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Super Mario Kart

Item-based rubber-band racing on a rotating ground plane created the whole kart racer genre.

Released 1992 Developer Nintendo EAD Publisher Nintendo Platform SNES Genre Racing Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

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

Same-Screen Two-Player 1972Split-Screen Simultaneous 1984Checkpoint Respawn 1984Rotating Ground Plane 1990

The Mario Kart series in this dataset

1992
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