Mario Kart
| Mario Kart | |
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The current logo, used since Mario Kart DS.
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| Genres | Racing |
| Developers |
Nintendo Intelligent Systems (Super Circuit) Retro Studios (Mario Kart 7) Namco/Namco Bandai (Arcade GP series) |
| Publishers | Nintendo |
| Creators | Shigeru Miyamoto |
| First release |
Super Mario Kart August 27, 1992 |
| Latest release |
Mario Kart 8 May 29, 2014 |
Mario Kart (マリオカート Mario Kāto?) is a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed and published by Nintendo as spin-offs from its trademark Super Mario series. The first in the series, Super Mario Kart, was launched in 1992 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System to critical and commercial success.
There have been five Mario Kart games released for home consoles, three portable games, and three Namco co-developed arcade games, for a total of eleven. The latest title in the series, Mario Kart 8, was released on Wii U in May 2014. The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide to date. An enhanced version and remake of Mario Kart 8, entitled Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, will be released on the Nintendo Switch in April 2017.
The first title in the Mario Kart series is Super Mario Kart and was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992. The development of the first game was overseen by Shigeru Miyamoto, the Japanese video game designer who helped create the original Super Mario Bros., as well as many other successful games for Nintendo. Darran Jones of NowGamer suggests that the original success of Super Mario Kart was the result of including characters previously seen in Mario Bros. games, while also being a new type of racing game.
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