I like it.

enjoy..

choose a category in the list on the left
http://www.1980-games.com/us/old-games/nin...o/car-games.php

http://www.pacmangame.net/

Anyone remember alex the kid? think it was built in.

The crocs were so cool - balancing on their eyes - wonder how many peeps here had to google for pitfall?

use to have pitfall tournaments back in the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay..........well back in the dayS when i was 7 years old.

back to mario, wasn't every single main mario title an absolute event...including the N64 one which was groundbreaking in its own right, i even rate it and Galaxy up there with Super and Bros.

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Used to play doubles on battle mode mario kart on the old school Snes with brother and all mates ! also used to do fastest lap times on bowser castle / sky roads / ghost valley etc

world cup striker , NBA jam , Zelda too, street fighter etc etc loads of top games

Alex the kid on master System : there was a few different versions i think !! 'in miracle world' and others i think

Paper Scissors Stone

peace all

Yoshi's Island sucked donkey dick tho.

Well found screen shot!

Dunno about galaxian i think space invaders did top that - how old am i that was my first computer game i think i played along with pac man

I meant mario galaxy

Some will call it sacrelidge but i hated Galaxian. First game was some pre 2600 tv game system - a tank command style thing, only other one i remember early on is some forrest based text adventure on Spectrum 48k before Horace goes skiing came out.

After that the classic are er.....Chucky Egg, YieArKungFu, BruceLee, AtticAttak and of course Manic Miner/JetSetWilly.

Ahh Chucky Egg and JetSetWilly old old skool - u remeber a spy game 2d platform thing as well?
Kick off 2 on amiga, new zealand story and that 4 player kungfu game was class
xenon on atari st nice graphics but fucking impossible same as rtype, speedball/rollerball? was a laugh
sim city on amiga/st was class too
civilisation and railroad tycoon or dune (pre command and conquer series) are i think the pc classics

e2a - we are forgetting elite from bbc to st through to pc.

I love the wii mario cart, but then i've liked all the versions. Bastard rainbow road track!

Whilst we're nattering about old school games, how many of you lost hours from your lives playing tetris? And all you win is a shuttle taking off! When i have to pack band equipment into cars and vans, i always seem to make it fit, whereas band mates cant. I put this down to hours of tetris abuse as a child, teen, young adult...

Oh yeah. Lemmings... Now that was a game...

Omg how did i miss that one!

You didnt use your blocker quick enough and now 40 odd lemmings are tumbling to their deaths...

Oh not forgetting them, just havent mentiond them yet!

Could have been Spy vs. Spy there was a 2d and a 3d version, well three dimensional drawings. I liked most of the Bitmap Borthers titles, had thousands of Amiga games i couldnt pick a favourite, obv. Kick Off was insane! Remember the Amiga tried to invent a mascot to rival Sonic and Mario and they came up with (silly)'Putty' and it was unplayable!!

Lemming might have kept me awake longer than any other game in history.

By all means list some more..................might get the C64 out tomorrow

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I can hear their little crys.....eeeeeee

Definately .. original nintendo had its Zelda and Link too which were incredible journey's. As long as we're on about the Nes how about Spy Hunter? Did any of you play Mega Man or any of the series? (great game) Snes.. absolutely classic games .. Final Fantasy 2 & 3 ... Secret of Mana, Populous, Mario Kart... classic... yes absolutely. Zelda.. amazing. The classic games are so good. My wife is addicted to Mrs. Pacman.

As with movies and fine wines, sometimes the older one's are really better.

e2a - anyone ever play Blaster Master for Nes? Castlevania? Bubble Bobble?

mario kart on the snes

that game never turned off the tv when i lived with a couple of my mates ..a hole year of winner stays on every night till it got light sometimes...
some nights there would be 4/5 bods all wanting to win shouting screaming at each other


i can still here the banter now when you had to hand over the controller or managed to stay on all night

happy days

me too , both classics


nice links G



Mario 64 was unbelievable . I remember hiring a n64 from london rd in brighton with student card as id . The game was so good we never gave it back !!!!

Class , i remember coming home from dos on Sunday afternoons and just looking at building and treetops , working out which blocks will fit . Dunno if that was tetris addiction , or the aftereffects of the night before



Bubble bobble and bomberman up there with mario and the karts imo



Its weird isnt it how iconic these games are , but nowadays , MANY folks just disregard nintendo gaames as 'kids stuff'


peace out
mario fans

Can't see why people wouldn't like Mariokart on the 64, i thought it rocked especially in four player battle mode. Always loved nintendos myself, in fact i had to buy a 2nd snes as i missed it so much when i sold my first one.

Remember when you thought starfox looked ace???

I've said am a fan of the 64 version, I think it has its place just like all of them, I'm even a condoner of the gamecube mariokart.

Must have shoved thousands of 50p's into the coin op bubble bobble, i remember the cheat to make you start with fast shoes, L, U, L, P1, L, U, D, P2 when the demo starts on the first level!! WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Bomberman was class in it's own right used to play 4 player with a multitap

KC - indeed, only us ninten-snobs are being snooty about Mariokart64, its was a classic also but for a different generation!

Anyone else get two telly's two PS's put the telly's back to back and play deathmatch DOOM?

That was amazing at the time!

