Here We Go! 20 Best Mario Kart Tracks Of All Time
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Mario Kart is one of Nintendo's most popular franchises, now having appeared on every major platform since its inception on the Super NES. Nintendo has capitalized on its smashing success by consistently offering Switch holiday bundles that include Mario Kart 8, which has helped turn it into a best-seller on the platform with tens of millions of units sold. Nintendo is once again offering a Mario Kart Switch bundle this year, releasing October 6.
Every Mario Kart game injects a fresh dose of new racetracks, and that means there are a lot of tracks across the entire franchise--many of which have been revisited in later games with remastered versions and in the ongoing Booster Pass tracks for MK8. There's some truly stellar track design throughout the series history, and we're here to celebrate the best of the best. Here are the 20 best Mario Kart tracks across the entire series.
Lots of Mario Kart tracks have been based on the classic Ghost House stages, but none of them did it quite so well as Banshee Boardwalk. The N64 Ghost House stage is full of sharp corners and rickety plans that create odd gaps, making the whole thing feel chaotic and dangerous. Boos fly around the stage to give it some ambiance, but they mostly leave you alone. Maybe they're just as afraid of go-karts as they are of eye contact.
The OG. There's nothing flashy about this very basic Super NES track. It's just a handful of turns delivered with the choppy beauty of Mode 7 on a green field. But it was the first track of the first Mario Kart, and that gives it a certain degree of
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