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Did You Ever Stop Racing and Just Explore Mario Kart 64?

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Mario Kart 64 was more than just a racing game for a lot of us.

It was Battle Mode with friends on the couch. Blue shell arguments. Trying to land impossible shortcuts over and over again. But sometimes, I’d stop racing completely just to explore the tracks.

I’d drive toward Peach’s Castle in Royal Raceway, follow the train tunnels in Kalimari Desert, sit inside the cave shortcut in Koopa Troopa Beach, and wander around random corners of maps that had nothing to do with winning the race.

This video goes back to Mario Kart 64 on the Nintendo 64 and revisits the classic N64 tracks, hidden details, shortcuts, strange locations, and childhood memories that made this Nintendo game feel so special.

🏁 Mario Kart 64 nostalgia
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🎶 Music Credit:
“Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast Remix)” by Ricky Rombo
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0:00 Intro
2:13 Luigi Raceway
3:50 Koopa Troopa Beach
6:12 Kalimari Desert
8:00 Frappe Snowland
9:20 Sherbet Land
10:23 Royal Raceway
12:12 Bowser’s Castle
13:51 DK’s Jungle Parkway
16:04 Wrap Up
18:11 Outro

20 Comments

@FrostyTheTerminator 4 months ago

For me it was peach’s castle, I had this delusion that if you went to the castle you would start playing Mario 64 lol

@adamsaldana5462 4 months ago

The stuff we did without Internet

@kartgal 4 months ago

Not being able to drive into the castle was pretty sad

@ZachAttackIsBack 4 months ago

We only had a few games to play back then. Eventually, we were so bored that we quit racing and went exploring.

@FourthDerivative 4 months ago

This made up probably 50% of my late-night Mario Kart sessions with my friends. Just driving around randomly, looking at stuff. The vibe was incredible.

@Mike-nf6nf 4 months ago

Page 32 of the Mario Kart 64 manual for Jungle Parkway: "Be careful -- should you leave the course, the restless natives will "voice" their complaints by throwing stones at you."

😂

@MarvinLandeskog 4 months ago

The Peach's Castle in the map blew my mind. I had Mario Kart before Mario 64 and an older brother or siblings friend or someone told me that if you get a lap ahead on 150cc and gold mushroom into the door it loads up Mario 64, I tried so hard to glitch through that barrier to see the famous castle interior.

@soldirix2666 4 months ago

I found banshee boardwalk interesting because it always felt like there was more in that haunted mansion than the track let on.

@Rabki 4 months ago

This game is the exact reason I was so happy to see Mario Kart World ! I always loved exploring tracks in Mario Kart 64 and later 8dx, so a whole game allowing to do this was a dream come true !

@uss_04 4 months ago

Daddy Kong Racing promoted so much exploring, I never felt like I fully explored everything. Especially star city.

@rorinverlain 4 months ago

2:04 That brought back an intense wave of nostalgia.

@bluefirekid 4 months ago

That was the fun of early 3D games back then as a kid, the worlds just felt so "big" and mysterious. And you sometimes do get rewarded for testing your curiosity.

@CoolPorygon 4 months ago (edited)

My friends and I would do this in a lot of games, MK64 included. We specifically called it "playing around". If we launched a multiplayer game, it always started with "are we fighting or playing around", "let's play around". Idk why "explore" didn't reach our vernacular.