I asked 3000 people to give every Mario Kart game a rating from 1 to 5, and today we’re finding out which games are the most and least popular! From Super Mario Kart to Mario Kart Wii to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, there have been a whole lotta Mario Kart games. And today, we’ll rank them once and for all!
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Mario kart 7 was your first mario kart? Damn, I'm getting old.
How is Wii not Number 1?!
MK DS wasn't the first for online capabilitie. That was MK Double dash with the broadband adaptor
I don’t think the controls and such were the issue with mk mobile. They werent ideal but they were ok for what they were going for. The biggest problem was that it wasn’t actually multiplayer. They tried to give the illusion that it was but it wasn’t. This removes a huge main aspect of Mario kart. This has always been a multiplayer game. That was it’s main focus and they removed that. Then on top of that You have the micro transactions and for me, being banned numerous times when I wasn’t even cheating. My phone is jailbroken though so I get banned automatically for that. Definitely killed my interest in trying to continue playing.
Mario Kart Wii is the worst MK and Double Dash is the best change my mind
The one time I played Mario Kart 8, I joked it was the day I was doing old things the modern way. I was playing a 25 year old series on the newest system while watching Monty Python on Netflix and drinking hot tea from a Keurig machine. It was a very enjoyable although weird day as in my normal life, I don't own a Switch, have Netflix or a Keurig machine.
96 tracks is rookie numbers if you include MKWii's fan tracks which are in the hundreds
I played the arcade one it was pretty good and I had a good time with it
I want to start this with, I am an absolute Mario Kart Fanatic, I have been playing since Super Mario Kart. I own every single Mario Kart game ever made except for the Arcade Game. The fact that Mario Kart Wii came 2nd place shows what demographic watches your content. Mario Kart Wii is the 3rd worst Mario Kart ever made, the 2nd worst is Live and the absolute worst is Mario Kart Tour. Mario Kart 8 is good but drifting takes zero skill so that makes it the 3rd best. Graphics aside, Mario Kart Double Dash is the 2nd best, and 64 is the GOAT.
7:10 – Super Circuit doesn't "sound better" than SMK at all lol
Sonic riders is better .
ds being that high is wild to me, I'm so nostalgic for the game but im very critical about it: about 5-6 good tracks in the game and awful retro tracks, I still love the game but it being above games like DD and 7 is wild to me
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Me too, Mk7 was my childhood, but you know, my main childhood was MkWii
Yeah I have to agree that Super Mario Kart would be ninth place because if you tried playing that game in 100cc, it is impossible for new players to beat. You can’t drift like the future Mario Kart games right now and you lose lives if you’re placed 5th to 8th place which is so unfair, and they don’t give you the best items to help you win the game making this game totally outdated. I used to play this game as a kid back in the years but when I grew older I grew old and tired playing that game.
Mario Kart Wii is bad. Why? Because the rubber branding is crazy.
I was expecting tour to get above snes, mainly because it did in fact introduxe some amazing courses that people love in the booster course pass, namely, ninja hideaway, merry mountain, piranha plant cove, squeaky clean sprint (even though that was released for the bcp first), and piranha plant pipeline, which surprisingly didn't make it into the bcp.
Now, I may actually be biased here, but I love mario kart tour, and would give it a 4. The reason I'm a bit biased is because I've been playing the game ever since it came out, before multiplayer was added to everyone. Of course I actually managed to play the game mostly without paying at all. I did get the gold pass one time for a couple months, because I got an apple gift cad for christmas, but I mainly played for free. It was actually last year that I spent the most time in the game, because I started to actually get good stuff. I actually also like the controls. They can feel wonky at times, but they work for a mobile game. Sure, it could've been better if nintendo added controller support, but the controls are still fine. A big reason I love mario kart tour is that it changes every 2 weeks. The courses change, and so it just has a lot more single player replayability. I mean, most of the replayability in mario kart 8 is the online multiplayer, which not everyone can get. While tour does require internet to play, at least you don't need some subscription to play it. Of course another aspect I love about it is the sheer amount of characters. When I say tour has a ton of characters, I mean even more than you think. Tour actually brought us a lot of amazing costumes to the mario character, and even made poochy playable for the first time ever! Overall I think tour is a great game, and deserves more credit than it gets. I think people just play it for a bit, and think it's boring, or only tried it a couple years ago, when it genuinely wasn't a great game. If you play it now, it's actually much much easier to get rubies (the currency) for free, and they removed the main pipes, and replaced it with a shop to allow you to choose the drivers you want (in a rotation selection anyway).
