11 Influential Video Games That Have Aged Horribly
8. Super Mario Kart
Back in the day, Mario Mario was just an unassuming plumber with a ridiculous name recruited to help save a kidnapped princess.
Fast forward a little, and he's a gaming icon who has competed in the Olympics (not the real ones), played golf, tennis, and found some fame on the racing circuit as a world-class kart driver.
If you spent the intervening time in a coma, you'd be understandably confused as to how this small mustachioed Italian man who rarely changes his clothes has achieved such heights of success.
It all started with Super Mario Kart.
Taking the characters from a popular platformer and injecting them into a racing game wasn't the norm back in 1992, but Nintendo did it anyway.
The result was a craze that has never stopped growing, Super Mario Kart marked the beginning of the Mario franchise's expansion, something that's still going strong today.
However, if you go back to play the title where it all began, you're in for a disappointing time. Compared to its more recent counterparts, Super Mario Kart is dull and lacks many of the features of gameplay that the series has adopted since.
You're much better off starting with Mario Kart 64 and working your way forwards from there.