The Orange Belt Mario Kart is Totally Sweet Thread

AgentcelAgentcel
edited December 2007 in Games
Oh-ho! What's this?

Well, all you need my friends, is an internet connection, a Wii, a wireless router, and some cash!

Today, Nintendo gave us the ability to give away Virtual Console games!

I propose we do a secret santa- style gift exchange!

Simply post a list of VC games you'd like, and we'll draw names! Whoever you get, we'll e-mail their name to you via PM. Pick a game on their list, and tada!

My list:

1. Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels
2. Paper Mario
3. Mario Kart 64
4. Super Metroid
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Comments

  • DrLeopoldStrabismusDrLeopoldStrabismus
    edited December 2007
    Well, like...seems to me you could just buy a game you want for yourself, and everyone else could do the same. If you're just going to buy someone a VC game and they also buy you one. I'm just saying you could purchase the one on the top of your list instead of them maybe probably buying the one you might want the least.

    It would be a good idea if you're doing the actual secret santa program to maybe throw a VC game in there, but don't give anything away before hand! I mean, come on!
  • mariomario
    edited December 2007
    I was going to say something similar. Of course, the same could be said about any Secret Santa exchange, but in this particular situation you have a pretty damn good idea of what you're gonna get.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited December 2007
    Well, sorry for another failure thread @_@.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2007
    A valiant attempt Agentcel. My experience is that Secret Santa exchanges aren't really all they are made out to be though.

    As for your games list, those are great games. Have you played them all before?
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited December 2007
    None of them, but that's why I want to.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2007
    *Does a spit take (but not really)*

    NONE!? The real Lost levels is probably no big deal. Paper Mario was a game that I liked but some others didn't so much and I could forgive not playing it. Super Metroid on the other hand is definitely a good game that I don't play enough considering I own the cartridge. Not playing Mario Kart 64 is tantamount to heresy. I highly recommend it and consider it the best in the series.
  • geokogeoko
    edited December 2007
    Agreed on most accounts, except i like double dash better than 64.
  • deku12345deku12345
    edited December 2007
    I liked 64 the best solely because in battle mode, the first person who died became a bomb-omb on wheels that tried to ram other players.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2007
    Things missing in double dash-
    jumping
    circle-of-shells
    towing a powerup

    Also, the karts have a little better control than most of the double-dash karts.
  • mittensmittens
    edited December 2007
    Double Dash has endeared itself to me with the bomb battle. Brilliant.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited December 2007
    I like a good game of Anticipation.
  • TriremeTrireme
    edited December 2007
    Double Dash remains, to this day, the most screamed at game that I know of. Double dash can get so intense when your two teams of friends are comparable in skill. Both karts will near the finish line and everybody is focused on beating the other team when someone Slams the other kart off the course! It’s like a whirlwind of “OH MY GOD!!!” “YESS!!” “WHY DIDN’T YOU USE THAT ITEM!!?” Because both you and one of your friends are so invested in one kart, everybody is yelling at each other to either release the red shell at the right moment or cursing the other team for sending a chain chomp down an ally! Because I’ve only played it with my same group of friends, I sometimes wonder if anyone else has ever felt the uproarious craze that MKDD can be sometimes. My friends and I tried to play all four separate karts once and it was like a snooze fest compared to the hijacks of co-op play. I still am huge MK64 fan, but Double dash totally changed how I look at Mario kart sessions with friends.
    Needless to say, I’m greatly anticipating the arrival of Mario Kart for the Wii.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited December 2007
    Serephel and I have had our share of scream fests over Double Dash. I have quite fond memories of those times.

    I'm told it's nothing, though, compared to Mario Kart DS.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited December 2007
    Double dash was so much fun that I would invent new profanities on the spot. Some were quite good.

    And Behemoth and I have countless fun memories of playing Mario Kart DS throughout Japan. Screaming profanities there is better, because a lot of the time the people around you don't know why these gigantic Americans playing video games are screaming.
  • godgod
    edited December 2007
    Whenever our school has assemblies, I can usually get a game of Mario Kart DS going to keep us entertained. I think theres some kind of talent show or something next week, where everyone is put on the gym bleachers and forced to watch people's inane little performances when I could be back in shop playing Melee, so thats a good oppurtunity to play.
  • brucebruce
    edited December 2007
    Mario Kart DS online however is enough to make you want to jump off a bridge. Most little shits log off right away if you win and/or snake across the course.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited December 2007
    Stupid snaking. It sucks ass racing against three Yoshis in the egg cars doing that.

    I've only beaten one person on that online, because I refuse to snake, and the guy I beat was doing each course backwards.
  • SilverwardSilverward
    edited December 2007
    Snaking ruined online play for me. I'm positive that snaking, while not a glitch, was never intended as the sole method of playing.
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited December 2007
    Explanation, please.
  • mariomario
    edited December 2007
    Wow, that was very hard to find information on. For reals.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited December 2007
    I changed the title of the thread, yay!
  • mariomario
    edited December 2007
    But... the thread doesn't start out as a Mario Kart discussion at all!
  • brucebruce
    edited December 2007
    Dude, didn't you listen in the other thread? Classical economic theory.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited December 2007
    Playing Super Mario Kart nowadays looks so freaking strange.
  • brucebruce
    edited December 2007
    It is quite slow too.
  • hlavcohlavco
    edited December 2007
    The SNES computers cheat! They did on 64 too, but that was forgiveable!
  • illithid235illithid235
    edited December 2007
    Well of course I could have just looked it up online, but I like talking to you guys.

    I don't really have any friends anymore...
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited December 2007
    I just got mariowned.
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited December 2007
    How? Did he do something?

    Also Super Mario Kart was a good game in it's day. But the 64's 3rd Dimension is what really brought life to the game.

    And I've never really needed to do much of that "snaking" business on the 64. I haven't had a chance to play the DS version. I know it really isn't easy or even helpful to do the snake thing on a staight path in 64, so I'm a bit confused why this is a big deal in DS suddenly.
  • AgentcelAgentcel
    edited December 2007
    Yeah, he changed the thread title.

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