{"id":117553,"date":"2020-09-04T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/super_mario_kart_tour_event_starts_next_week_get_ready_to_welcome_back_two_familiar_faces"},"modified":"2020-09-04T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T01:05:00","slug":"super-mario-kart-tour-event-starts-next-week-get-ready-to-welcome-back-two-familiar-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/super-mario-kart-tour-event-starts-next-week-get-ready-to-welcome-back-two-familiar-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Super&#8221; Mario Kart Tour Event Starts Next Week, Get Ready To Welcome Back Two Familiar Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c11c4239df606\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c11c4239df606\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c11c4239df606\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_live_home_circuit\">Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit<\/a><\/strong> wasn&#8217;t the only racer discussed during Super Mario&#8217;s 35th anniversary Direct. In addition to this, Nintendo announced a special new &#8220;Super&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a><\/strong> event fueled by nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>This event runs from 8th September (that&#8217;s next week) until 22nd September and will feature special appearances from Mario (Super NES) and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mariowiki.com\/Donkey_Kong_Jr.\">Donkey Kong Jr.<\/a> (Super NES) from the original <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_kart\">Super Mario Kart<\/a><\/strong> game, which was released in 1992.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Summer Festival Tour is wrapping up in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MarioKartTour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MarioKartTour<\/a>. Starting Sep 8, 11 PM PT, get ready for some nostalgia with Mario (SNES) and Donkey Kong Jr. (SNES) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperMarioKart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SuperMarioKart<\/a> Tour! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperMario35?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SuperMario35<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KUvZAXuXib\">pic.twitter.com\/KUvZAXuXib<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Mario Kart Tour (@mariokarttourEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mariokarttourEN\/status\/1301513489559760899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you would like to get to know these two particular characters a little bit better before this retro event starts, you can always check out the original Super Mario Kart game via the Nintendo Switch Online SNES service.<\/p>\n<p>To see various other recent updates to Mario Kart Tour on mobile, view the game&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mariokarttourEN\">official Twitter page<\/a>. Will you be returning to the track when Mario and Donkey Kong Jr., arrive next week? <em>Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit wasn&#8217;t the only racer discussed during Super Mario&#8217;s 35th anniversary Direct. In addition to this, Nintendo announced a special new &#8220;Super&#8221; Mario Kart Tour event fueled by nostalgia. This event runs from 8th September (that&#8217;s next week) until 22nd September and will feature special appearances from Mario (Super NES) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}