#mario kart 8

[ultimashadowx]

Moo Moo Meadows

[mariokart8wiiu]

My idea for a Mario Kart 8 themed sword

[suppermariobroth]

In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, certain obstacles do not affect racers if they are not driving at a specific minimum speed.

As it is in the interest of most players to be driving at the maximum possible speed at all times, this can create the illusion that the obstacles simply harm the racer on contact, but they can be passed through harmlessly simply by slowing down.

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[illusioncanthurtme--art]

FUNKY KOOOONGGG!!!! 😎🍌 This guy shows up, and there is a ZERO percent chance of you being the coolest person in the room. This drawing is a commission that I got permission to make into a print!! I'm really happy for it too - I feel like I kind of went out of my comfort zone with this drawing (*ahem* bike *ahem*), but I'm super happy with how it turned out! Plus I got an opportunity to draw MONKEE!!! again, and a very handsome one at that 😳 I'll never forget the sound of this guy passing me in mario kart lmao... YYEEUGLELEKLREELELYEAA!!!!!!

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Neo Bowser City (aka Koopa City in PAL regions)

Debut: Mario Kart 7

Do you ever think of all the weird locations we only ever see in Mario Kart games? Despite being the biggest of all of Mario's spin-off franchises, when you really get down to it, remarkably few Mario Kart courses are actually based on established Mario locations!

It's not none, there's the occasional Donut Plains and Tick-Tock Clock and Airship Fortress, but most of the courses are these weird one-off locations we never see outside the context of that specific racetrack.

But have you ever taken a moment to step back and like, think of the Lore Implications of some of these places?

Like okay! Bowser just owns this whole dang cyberpunk city and we only ever see it in the context of Kart Racing! How messed up is that?!

One day Mario and Friends were looking for new places to race, and Bowser must have said something like "Gwah-hah-hah! I bet you puny punks could NEVER beat me in a race in my cyberpunk metropolis!" and right then and there it was established that Bowser owns a cyberpunk metropolis. Neo Bowser City is a city that exists in the Super Mario World and aside from returning in other Mario Kart games, it hasn't been acknowledged before or since.

Neo Bowser City first appeared in Mario Kart 7, as the third course in the Star Cup. Despite its flashy visuals, it actually doesn't really have a whole lot going on. It's a difficult track with some tight turns made more difficult by the rain making things more slippery, but besides that it doesn't really have any of the Wacky Obstacles that define so many Mario Kart courses.

Then it returned in Mario Kart 8 looking more gorgeous than ever! The bright colors really pop out, and the whole track is just oozing with detail that really emphasizes the scale of this city!

But like, the emphasized scale really only further raises the question of where this exists in the Mario World. Clearly, the fact that Bowser is plastered all over the billboards and the fact it's named "Neo Bowser City" helps us deduce that this city probably belongs to Bowser. Is this located in Bowser's Kingdom? Just how big is Bowser's Kingdom? And why does he own so many separate castles?

Maybe Neo Bowser City exists in the future? Is this a bad timeline? I mean, Mario Kart is allowed to have time-travel shenanigans. There's a Splatoon battle arena and that exists thousands of years in the future so sure, dust off Mario's Time Machine and head to the bad future where Bowser wins. Should've pressed that New Super Mario Bros. big yellow P-Switch!

I asked my friend Mod Chikako for their input and their theory is that Neo Bowser City isn't the future of Mario's world, but of our world. Clearly Bowser just couldn't take Wreck-It-Ralph losing the Oscar vote!

But in that case I guess it's a cooler cyberpunk future than the one we're living in right now. Corporate monopolies that run mass-surveillance with little government intervention due to their extreme wealth giving them extensive political power? No thank you! Neo Bowser City has bright neon colors, and flying cars! If I'm going to live in a dystopia, I want it to be a fun one. The only advertisements I want to see plastered everywhere are ones advertising Bowser!

Boo! That's the bad guy! Thumbs down!

The course returns again in that pitiful mobile game with another redesign, this time letting us see his Coney Island Disco Palace off in the distance. Does Bowser live in his Neo City? Is this worldbuilding we've been missing out on for decades, finally answered by a kart racer? Is this the capital city of Bowser's Kingdom? Am I once again falling victim to my perpetual hubris of overthinking the Mario franchise?

Really, I can't offer too much in terms of wacky fan theories, because I'm still thinking about this location existing in the first place. I'd love to know the Lore and worldbuilding here, but I guess the nature of Mario's canon is that it doesn't need to be over-analyzed. Bowser simply owns a cyberpunk metropolis, we'll only ever see it in the context of kart racing, and maybe that's okay.

Of course, this post wouldn't be complete if I didn't mention Dinohattan from the 1993 Super Mario Bros. Movie, which we've barely talked about on this blog somehow. You see, when the meteor hit, some of the dinosaurs escaped into a parallel timeline where they then evolved into humans, and then they built Dinohattan instead of Manhattan. Get it? Yeah, that movie is all sorts of bonkers. I wouldn't say it's very good, but I kinda love it. I'd recommend checking it out, if only to see a vastly different take on Mario than you'd be used to.

Anyway I bring this up because it's a completely separate instance of a version of Bowser building a large cyberpunk metropolis, and it actually predates Neo Bowser City! Do you think they could be connected? Are Dinohattan and Neo Bowser City one and the same...?

[letsallgotothelobby]

All DLC Mario Kart racers have now been revealed

[una-tutuga]

This has been a really speachial month, don't you think?

(Art by nintendo, edit by me)

[uesp]

Todd Howard has revealed that Skyrim has sold more than 60 million copies. This has put Skyrim into the top ten best selling video games of all time. The current list is:

Minecraft (238,000,000)

Grand Theft Auto V (180,000,000)

Tetris (EA) (100,000,000)

Wii Sports (82,900,000)

PUBG: Battlegrounds (75,000,000)

Mario Kart 8 (62,250,000)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (60,000,000)

Super Mario Bros. (58,000,000)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (53,000,000)

Overwatch/Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (tied at 50,000,000)

[paulthebukkit]

The age of Smash Speculation is over. The time of Mario Kart Speculation has come

[kinopeachy]

pink gold peach slays on the red carpet!

[video-game-jams]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Wii Rainbow Road

[hedgehominoid]

[siirenfangz]

THE GIRLS GOT CAUGHT SPEEDING‼️‼️ in hindsight, i should’ve put coconut mall but both are very silly tracks lol

some close ups💟:

[suppermariobroth]

In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, the Goomba stacks on the Mario Circuit track have a limit of 118 Goombas per stack. Above are two Goomba stacks of maximum height.

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[jeffpennington]

Waluigi is kind of a sore loser…

[nintoonerart]

After nearly 10 years, Birdo is playable in Mario Kart 8 😊