Middleweight racers are good all around racers with middle of the road attributes. Lightweight racers have quick acceleration and excellent handling, but have slow top speeds and are easily knocked around. The playable characters by category are: Lightweight This mode will display a ' ghost' of the best time, which is a translucent recording of the previous best lap. Time Trial has a player racing against the clock. Versus allows friends to race together on any of the single player tracks, and battle allow players to fight in large arenas using items. Versus and Battle mode allow players to compete with up to four of their friends via split screen. If they achieve all gold trophies in all the cups in each difficulty, they are rewarded with a new title screen. The 16 tracks are divided into 4 cups, and the player is tasked with racing these cups to win trophies. The Grand Prix mode has four difficulties, 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, and Extra, each progressively faster with more difficult opponents, or in the case of Extra, mirrored versions of all of the tracks.

These attributes affect how each character handles. In each of these modes the player chooses from 16 race tracks and 8 playable racers, each of which have different attributes such as speed, acceleration, and weight. The game is separated into four play types, Grand Prix, Versus, Battle, and Time Trial. The drifting mechanic is performed by hopping and turning in mid air which allows a player to take sharp turns without losing speed, and if done correctly one can obtain a speed boost. Items are scattered in rainbow colored boxes across each track and as the items in each box are random and potentially very powerful, they add a certain level of uncertainty to each race.

More experienced players will be able to use drifting and Mario themed weapons and items such as Turtle Shells and Mushroom Boosts to get the advantage over their opponents. Gameplay Bowser in Mario Kart 64Īt its most bare-bones, Mario Kart 64 only requires the player to press the accelerate button to drive and use the analog control stick to control the kart's direction. The game was a huge success, selling millions of copies and eventually became a Player's Choice title. The characters, however, remain 2-dimensional sprites.

Mario Kart 64 made the leap from Mode 7 to full 3D computer graphics, which allowed for complex track designs. It is the sequel to Super Mario Kart for the SNES and features characters and track locations from the Mario universe. Mario Kart 64 is a Mario themed go-kart racing game developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, released in 1996.

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