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I was eight years old when I first played Super Mario Kart. The Super Nintendo title was fast-paced and chaotic, and I spent untold hours racing around the Mushroom Kingdom, dodging banana skins and koopa shells in frantic split-screen battles against my friends.
Over the years, the Mario Kart series has revved its way across generations of consoles. While it has inspired a string of knock-offs and imitators, no video game has come close to matching its furious, frenetic, and gloriously slapstick approach to racing.
Now, a recently released board game attempts to recreate Mario Kart’s high-octane excitement on your tabletop. Can it succeed?
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Source: Ars Technica – Crazy Karts is the closest board games have ever come to Mario Kart