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Good i wasnt the only one - classic until a pissed off player chucks the controller at u!

ReverendRFB - mentioned populous as well that was epic.

gradius/nemesis/r-type was also a favourite of mine
and bomberman was also a great series

I loved alex the kid in miracle world, im sure it was built into my master system. When you died IIRC you could press and hold up and tap 'b' quickly you would get a continue.

Loved mario kart on the snes, also love it on wii.

Kung Fu Master on the Atari 2600, used to have lots of fun on that. Massive game with 5 levels. Then start the game again, same levels double the enemies.

Golden Axe was great.

Anyone used to spend hours on World Cup Italia '90.

Moving up the years Metal Gear Solid on PS.

If we are movin gup the years i think there is only one GTA

A friend had it and we played it solid - he went on holiday i borrowed it and played the next level from our joint saved game on first night with it - fucking was the last one was so gutted.

I did! Much later, when my mates and I had to get jobs to pay for drugs, I started a graphic design business. Memories of deathmatch doom had stuck for all of us, so I got 3 PCs linked up and running Unreal tournament. Like paint-balling without the burning legs and burn-like bruises.

I only had a nintendo for a short while when I was a kid. My brother nicked it and swapped it and his TV for a Raleigh Tuff-Burner. The bastard.

How did I miss this thread.

Mario Kart on the SNES, greatest multiplayer game ever (grand prix mode and battle mode). Closely followed by Super Bomberman. Unirally was great fun too. You can keep all your high definition, 3D, style over substance modern guff. So modern games look good, big fucking deal, most of them wouldn't know decent gameplay if you drew them a fucking diagram (in 3D, high definition, with exploding bodyparts). Wow, you made a great looking game, unfortunately you forgot to put in the fucking FUN.

But Nintendo just make kids games blah, blah, blah. If gratuitous violence and swearing is your idea of an adult game then I suggest you grow the fuck up.

Edited to add and may I just say that Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most important figures (in fact probably THE greatest) in the history of videogaming

Maybe it's just me then, I hated the sega megadrive (the sound was woeful) and I hate the whole Mario franchise, partly due to Nintendo/Bandai's marketing strategy for the UK, ie rip the arse out of it pricewise compared to the rest of the world. Speedball 2 on the Amiga, brilliant sound and gameplay - "ice cream! ice cream!". I think the 4 player karate game mentioned earlier was IK+? And was it not Zool was the Amiga's answer to Sonic, etc? My son likes his DS though and wants a Wii now as well. I guess I just preferred computer games rather than console games, but short thumbs means I can't use a pad properly.

It was made as an 'answer to' Sonic, but neither would have existed without Nintendo, who invented the entire platform game genre with the arcade machine Donkey Kong (designed by...... yup, you guessed it - Shigeru Miyamoto). The first appearance of a certain diminutive Italian plumber called Mario, originally called simply 'jumpman'. It was also the very first game to use cutscenes to develop the story, just one more innovation that Miyamoto-san brought to videogaming.

I always hated platform games though - any game that uses a jump button too often doesn't get played - hence my dislike of the Tomb Raider series - who wants to spend hours listening to some daft bitch screaming all the time ffs? Aaaaarrrrggghhh!

Looking at the bigger picture, though, the fact is that Nintendo (and more specifically Shigeru Miyamoto) are probably more responsible than any other entity for modern videogaming. Love them or loathe then, without them there wouldn't be modern gaming as we know it. Not bad for a company that began in the 19th century making playing cards.

Take your word for it Boojum - I don't seem to get as much enjoyment out of gaming these days anyway, or anything else ftm, so it's probably just me tbh.

Off topic, but from that and other posts you've made tonight/this morning, it sounds to me like the hallmarks of depression

Edited to add sorry, don't mean to stick my nose in, but having had a fair bit of experience with it, it sounds like the familiar effects of the presence of the Black Dog.

Cheers for the concern Boojum appreciate it friend. Aye, the old black mutt is never far away am afraid. Sorry to put a downer on the boards, I should probably take it for a walk. I may be some time...

Best way to exercise it (and perhaps exorcise it) is to talk about it, bottling it up just makes it stronger

Mario kart - SNES - Battle mode - map 4 - Koopa Troppa...

Used to be so good at this match no friend or family would play me in the end,

Used to beat them like 62-4 some days.

Any one used to watch Gamesmaster?, loved that program.

Mrm

Was good to see a videogame prog on telly, but Dominik Diamond was a cock.

My cousin owns the Gamesmaster helmet got it at some daft auction in the centre of london.

'ellow gamesmawstaaahhhh!'

Was and still is - pops up in some lame late night programs every now and then - think he has tried to become some kind of journalist - dont think he was ever able to throw the association with gamesmaster tho.

Fuck knows how they got Patrick Moore to appear in it - must have offered him some massive telescope or a trip to space with pan am (was still going then wasnt it?)

Yes thats true, but they tried to give the amiga a mascot and that was 'Putty' but it failed dismally, the game being a steaming unplayable turd didn't help.

The original proposed mascot was Tiki the kiwi from new zealand story but Taito wouldnt hand over the rights to commodore as they were developing the arcade version of NZ2 at the time. They did however bundle the first amiga's in a NZ Story pack the name of which escapes me. Probably NZ Story pack