WATCH: Two Gorgeous Japanese Mario Kart Commercials

   August 9, 2022  Posted in Featured Videos
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Beginning with the release of Super Mario Kart in 1992 for SNES, Mario Kart quickly became one of Nintendo’s most beloved series. With its familiar characters, whimsical style, and intensely competitive nature, these games manage to strike a chord with players of all ages.

However, unless you lived in Japan during the late 1990s and aughts, there’s a good chance you missed these region-specific television commercials for Mario Kart 64 and Mario Kart: Advance (known elsewhere as Mario Kart: Super Circuit). Utilizing a sleek Japanese art style, these clips contain arguably the most impressive Mario animations to date. Other markets received commercials with twisted, off-the-wall humor commonly found in ad campaigns from the time.

If you’ve never had the pleasure, do your eyes a favor and take a moment to appreciate these brief but fascinating videos. It’s the type of thing that will make you long for a Mario anime series that never was.

Mario Kart 64 Japanese commercial from 1996
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Mario Kart: Advance (aka Super Circuit) Japanese commercial from 2001
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Author: Justin Casey
A North Texas native, I was born in '80s and grew up '90s playing a hefty amount of NES, Sega Genesis, and SNES. Some early favorites include Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Road Rash II, and Super Mario World. As the 3D revolution took hold in the late 1990s, my interest in video games waned while my interest in music grew. Then around 2007, I started recollecting some old favorites which led to discovering classics I missed out on. The casual hobby snowballed into a full-blown obsession, and it became my mission to make up for years of lost gaming.
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