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Kart racing

You race karts around fantasy tracks with simple, forgiving handling, and pick up items along the way to attack your rivals, defend yourself or gain speed, so positions can change right up to the final corner.

Also known as: kart racer, kart racing game, go-kart racing, cart racing game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1992
    OriginSuper Mario Kart

    Power Drift (1988) already featured go-kart racing, but Super Mario Kart was the first to add combat within races and is the one that popularised the genre.

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  2. 1999

    Crash Team Racing starts Crash Bandicoot's series of kart racing games, which grows to many titles.

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  3. 2008

    Mario Kart Wii, like Mario Kart DS (2005) before it, is among the best-selling kart racing games.

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Reference games

1992

Super Mario Kart

Nintendo EAD. Super Nintendo

Kart racing with Mario characters on fantasy tracks, where besides driving you pick up items to attack or defend yourself. It has a two-player split-screen mode.