* Mario Kart 64, a video game for the Nintendo 64 features a racetrack called Kalimari Desert

* Super Mario Kart ( 1992, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Console )

* Mario Kart 64 ( 1996, Nintendo 64, Virtual Console )

* Mario Kart: Super Circuit ( 2001, Game Boy Advance, 3DS Virtual Console )

* Mario Kart: Double Dash ‼ ( 2003, Nintendo GameCube )

* Mario Kart DS ( 2005, Nintendo DS )

* Mario Kart Wii ( 2008, Wii )

* Mario Kart 7 ( 2011, Nintendo 3DS )

* Mario Kart Arcade GP ( 2005, Arcade ) ( Co-developed by Namco )

* Mario Kart Arcade GP2 ( 2007, Arcade ) ( Co-developed by Namco )

Hideki Konno, the series producer, has stated that he hopes to release a Mario Kart game for Nintendo's upcoming games console ; the Wii U. Konno said that he wanted to create " a new and enjoyable game that uses the unique function of Wii U ", He also added that he'd never considered adding other franchise characters into the series.

Several Mario Kart-related items appear in the Super Smash Bros. series, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl in particular featuring a stage based on one of Mario Kart DS < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > courses.

* Peach Circuit, a racing course in the Mario Kart video game series

The first game of the Mario Kart series, it was launched in Japan on August 27, 1992, in North America on September 1, 1992, and in Europe on January 21, 1993.

Super Mario Kart was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on June 9, 2009, North America on November 23, 2009, and in Europe on April 2, 2010.

In Super Mario Kart the player takes control of one of eight Mario series characters, each with differing capabilities.

Super Mario Kart received positive reviews and has been praised for its presentation, innovation and use of Mode 7 graphics.

Several sequels to Super Mario Kart have been released, for consoles, handhelds and in arcades, each enjoying critical and commercial success.

While some elements have developed throughout the series, the core experience from Super Mario Kart has remained intact.

Super Mario Kart is a kart-racing game featuring several single and multiplayer modes.

In order to start a race in Super Mario Kart, Lakitu will come in with the traffic light hanging on the fishing pole, which starts the countdown to the race.

Single player Mario Kart GP mode.

Super Mario Kart has two single player modes, Mario Kart GP and Time trial.

While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

He played another villain, King Koopa, in Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ).

The game would later be a pack-in game, being a dual game pack with this game and Super Mario Bros., and later a triple game with the same two games plus World Class Track Meet.

In the Action Set configuration of the NES in the late 1980s, Duck Hunt was included with Super Mario Bros ..

A Power Set was also available, which included the Action Set, the Power Pad and a 3-in-1 cartridge that included Duck Hunt, World Class Track Meet and Super Mario Bros.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Upon making this breakthrough, Carmack and Hall stayed up late into the night making a replica of the first level of the popular 1988 NES game Super Mario Bros. 3, inserting stock graphics of Romero's Dangerous Dave character in lieu of Mario.

When Romero saw the demo, entitled " Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement ", he realized that Carmack's breakthrough could have potential, the team that would later form Id Software immediately began moonlighting, going so far as to " borrow " company computers that were not being used over the weekends and at nights while they designed their own remake of Super Mario Bros. 3.

In the Super Mario Bros. video game series, the character, Morton Koopa, Jr. was named after him.

* A playable character in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, a 1996 adventure / console role-playing game

* A golden rabbit found in Super Mario 64.

In a January 2000 poll of readers of Computer and Video Games magazine, it appeared in 15th place in a list of the " 100 greatest games " ( directly behind Super Mario 64 ).

In 2012, Cruz appeared in the first ever Nintendo commercial to promote New Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Nintendo 3DS XL in which she played the role of Mario in the ad.

Birdo was originally intended to be a male who pretended to be a female in Super Mario Bros. 2.

Numerous obstacles themed from the Mario series appear, such as Thwomps in the Bowser's Castle levels, the Cheep-Cheeps from Super Mario World in Koopa Beach and pipe barriers which are found in the Mario Circuit levels.

All twenty of the original tracks are unlockable as an extra feature in the Game Boy Advance sequel Mario Kart: Super Circuit.

Remakes of Mario Circuit 1, Donut Plains 1, Koopa Beach 2 and Choco Island 2 appear as part of the Retro Grand Prix series in Mario Kart DS, remakes of Ghost Valley 2, Mario Circuit 3, and Battle Course 4 appear as part of the Retro Grand Prix and battles in Mario Kart Wii and remakes of Mario Circuit 2 and Rainbow Road appear as part of the Retro Grand Prix in Mario Kart 7.

The second sequel, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.