Mario Kart Wii

Wheel accessory plus 12-player online made kart racing one of the best-selling games ever.

Released 2008 Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Platform Wii Genre Racing Era Digital storefronts & indie Website nintendo.co.jp ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Mario Kart Wii inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Split-Screen Simultaneous ~~1984~~Internet Client-Server Play ~~1996~~Automated Skill Matchmaking ~~2004~~Spatial Motion Input ~~2006~~

The Mario Kart series in this dataset

1992

Super Mario Kart ~~1992~~

1996

Mario Kart 64 ~~1996~~

2008

Mario Kart Wii ~~this page~~

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