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Original Release: Nintendo, 1996, Nintendo 64
Other Releases: iQue (2003)
This was the first series entry to move things to a full 3D environment.
Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64, Nintendo, 1996)
Where to Buy: Amazon
How to Emulate: coming soon!
Review by: C. M0use
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This one admittedly had some of the loosest and most slipshod play control of the series, but we still had a whole lot of fun with it back in the day as it was the first console racer to have split-screen four player racing. With a used copy of Double Dash being not much more than this $10 download, however, I have to question the point of bothering with it.
Additionally, issues with the emulation are present – the Virtual Console doesn’t emulate the N64’s controller pak, so you can’t save ghost data. Were you not playing on a system capable of handling the best version of Mario Kart, and were not said best version easy to find and dirt cheap, I might recommend this just for its multi-player action, but it seems rather pointless now doesn’t it?
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