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I understand you eventually can't outdo yourself with a new game and sometimes DLC since it's optional can be seen as less of a cash grab, but I can't help but feel like MK8 is just that, a cash grab. It's been out since the early 2010s and only renamed with the word Deluxe (thus actually making people buy the same game twice) and only has very periodically added tracks and characters most of which being very recent and of course all being charges to the ol' credit card. All together you're paying upwards of $100 easy for this game and if you factor in buying it twice over the years you could very well go over $200 I'm sure. With that type of investment I'm not sure I can say with a straight face that this game offers too much more than previous titles considering you got most if not all the content with 1 purchase with the other games. I'm personally not even a huge fan of racing games but I did grow up playing Mario a bit and seeing that the current Mario Kart is the same as it was when the Wii U was new is a bit disappointing.
My ranking:
8. Super Mario Kart, I respect it but that game aged horribly and isnt really that fun to play these days, I'm not a fan of 2D racers in general. I realize it was the best the SNES could do for it though.
7. Super Circuit, same problems as Super Mario Kart but it controls slightly better, it being portable was also cool for the time, overall I don't really like it though.
6. 64, It sorta holds up, I'm not of fan of the drifting though, I also wasn't a fan of it not letting you progress if you got below 3rd (the previous three did that too, I hated that, you could still get first in a cup even if you bombed one of the races.) I like it.
5. 7, I dont know what it was about this, it just felt more generic compared to Wii and DS, still a really fun game though.
4. Double Dash, my first Mario Kart, very nostalgic and still looks and controls great, I think this was the first Mario Kart to truly age well. It also got rid of that stupid system where it would hold you back if you came in under third.
3. DS, This was an extremely good game, crazy that a portable one managed to be the best at the time.
2. Wii, DS but better, excluding not being portable but eh, I rarely played portable systems outside my house anyway so I didn't care.
1: 8 Deluxe, it looks great, the amount of courses are insane.
I actually have played some of the arcade games but I don't remember them well, I also tried Tour but hated the controls and dropped it after like 6 races so I won't rank these. I also don't really have the money or space for the R/C one.
The people who voted low for mktour clearly played the game in its 2 weeks and then never touched it again. It has VASTLY improved since then and is in my top 5.
MarioKart Tour is way better of a game than anyone gives credit for. There are over 200 unique tracks, including a few that have never been seen in other versions (such as Piranha Plant Pipeline), and the sheer number of unique characters and karts is unbelievable. You get used to the controls. If you ignore the absurd costs of the microtransactions, and forgive the forgettable battle mode, the game is fantastic in every other way. I'm so disappointed that everyone is still stuck to the negative first impressions they got from the way the app was at launch. I bet if they tried the app now with an open mind, they'd have a different opinion.
MarioKart 64 was the first one I owned/played. I still enjoy it but Tour and 8 obviously blow it away from a modern standpoint.
Fr why is half this comment section saying mkwii shoulve been #1 because if the controls and the other half saying it shoulve been the worst because of its controls? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, PEOPLE!!!
Interesting. Imo MKWii is overrated, while MK7 is underrated. It all boils down to the same reason… balance of skill and RNG. MKWii is too chaotic and luck reliant, while MK7 was the first one where skill mattered so much more than luck. Something which MK8 perfected. MK7 really does feel like a prototype of MK8 which automatically makes it the second best entry imo.
This is my ranking
1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Beautiful graphics and amazing track selection
2. Mario Kart Tour
So many characters, karts, gliders to choose from and new/returning tracks from across the series
3. Mario Kart DS
Have to put it in my top 3 cause it's the first Mario Kart I played growing up and some favorite tracks like Cheep Cheep Beach, Luigi's Mansion
4. Mario Kart Super Circuit
A good selection of tracks with different themes in 2D
5. Mario Kart Double Dash
I don't see the hype in having 2 drivers and the controls are weird. But some decent tracks
6. Super Mario Kart
Hard to control and just basic track selection although it is where it all started but had to put it here
7. Mario Kart Home Circuit
Ya Idk why it's even included in the video although I do like the concept
DS is my personal favorite simply because of how incredible it was for the time and includes many of my favorite courses.
WHY IS MK8 IN FIRST LAKITU DOES NOT EVEN LET YOU DO THE SLIGHTEST OF SHORTCUTS
I have never understood why Mario kart ds is so high in this list. The tracks were not that good, the graphics were awful and we didn't have many customization options…
Mario kart 7 is better but always underrated 🙁
DoubleDash is my favorite, it was so unique and fun!!
Gotta do mario kart double dash 2 and add prince florian and nabbit
11:55 I tried MKDS myself a few weeks ago, could not get into it, the Drift system is absolutely flawed.
I love merio kart