{"id":710,"date":"2017-09-26T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/super_mario_kart_nearly_became_f-zero_2"},"modified":"2017-09-26T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:50:00","slug":"super-mario-kart-nearly-became-f-zero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/26\/super-mario-kart-nearly-became-f-zero-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Kart Nearly Became F-Zero 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Super Mario Kart\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/super_mario_kart_nearly_became_f-zero_2\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/super_mario_kart_nearly_became_f-zero_2\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Mario Kart\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mario Kart is easily one of Nintendo\u2019s biggest franchises, absolutely nailing the local multiplayer gameplay and providing an easily accessible experience for all to enjoy. It stands as a cornerstone of Nintendo\u2019s portfolio and plays no small part in selling new hardware for the company; there\u2019s a reason <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> launched as early as possible on the Switch. As part of its ongoing series, Nintendo recently published an interview with the developers of the original <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_kart\">Super Mario Kart<\/a><\/strong>, and interestingly enough, the game could\u2019ve easily taken a much different form.<\/p>\n<p>The initial idea for the game was to make a two player <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/f-zero\">F-Zero<\/a><\/strong>. However, due to hardware limitations, they couldn\u2019t design F-Zero tracks that would work with two players and still fit within the hardware restrictions, so winding, meandering courses were made to fit the console\u2019s memory. This led to a slower pace for the game overall\u2014which is where the karts came in\u2014and the development team soon added in Mario because he was easily recognizable from the back. It\u2019s an interesting interview to be sure, you can find the full thing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/super-nes-classic\/interview-super-mario-kart\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? What\u2019s your favorite Mario Kart? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Kart is easily one of Nintendo\u2019s biggest franchises, absolutely nailing the local multiplayer gameplay and providing an easily accessible experience for all to enjoy. It stands as a cornerstone of Nintendo\u2019s portfolio and plays no small part in selling new hardware for the company; there\u2019s a reason Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launched as early [&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-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}