Mario Kart
The most entertaining/aggravating thing about Mario Kart is coming to the classic card game.
Blow your warp whistle and hop on this whirlwind tour of all that Universal Studios Japan’s newest section has to offer.
Universal Studios Japan also gives hints about Yoshi ride, Bowser Jr. boss battle attraction, and punching park’s question mark blocks.
Attempt to keep the go-karts running on Tokyo roads raises embarrassingly low amount of money.
Beautiful selections from Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda, and more stir the heart and the nostalgia too.
Intellectual Property High Court slams the breaks for the company once known as “MariCar.”
Electropop outfit Galantis and pop singer Charli XCX made a Mario-influenced bop to promote USJ’s latest land!
Either a double dose of caution or passive-aggressiveness against Nintendo has MariCar’s go-carts looking weirder than ever.
The beloved kart racing game will soon be playable even without a Nintendo console.
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Anyone who has ever picked up a controller and squealed around the track in Nintendo’s Mario Kart has probably thought about how amazing it would be to get to do it in real life.
Warm up those throwing arms, because it’ll take more than a button tap to chuck those Koopa shells.
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